Competition in the PaaS sector has grown fiercer in recent years, with companies like Porter, Railway, Render, Fly.io, and Clever Cloud vying for a slice of Heroku’s business with compelling capabilities and tooling. Wise made efforts to engage with the developer community, posting a public roadmap of Heroku’s features and soliciting suggestions for improvements.
His departure is certain to have an impact on Heroku’s efforts to claw back market share. Salesforce has yet to announce plans for a replacement.
Relatedly, Heroku is still without a CPO after its previous CPO, Andy Fawcett, moved back to the U.K. to assume the role of VP of developer relations.