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Replit moves infrastructure from Heroku to Google Cloud

Replit has completed its migration from Heroku to Google Cloud Platform to better support its mission of onboarding new software creators. The process involved several stages, including prototyping, migrating Postgres and Redis databases to GCP, and finally moving the front-end application. The migration required meticulous planning and multiple practice runs to minimize user downtime, with two 15-minute maintenance windows used to switch over the databases. AI

IMPACT Minimal direct impact on AI operations; focuses on web application infrastructure migration.

RANK_REASON This is a technical migration story for a specific company's infrastructure, not a new product release or major industry shift.

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Replit moves infrastructure from Heroku to Google Cloud

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  1. Replit blog TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    Migrating our Web App from Heroku to GCP

    After many years of running on Heroku, Replit has fully migrated to Google Cloud Platform. Why leave Heroku in the first place? Heroku served us well, but ultimately we recognized that our mission to bring the next billion software creators online would require an entirely new ap…