Overview
What is Heroku Platform?
The Heroku Platform, now from Salesforce, is a platform-as-a-service based on a managed container system, with integrated data services and ecosystem for deploying modern apps. It takes an app-centric approach for software delivery, integrated with developer tools and workflows. It’s three main…
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Great for startups
Great for early stage products
Amazing value for a freelance/contract application web developer
A great option for your initial deployment!
Heroku: perfect platform for agile teams!
Almost Zero Learning Curve!
Heroku Helps Us Get Things Done
Heroku most developer-friendly platform
Perfect for small projects
Heroku Makes Back end Management Simple
Heroku, a solid cloud-offering from Salesforce
Beginner to moderate, it will be your Hero-ku ;D
The easiest platform as a service Rails app hosting solution that our developers love using
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Popular Features
- Upgrades and platform fixes (43)8.484%
- Scalability (43)8.383%
- Platform management overhead (42)7.676%
- Platform access control (42)7.070%
Pricing
Production
$25.00
Advanced
$250.00
Entry-level set up fee?
- No setup fee
Offerings
- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Starting price (does not include set up fee)
- $85 per month
Features
Platform-as-a-Service
Platform as a Service is the set of tools and services designed to make coding and deploying applications much more efficient
- 7.6Ease of building user interfaces(26) Ratings
Ability to build flexible user interfaces using drag-and-drop tools
- 8.3Scalability(43) Ratings
Ease of scaling up or down to meet demand
- 7.6Platform management overhead(42) Ratings
Resources required to keep platform up and running
- 8.3Workflow engine capability(29) Ratings
Process automation using rule-based engine
- 7Platform access control(42) Ratings
Rules controlling what data different user categories can access
- 8Services-enabled integration(41) Ratings
Ability to integrate with cloud applications and data via APIs and pre-built connectors
- 8.7Development environment creation(38) Ratings
Ease of creating new development environments
- 8.6Development environment replication(37) Ratings
Ease of replicating new development environments
- 8.2Issue monitoring and notification(41) Ratings
Integrated monitoring and notification of issues and problems
- 8.4Issue recovery(38) Ratings
Ease of recovery from problem state
- 8.4Upgrades and platform fixes(43) Ratings
Ease of deployment of major upgrades or problem fixes
Product Details
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What is Heroku Platform?
The Heroku Platform, now from Salesforce, is a platform-as-a-service based on a managed container system, with integrated data services and ecosystem for deploying modern apps. It takes an app-centric approach for software delivery, integrated with developer tools and workflows. It’s three main tool are: Heroku Developer Experience (DX), Heroku Operational Experience (OpEx), and Heroku Runtime.
Heroku Developer Experience (DX)
Developers deploy directly from tools like Git, GitHub or Continuous
Integration (CI) systems without the need to manage infrastructure.
The web-based Heroku Dashboard makes it possible to manage applications online
and gain visibility into performance.
Heroku Operational Experience (OpEx)
OpEx helps developers troubleshoot and remediate issues and
customize the ops experience to identify and address trends in application health. Heroku provides a set of tools to alert teams if something
goes wrong, or to automatically scale web dynos if the response time for web
requests exceeds a specified threshold.
Heroku Runtime
Heroku runs apps inside dynos—smart containers on a fully managed runtime
environment. Developers deploy their code written in Node, Ruby, Java, PHP,
Python, Go, Scala, or Clojure to a build system which produces an app that's
ready for execution. The system and language stacks are then monitored,
patched, and upgraded. The runtime keeps apps running without manual
intervention.
Heroku Platform Competitors
Heroku Platform Technical Details
Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Unspecified |
Mobile Application | No |
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Reviews
(1-5 of 5)Heroku most developer-friendly platform
- Opensource (with extensive documentation)
- Innovative (cutting-edge web technologies, latest versions of programming languages, tools, services, integrations)
- Focused on speed and scalability
- Free pricing plan and pricing in general
- Experimentation
- Heroku requires installation of Heroku CLI tools locally.
- Ease of building user interfaces
- 100%10.0
- Scalability
- 100%10.0
- Platform management overhead
- 70%7.0
- Workflow engine capability
- 100%10.0
- Platform access control
- 90%9.0
- Services-enabled integration
- 100%10.0
- Development environment creation
- 100%10.0
- Development environment replication
- 100%10.0
- Issue monitoring and notification
- 100%10.0
- Issue recovery
- 100%10.0
- Upgrades and platform fixes
- 100%10.0
- Familiarization with latest web technologies.
- Reducing deployment costs.
- Automation.
- OpenShift and IBM Cloud PaaS (formerly IBM Bluemix - PaaS)
- Price
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Product Reputation
- Vendor Reputation
- Microservices
- API
- Integration
- n/a
Beginner to moderate, it will be your Hero-ku ;D
- It makes deployment, environment configuration, and simple manageability extraordinarily simple and easy to do, and getting up and going is a wonderfully simple process.
- The metrics included are excellent as a first resource for diagnosing high level issues.
- For beginners, Heroku is an excellent tool, making initial deployment and environment configuration wonderfully easy and fast.
- Heroku is absolutely fantastic on the mobile break point (mobile responsiveness). As a startup, things still happen on weekends while out at the park or driving out of town, and it has been wonderful to be able to troubleshoot or restart servers from the phone.
- The Heroku CLI provides a wonderful interface for interacting with the cloud environment.
- Heroku does not provide static IP addresses. For most applications this is not a concern, but in particular cases, especially around explicitly sensitive data, this makes Heroku prohibitive.
