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Sorry -- I assumed too much knowledge. Cloud Foundry is really not at the point where it can replace Heroku. Its 80% of the way there, but every needs a different part of the last few % so you can expect to have to add to it based on what you need.



> Cloud Foundry is really not at the point where it can replace Heroku.

I'm curious what Heroku still does that CF can't.

As another person who is building infrastructure on Cloud Foundry like Lucas, I am biased, and don't quite agree with you.

I think from a user perspective, you can do as much with CF as Heroku.

Architecture wise, you can't compare CF to Heroku because its closed source. Heroku could be even more overblown and complex than CF for all you know. And even then, a PaaS by nature is sort of complex.

Administration wise, CF still has a ways to go. It isn't the easiest to deploy and manage, docs need work, etc. But that isn't something that is user facing or comparable to Heroku.




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