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Heroku Platform

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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Pricing

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Production

$25.00

Cloud
per month

Advanced

$250.00

Cloud
per month

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
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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

8.1
Avg 8.1
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Product Details

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 Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

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 and Development environment replication 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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Reviews and Ratings

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Community Insights

TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

Streamlined Functionality: Users have consistently praised the platform for its streamlined functionality, making it easier to monitor various activities efficiently and effectively. The intuitive design and seamless integration of features contribute to a user-friendly experience. Easy Deployment and Setup: Reviewers appreciate the product's simplicity, easy deployments, fast setup process, and minimal maintenance requirements for infrastructure management. The straightforward deployment process allows users to quickly adapt to changing needs. Scalability and Ease of Use: The application server's scalability and ease of deployment are highly valued by users who find the user-friendly interface intuitive and accessible. This combination of scalability with ease of use enhances the overall user experience.

High Pricing: Several users have found Heroku to be more expensive than other modern options. They note sudden changes in marketplace add-on prices, leading to concerns about overall costs and budget management.

Reliability Concerns on Cheapest Plan: Users have cited instances of downtime while on the cheapest plan. Additionally, they express frustration with limitations in supported languages and database choices, impacting their ability to effectively run applications without interruptions.

Limited Security Features for Non-Enterprise Users: Reviewers highlight that critical security features are exclusive to the Enterprise offering, creating challenges for non-enterprise users. They worry about potential vulnerabilities and additional costs associated with ensuring robust security measures outside of the Enterprise tier.

Reviews

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Heroku allows for seamless scaling and usage.

Rating: 8 out of 10
April 28, 2022
EC
Vetted Review
Verified User
Heroku Platform
6 years of experience
  • 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.

Great for early stage products

Rating: 7 out of 10
May 12, 2021
Vetted Review
Verified User
Heroku Platform
6 years of experience
  • Very fast initial launch.
  • Long term: more expensive than other options would have been.

Amazing value for a freelance/contract application web developer

Rating: 9 out of 10
May 01, 2021
Vetted Review
Verified User
Heroku Platform
2 years of experience
  • 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

A great option for your initial deployment!

Rating: 8 out of 10
April 27, 2021
Vetted Review
Verified User
Heroku Platform
1 year of experience
  • As I said, quickly get your application deployed.
  • If left alone you may come to find a large bill hitting your inbox for your running instances.

Heroku: perfect platform for agile teams!

Rating: 10 out of 10
November 16, 2019
Vetted Review
Verified User
Heroku Platform
3 years of experience
  • It has saved us a bunch of time by automatically deploying our code every time we updated the repository.
  • When our application has slowed down by the increase of user activity, we just add another dyno and problem solved!
  • It's very easy to modify the environment variables via the Heroku dashboard or via it's CLI.

Almost Zero Learning Curve!

Rating: 9 out of 10
September 30, 2019
SF
Vetted Review
Verified User
Heroku Platform
5 years of experience
  • 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.

Heroku Helps Us Get Things Done

Rating: 9 out of 10
September 19, 2019
Vetted Review
Verified User
Heroku Platform
6 years of experience
  • Lower up-front infrastructure costs.
  • Easy scalability.
  • Lowered development cost due to great APIs and documentation.

Perfect for small projects

Rating: 9 out of 10
August 23, 2019
Vetted Review
Verified User
Heroku Platform
5 years of experience
  • Brought greater agility in the pipeline of simple application development.

Heroku Makes Back end Management Simple

Rating: 9 out of 10
August 23, 2019
AD
Vetted Review
Verified User
Heroku Platform
6 years of experience
  • Heroku has allowed every engineer to be able to deploy and function on the operational side of things.
  • It handles many aspects of our security and configuration, giving us more time to focus on application development.
  • It is a pricey service. It is much cheaper to use a cloud host, but that route has more management and setup overhead.

Heroku, a solid cloud-offering from Salesforce

Rating: 7 out of 10
August 20, 2019
Vetted Review
Verified User
Heroku Platform
3 years of experience
  • We have had easy integration with our Salesforce products.
  • Makes us review our use vs. cost of the platform as we use it more.
  • Like other cloud platforms, Heroku allows us to experiment quickly with ideas.

Beginner to moderate, it will be your Hero-ku ;D

Rating: 9 out of 10
August 19, 2019
MH
Vetted Review
Verified User
Heroku Platform
1 year of experience
  • 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.

The easiest platform as a service Rails app hosting solution that our developers love using

Rating: 9 out of 10
August 17, 2019
BM
Vetted Review
Verified User
Heroku Platform
8 years of experience
  • Starting fast and deploying new ideas the same day.
  • Initial launch and MVP testing without worrying about DevOps.
  • Developers can prioritize features and don't have to worry about DevOps work in new and growing projects.

Heroku Review

Rating: 6 out of 10
August 14, 2019
Vetted Review
Verified User
Heroku Platform
2 years of experience
  • Heroku provided us the capability to meet the needs of our clients.

Easy Peezy Heroku

Rating: 10 out of 10
August 13, 2019
  • 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.

Heroku - Great for quick projects

Rating: 9 out of 10
August 12, 2019
Vetted Review
Verified User
Heroku Platform
2 years of experience
  • Time to create a dyno is minimal
  • Offloading scalability to Heroku saves countless development hours
  • Quite a lot can be done using the free tier if cold boots are not an issue

Perfect for Hobbyists and Beginners

Rating: 10 out of 10
August 12, 2019
CB
Vetted Review
Verified User
Heroku Platform
2 years of experience
  • I've been able to create chat bots and call bots to help streamline questions and requests our company gets. I use Heroku to host the Python scripts and scale up the server if we get high volume.

Quick to Set Up and Experiment With

Rating: 10 out of 10
August 09, 2019
Vetted Review
Verified User
Heroku Platform
7 years of experience
  • Without Heroku we could not have gotten our platform off the ground. The challenges of setting up all the aspects of the platform from scratch -- whether pushing our existing tech team or adding consultants -- would have stressed our budget in the early days.
  • When talking to investors, hosting on Heroku builds confidence that scaling the platform as our user base grows will not be a stumbling block for the business.
  • It is easy to find developers and devops people with significant Heroku experience to ensure that new team members can hit the ground running and add meaningful expertise to our team.

Easy Deployments

Rating: 10 out of 10
June 07, 2019
DW
Vetted Review
Verified User
Heroku Platform
1 year of experience
  • Allows my development team to focus on writing new features over deployment logic
  • Automatic backups of our data
  • Don't need to write custom salesforce code

Under 100K Monthly Visitors for the next 6+ months? Go with Heroku, not AWS

Rating: 10 out of 10
April 25, 2019
BG
Vetted Review
Verified User
Heroku Platform
7 years of experience
  • Saves myself and other developers time; we can focus on the website functionality, not boilerplate hosting issues.
  • No noticeable downtime I've experienced in 6 years of usage. They're solid.
  • Keeps the focus on the product, not the hosting.
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