Heroku allows for seamless scaling and usage.
Heroku runs the back end of our virtual mentoring platform that facilitates our education programs. It allows for email notifications to …
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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…
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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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Production
$25.00
Cloud
per month
Advanced
$250.00
Cloud
per month
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- No setup fee
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- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Starting price (does not include set up fee)
- $85 per month
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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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April 28, 2022
Heroku allows for seamless scaling and usage.
Score 8 out of 10
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Verified User
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.
- Streamlines different functionality.
- Makes monitoring activity accessible.
- More user friendly for those who aren't familiar with coding.
- Progress summaries for users with activity reports.
- Potentially a user overview tour of Heroku.
- 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.
87.27272727272727%
8.7
- 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.
Heroku was more extensive in terms of its operating and scaling from what we witnessed by looking into other options and trying to find the best operating system for a new platform.
November 22, 2021
Every day more disappointing
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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.
- Not much lately [in my opinion]
- Simple product to use
- Support
- Documentation
- Speed
- Reliability
48.18181818181819%
4.8
- Speed
June 07, 2021
Great for startups
It's used by the R&D to host the production / staging and dev environments across most services.
- easy deployments
- fast setup
- low maintenance for infrastructure
- easy to change and adapt
- pricing
- better selection of server/dyno types
- simple deployments
- east setup and change of infrastructure
- great UI
91.11111111111111%
9.1
- go to market speed
Heroku Platform is much faster to setup, easy to maintain and in terms of ROI makes more sense.
May 12, 2021
Great for early stage products
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.
- Server hosting.
- Database hosting.
- Pricing - more expensive than other modern options.
- Marketplace add-ons sometimes change with little notice.
- Reliability.
- Simple management console.
- Integrations.
38.18181818181819%
3.8
- Very fast initial launch.
- Long term: more expensive than other options would have been.
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.
- Easy to use
- Fairly cheap to start with
- Fairly easy to scale the application server
- Not 100% reliable on the cheapest plan; we've had a couple instances of downtime over the year
- Limited number of supported languages
- Limited choice of database
- Integration with Papertrail for logging purposes
- Scaling with Heroku Platform dynos make it very easy to upgrade/downgrade server
- Free tier to launch POF or testing platform
80%
8.0
- We are able to launch applications fairly quickly without too much hassle on the DevOps side
- The free tier made us able to create an initial POF application to showcase without paying for server fee
- Autoscaling rules save us some money on quiet time
Heroku Platform is cheaper to begin with compared to DigitalOcean or Amazon Fargate. The configuration user interface is also arguably easier to understand. With its user friendliness and cheaper tiers, Heroku Platform was our pick to host some of our applications that were suited to be hosted in PaaS. It also supports an add-on that's pretty handy to integrate for our build process.