Heroku Platform

We used the Heroku Platform in the organisation to deploy the in-house applications as well as client projects.

it helped us expedite the deployment of small applications specially MVPs.

It eliminated the need for managing infrastructure.

Heroku Platform also provides automated backups, access controls etc. that helped us maintaining reliability and scalability.

Overall it s a secure, cost effective solution for a rapid deployment of the applications.

• Apps launch quicker, saving time and cost.
• Easy scaling Helped handling traffic spikes without downtime.
• Becomes expensive with more dynos or larger databases
• Features are limited compared to other platforms

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Google Cloud Platform

Atlassian Jira, Microsoft Visual Studio, Axure RP

Heroku runs the back end of our virtual mentoring platform that facilitates our education programs. It allows for email notifications to be sent to users, and all of the other back-end servers and operating systems to seamlessly work together to run the platform. It is an essential part of our programming and we chose it purposely when we rebuilt the platform entirely.

• Communication features that allow our platform to automatically communicate with users.
• The different apps within Heroku allow you to track and monitor in different ways.
• Reports of issues that are occurring on the back end.

• It has been critical in seamlessly operating our platform with runs all of our programs.
• It has been impressive with its ability to scale quickly which results in the growth of our work.
• It allows for tracking of different features which allows for quick problem solving which saves us time.

AWS Auto Scaling

GoodHire, Amazon Web Services, Google Workspace (formerly G Suite)

Heroku is becoming an average platform with poor support [in my opinion]. Since the acquisition, [I feel] Heroku has put aside engineering quality. Additionally, the support people, [not] only they are not helpful, [I believe] they actually are giving completely [inaccurate] and dangerous advice. Our database has been under attack for days. Heroku support has been telling us there is nothing to worry [about] despite very suspicious Postgress 28000 errors, from external services (bots) trying to hit and get access to our database. I am still waiting for Heroku to tell us how to best solve this or at least how to change the name of our database with no disruption. In the meanwhile, our website is struggling with the consequences of this 'force brute' attack. [I would] not trust Heroku's support advice.

• Speed
• Reliability

• Speed

Twilio, DigitalOcean, Sendinblue

• 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

Codeship, GitHub, Travis CI, Slack

• We deploy many many services with almost zero ops and DevOps.
• The minimal learning curve for developers.
• High service reliability
• Easily create services including integration with external services.

AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Microsoft Azure and Kubernetes

Kubernetes, RabbitMQ, Algolia, Node