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Heroku has long been held up as the gold-standard platform as a service (PaaS) for software developers to easily deploy their code without having to worry about the underlying infrastructure, while others see it as akin to a magical fallen civilization with a limited future.
“The history of IT is littered with platforms people thought were fantastic that don’t exist anymore,” said James Governor, a founder of the developer-focused analyst firm RedMonk. “It had a good run and a huge influence, but nothing lasts forever.”
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Heroku’s architectural limitations and the high cost of running a business on the platform have historically hindered its ability to truly scale beyond a core set of web 2.0 customers, but there is still hope that Heroku is setting itself up for a glorious second act.
Tathra RFS benefits as 8,000 new recruits join NSW Rural Fire Service after last season s fires
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DecDecember 2020 at 8:43pm
Amanda Shane, second from right, is joined by new recruits Jade and Katrina Hansen, to her left, and Melinda Renwick.
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If summer brings its blazing fury to New South Wales again in the coming weeks, it will be met with a freshly fortified Rural Fire Service, strengthened by an extra 8,000 volunteers ready to fight fires across the state.
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The fire-fighting power of the NSW RFS has been bolstered by the biggest yearly intake of new recruits in the service s history