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		cercatrova on Aug 25, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Removal of Heroku free product plans Did Heroku use containers? I seem to remember it didn't since back in the day.

bjt on Aug 26, 2022 | [–]

I scoured the internet for the answer to this question years back and remember the answer being that they were using LXC containers, at least on the Cedar stack. This was a little bit before Docker launched.

josegonzalez on Aug 25, 2022 | [–]

Heroku implemented their own container system and expose it to end users as a "Dyno".

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