In a company I used to work for, "sustaining engineering" was the team of developers that handled all of the bugs and issues reported by customers on old-but-still-technically-supported versions of the products. (The ones who worked on current versions of the products where just "engineering.")
replySo basically heroku will fix whatever is broken, but don't expect any new features or development.
From a business perspective, this means they will not be investing in innovation on the platform anymore. Instead, they will focus their efforts on maintaining the current operations and keeping the lights on.
replyHeroku has been running in this mode for a long time. The only difference is they made it official.
replyFrom a business perspective the have brought it out to the field with a shotgun.
replyAs opposed to the relentless innovation they have demonstrated in the past 5+ years? /s
replyI am sure that the guy whose name is on the Post didn't even write this himself. Probably some corporate writer using LLM :).
replyI would love to see the prompt that led to that word salad
replyCould have just said we will Keep the Lights on
replyThis reads more like "we won't deliberately turn the lights off… but they're probably gonna break on their own eventually".
replyThe lights will stay on until they burn out or the power goes off, or someone bumps the light switch or steals the light bulbs.
replyWe've been optimizing for decades to engineer the bullshit-generating super-soldiers required to craft modern PR statements.
replyIt's like PBS, they are going to beg for your money now with a sustaining engineering membership
replySurely it's a typo and they meant "sustainable"?
replyOtherwise IMO such an odd word choice. Definition:
>> providing physical or mental strength or support
Sustaining is used in Engineering to mean that it's now post-GA and there is no further development. The platform is not End of Life but there are no more features planned.
replySustaining as in sustaining their shareholders.
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