- For a more senior engineer seeking to SSH onto a server and monitor the machine's performance, or extract log files for extensive research, Heroku does not provide a great way to do this.
- Heroku permissions controls could be more granular. For instance, allowing some users to view environment variables while others can not view these.
- Ease of building user interfaces
- N/AN/A
- Scalability
- 100%10.0
- Platform management overhead
- 90%9.0
- Workflow engine capability
- N/AN/A
- Platform access control
- 80%8.0
- Services-enabled integration
- 90%9.0
- Development environment creation
- 90%9.0
- Development environment replication
- 80%8.0
- Issue monitoring and notification
- 70%7.0
- Issue recovery
- 80%8.0
- Upgrades and platform fixes
- 100%10.0
- Heroku has allowed our developers to work on application development, application defect resolution, keeping feature momentum very high. It has, at the very least, postponed the need for a full time dev ops engineer creating deployment packages and managing servers. It lets a small development team get up and going, and keep going, with little upkeep.
- Heroku's ability to dynamically scale at a single click has provided for quick recovery time from unforeseen excessive traffic.
- Heroku's quick configuration of web servers and background process servers lets each developer manage the load of their development more effectively.
- Heroku's documentation is top notch, allowing for any developer to find the answers they need quickly.
- AWS Elastic Beanstalk and Rackspace
AWS provides extensive configuration options, providing a more mature infrastructure, with dedicated resources toward infrastructure, much more control of traffic and components.
- Host our applications
- Provide sandboxes for engineers to quickly develop with business owners through review apps
- Provide metrics on key functionality
- Review apps have been great for rapidly iterating on new features and functionality
- Connecting to the logs for a more real time analysis of operations
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Product Reputation
- Prior Experience with the Product
- Implemented in-house
- Configuration of databases on review apps.
- Heroku CLI allows you to easily interact with the Heroku Dynos as if you were SSH'ed onto a self managed server.
- The activity monitor easily allows you to detect change and watch deploys and even rollback to previous deploys.
- Pipelines and review apps are the best way to get a working prototype into a user's hands without having to commit it into a trunk branch of code.
- The load time to get to environment variables or resources can be long.
Easy Peezy Heroku
- On-demand scalability
- Ease of deployment
- Command Line Interface
- Fail safe when Amazon has problems. I understand that some of the ownership is on us, but we would prefer if we didn't have to resort to another service for backup.
- Ease of building user interfaces
- 100%10.0
- Scalability
- 100%10.0
- Platform management overhead
- 100%10.0
- Workflow engine capability
- 100%10.0
- Platform access control
- 100%10.0
- Services-enabled integration
- 100%10.0
- Development environment creation
- 100%10.0
- Development environment replication
- 100%10.0
- Issue monitoring and notification
- 100%10.0
- Issue recovery
- 80%8.0
- Upgrades and platform fixes
- 90%9.0
- With the easy plug and play addons, it has been no-brainers to choose services that will easily integrate with our application. Choosing Redis, MemCache, and the Scheduler all were obvious choices.
- Scaling web dynos and workers
- Deployment
- Reporting
- Targeting R14 memory quota exceeded error and how to handle them
- What to do when your slug size exceeds the max allowed.
The best place I know to deploy a brand new Rails app
- The tooling is simply amazing. You can deploy your application in some minutes without any prior experience with the platform.
- Their way of building applications encourage you to think about scalability and composability of your app.
- They have a big community around the platform and many add-ons written by third-parties.
- The price is not so affordable when you start growing. For small companies, needing small containers, it works quite well but for large applications, it may be too expensive.
- Scalability
- 100%10.0
- Platform management overhead
- 90%9.0
- Workflow engine capability
- 100%10.0
- Platform access control
- 100%10.0
- Services-enabled integration
- 100%10.0
- Development environment creation
- 100%10.0
- Development environment replication
- 100%10.0
- Issue monitoring and notification
- 90%9.0
- Issue recovery
- 90%9.0
- Upgrades and platform fixes
- 100%10.0
- A lot less time spent with infrastructure tasks
- Less money spent on a staging environment. We can use the free tier with the same app on a different scale.
- A guideline to develop scalable applications in a cloud environment
- Infrastructure management
- Application scale
- Application development
- It's just a simple application. It uses the basic of Heroku and it's works great.
- We plan to use other add-ons. Redis is the next one we're going to try.
- We think about creating new pipelines so new developers can submit code to staging and we can promote it.
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Product Reputation
- Prior Experience with the Product
- Implemented in-house
- Changing the application to use 12factor.net
- The application had to be written to work good on Heroku
- Making the application use less memory and CPU. It was using a big server and we wanted it to use small heroku instances
- Their command like tool is awesome. You can do almost anything there.
- Creating a new database or a new app is fantastic.
- The fact that I can deploy my application by using git push is amazing.
- If you start growing, it's hard to keep the prices low. Everything is so easy to add.
Heroku's neat implementation and great documentation made it a great solution for building web apps
- Integrates with Git and GitHub
- Handles all the infrastructure requirements and lets us focus on development
- Documentation is fantastic
- Requires technical knowledge to use; you need an engineer for the project
- Costs money to scale properly
- Made great use of staff resources; we didn't need to procure any infrastructure or have any infrastructure support
- Supports agile methodology; very short time to market
- Takes care of versioning due to integration with Git
- AWS,GoDaddy
- Deploying a new version of the app
- Provisioning an addon
- Creating a new app
- Upgrading the database plan
- Automatically Setting environment variables
- Load testing