We look at what made Heroku magical, what went wrong, and what Railway learned from it.

Railway Blog

Railway reflects on Heroku's rise and fall as a developer platform, tracing how Heroku's magical git-push deployment experience was undermined by its failure to adopt Docker and open container standards, its structural dependency on AWS infrastructure, and the broader DevOps movement pulling enterprises toward more configurable tooling. Railway positions itself as the spiritual successor to Heroku's developer experience philosophy, built on containers and open standards, running on its own metal rather than reselling another cloud's compute.

Heroku Walked So Railway Can Run