Heroku Platform Reviews and Ratings

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

Small teams and MVPs:

If you are looking for a solution for hosting and deployment of the small apps or MVPs, Heroku Platform is one of the best solution

Easy Deployment:

Heroku Platform is one of the best solution for easy and rapid deployment of the application.

Costing:

Heroku Platform may not be right fit for application that requires scalability as it may be bit expensive. Infrastructure

Control:

If you are looking for a good control of the infrastructure, Heroku Platform may not be the right fit as it come with limitations.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

When you have a platform that needs to function for multiple different users and those who would like to track activity and be able to scale up or down based on usage.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It's used by the R&D to host the production / staging and dev environments across most services.

Likelihood to Recommend

It's amazing for startups with relative small scale that want to run fast and not worry or spend time about infrastructure.

It's less appropriate when you get to a certain scale where you need your infra to be adjusted to your needs. Also when you get to a certain scale and the price just doesn't make sense.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We host all our web applications on Heroku. It was the fastest and simplest way to build our proof of concept years ago, and it has scaled well with us over the years. Good communication from the company on periodic scheduled maintenance, and we've never had an issue with platform reliability.

Likelihood to Recommend

Heroku is great for early-stage products. It's very simple to set up multiple environments in a continuous delivery pipeline, and dozens (hundreds?) of one-click integrations with third party tools make it incredibly easy to experiment with different offerings. We're happy to spend time building our apps, not managing servers.

The convenience does come with a cost, and at scale, it's more expensive than other options we've looked at more recently. Overall, we've been happy with Heroku as a platform.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We're using Heroku Platform to quickly ship our web applications to our customer. Heroku Platform made it very easy for us to do an initial launch of our application quickly and fairly cheaply to start with. Heroku Platform also made it possible to scale our application once it gained enough traffic without much hassle.

Likelihood to Recommend

Heroku Platform is very good if you need to launch your web application quickly at low cost. If you are a startup just starting the business or just need to launch a simple website or webapp that supported by Heroku Platform, Heroku Platform is one of the best choices available. However, if you need a complex web application with a lot of moving gear involved, Heroku Platform might not be for you.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Heroku is the platform in which we deploy our applications. It hosts the backend services and it's dependencies such as databases, message queue platform, etc. Instead of setting up a virtual machine and deploy things manually, with Heroku we just attach it to a code repository and automate the deployment to it. It abstracts the resources units and uses a much easier one named `dyno` which allows a much easier scaling mechanism.

Likelihood to Recommend

I consider Heroku to be an outstanding platform. It is perfectly suited for agile teams that want to quickly develop and deploy their applications without losing time on setting up virtual machines, dependencies and deploying. With Heroku, you can deploy Docker images, code from repositories, and just let it handle it. If at some point your application gets bottlenecked and you need more computing resources then it's as easy as adding another dyno. No need to set up anything, just focus on writing your application code!

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It enables us to deploy quickly and simply. Heroku enables us to get multiple services with almost zero DevOps overhead. We have many different services and many full-stack developers and would like for all of them to be able to create, develop, test and deploy their services with minimal as possible an operational learning curve and set-up.

Likelihood to Recommend

<ul><li>Simple CRUD services that have reasonable scale requirements are very well suited for Heroku.</li><li>Simple task-based services can also work well with Heroku.</li><li>If you do not have the resources (or priority) to create complex deployment environments go with Heroku.</li><li>Highly scaled, Highly concurrent, Network intense and highly complex systems that need a lot of introspection are not very well suited for Heroku.</li><li>Systems with high-security requirements are also not well suited to Heroku.</li></ul>

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

<div>We use Heroku as a platform for developing applications, services, websites, and landing pages. Heroku is used by the technology department and product development. Heroku is one of the most versatile platforms ever, it was the first cloud platform as a service. In a marketing agency, it is a good platform to develop customer applications, landing pages, and websites.</div><div>

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Likelihood to Recommend

It is perfect for the custom development of small applications, services, and websites where there is a limited budget or cost forecast. It is a good platform for scalable services and applications, with a great capability to scale an application when needed. In some cases, Heroku may not be as well suited, because when using some addons with more expensive plans, the cost can be quite high compared to AWS or GCP.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Heroku is being used organization-wide to handle most of the web-related infrastructure. Production and staging servers for most of our backend platforms live in Heroku, including Ruby on Rails, Wordpress, and Nginx platforms. Much of our support infrastructure is also hosted using Heroku add-ons, including Redis and Solr. Heroku helps simplify Dev-Ops and provides an easy path for any engineer to utilize and launch to our staging and production servers.

Likelihood to Recommend

Heroku is great for a lean team that has a healthy budget for their web tech. It enables teams to set up and deploy to servers very quickly, without much coordination. I have setup equivalent deployment services in AWS and Digital Ocean, but it took a lot of time and trial and error on each of those platforms to reach as smooth of a deployment experience as Heroku. Heroku works great out of the box. As long as you don't have unusual requirements and are OK with the relatively monolithic structure that Heroku enforces, it is a great choice for staging and production web application servers.