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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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- Upgrades and platform fixes (43)8.484%
- Scalability (43)8.282%
- Platform management overhead (42)7.676%
- Platform access control (42)7.070%
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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.
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Heroku Platform Technical Details
| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
Frequently Asked Questions
Heroku Platform starts at $85.
AWS Elastic Beanstalk, CloudFoundry, and Red Hat OpenShift are common alternatives for Heroku Platform.
Reviewers rate Development environment creation highest, with a score of 8.7.
The most common users of Heroku Platform are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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August 13, 2019
Easy Peezy Heroku
We use Heroku as our primary hosting service for our web application. It takes care of scaling when it comes to our database size, web traffic spikes, and background jobs. Deployment and maintenance come with ease without having to worry about managing our infrastructure. We have multiple web applications that serve as our staging and production environments, and we use a tagging system that rolls out our deploys quickly. The scheduler comes in very handy to mimic cronjobs necessary to run at specific times. Without having to worry about the systems side of development, we can concentrate more on features.
- 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.
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9.7
- 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.
I've had experience with using Amazon EC2 directly, Rackspace, and EngineYard. Heroku has provided the best ease of use without too much hands-on management. Outside of that, I believe it provides the most value for what you pay for. As your needs increase, the price increases, but only at the discretion of what is mandatory of the application.
- 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.
February 02, 2019
You Get What You Pay For
We use Heroku to host Java web apps, particularly RESTful web services that communicate using a JSON transport layer. It is used in our software development department for rapid deployment and prototyping of web services, as well as long term APIs that are provided for both internal software applications as well as customer-facing.
- Incredibly straightforward deployment processes with best-in-class documentation and getting started tutorials
- Great reporting and analytics
- Transparent pricing lets you get really good estimates on how much hosting will cost, so there aren't any surprises
- Easy to enable and disable plugins
- Autoconfiguration and "convention over configuration" for most features
- The vibrant community means it's easy to find out how to achieve various goals by seeing what others did
- Top notch support that fixes problems right away
- Relatively affordable given what value-added features you get
- Could be less expensive, although you get what you pay for
- Sleeping apps can be an annoyance: Heroku automatically puts your apps in sleep mode and they have to spin back up after periods of inactivity. Much of this can be solved but it requires working around the built-in functionality. I understand why they do it but it's an area that could be improved.
- Restrictions to server access means you can't customize as much as you could if you owned the server. But again, this is also a benefit because it's about convention over configuration. So you can't configure as much, but then, you typically don't have to.
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8.8
- Heroku has allowed us to rapidly deploy Java web apps and services that run our mobile applications, as well as provide services for our clients. It has saved us tremendous time spent fiddling with Amazon Web Services configurations and as such, provides a great value for us.
Heroku is the more expensive option for hosting compared to some of the cloud platforms we investigated, but it's worth it for us because of the plug-and-play nature of Heroku deployment. We can be up and running in a few minutes and know with precision how much it will cost us each month to run the application, unlike Amazon Web Services where you have to go to great pains to configure it correctly or else you might end up with a shocking monthly bill. Overall, spending the time to configure Amazon Web Services or one of its competitors is likely the more affordable and powerful choice, because you have control over so many specifics of the configuration. But it also requires the burden of continuing to maintain and update your AWS instance, whereas with Heroku they take care of security fixes and platform upgrades. It's a great service and we are happy to pay the extra cost for the value-adds Heroku provides.
June 10, 2016
Easy to use and the best documentation around!
Heroku is used as both a platform for hosting our website both for production and staging. Where Heroku also thrives is the ease of use due to the fact that it has some of the best documentation on the internet. It also allows for seamless integration for many third party tools.
- Third party integration
- Separation between staging and production sites
- Documentation
- Terminal commands
- Scalability
- Frequent maintenance from Heroku team which forces lack of productivity from my team
- Adding dynos - not very cost effective
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7.3
- Negative impact on business if and when heroku is down for maintenance - customers can't make a purchase
- Positive - using third party Dataclips plug-in for SQL queries for our route info
- Positive - finding an error in our logs and retrieving customer information to help retain their business
Heroku is a really great platform to get up and running QUICKLY and efficiently. What Heroku is really great at that other services are lacking is ease of use, documentation. It is really great for beginning developers and awesome to get up and running to take care of lots of the headaches going on under the hood of a live web application. It's easier to get setup than an AWS service but AWS is better for scaling large sites.
June 04, 2014
Heroku is our genie in a bottle.
We are a mobile data collection company. We host the server component of our application and our customer data through Heroku and its plug-ins. As such, it is the technological backbone of our company. As we are a small company, we do not have sufficient resources to manage our own server infrastructure - Heroku fills this role nicely. It allows us to easily scale our resources, up or down, to meet customer demand. It offers plug-ins that help expose the issues customers are having, and help gather and report metrics for determination of ROI.
- Very low (or no) cost initially for full functionality. Great for a start-up.
- Highly scalable. Adding computing power to an environment, or creating a new one, takes seconds.
- Plug-ins. A wide variety of plug-ins exist for a variety of purposes: data storage, error reporting/logging, metrics gathering, backup and many more.
- Simple. Get up and running in a couple of hours. Documentation is available for all tasks.
- Seamless integration with Git, a quick Git push and your server is updated instantly.
- Heroku does not support .NET, only Ruby, Java, Node.js, Python and a few others
- Heroku can get very expensive if very powerful hardware is required. Not all plug-ins are free; the monthly cost can easily creep up.
- The potential for downtime increases as more plug-ins are used, if you're not careful in how you bring everything together.
- Heroku seamlessly connects you to the plug-ins you use via user accounts for those plug-ins' web sites; however in some cases, such as Mongo HQ, Heroku creates the account for you and it can be difficult to gain access to the plug-in directly if needed.
- Increased employee efficiency. There is no IT infrastructure on site that must be managed. Rolling out new servers for customers is nearly instantaneous. Plug-ins supply functionality that might otherwise have to be manually built. Changes can be pushed to server code in seconds to address immediate customer concerns.
- Faster path to proof-of-concept. As a start-up, it is critical to be up and running with a product as quickly as possible.
- Increased responsiveness to customer issues. Plug-ins provide insight into problems, and seamless Git integration facilitates a timely fix.
- Faster customer on-boarding. Customer trials are up and running in literally minutes.