Every day more disappointing
Heroku is becoming an average platform with poor support [in my opinion]. Since the acquisition, [I feel] Heroku has put aside engineering …
Heroku Platform
Heroku Platform
Overview
Reviews
Popular Features
View all 11 featuresPlatform management overhead (42)
8.2
82%
Upgrades and platform fixes (43)
7.8
78%
Scalability (43)
6.6
66%
Platform access control (42)
5.8
58%
Reviewer Pros & Cons
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Pricing
View all pricingProduction
$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
Features Scorecard
Platform-as-a-Service
7.3
73%
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 Competitors
Heroku Platform Technical Details
| Deployment Types | SaaS |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
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Frequently Asked Questions
How much does Heroku Platform cost?
Heroku Platform starts at $85.
What are Heroku Platform's top competitors?
AWS Elastic Beanstalk, CloudFoundry, and Red Hat OpenShift are common alternatives for Heroku Platform.
What is Heroku Platform's best feature?
Reviewers rate Development environment creation highest, with a score of 8.7.
Who uses Heroku Platform?
The most common users of Heroku Platform are from Small Businesses and the Computer Software industry.
Reviews and Ratings
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November 22, 2021
Every day more disappointing
- Speed
May 12, 2021
Great for early stage products
- Very fast initial launch.
- Long term: more expensive than other options would have been.
June 07, 2021
Great for startups
- go to market speed
- 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
April 27, 2021
A great option for your initial deployment!
- 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.
August 19, 2019
Beginner to moderate, it will be your Hero-ku ;D
- 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.
September 30, 2019
Almost Zero Learning Curve!
- 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.
September 13, 2019
Heroku most developer-friendly platform
- Familiarization with latest web technologies.
- Reducing deployment costs.
- Automation.
August 23, 2019
Heroku Makes Back end Management Simple
- 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.
- 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.
August 17, 2019
The easiest platform as a service Rails app hosting solution that our developers love using
- 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.
August 13, 2019
Easy Peezy Heroku
- 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.
August 13, 2019
The best place I know to deploy a brand new Rails app
- A lot less time spent with infrastructure tasks
- Less money spent on a staging environment. We can use the free tier with the same app on a different scale.
- A guideline to develop scalable applications in a cloud environment
August 12, 2019
An amazingly easy deployment and hosting service
- Easy to maintain infrastructure
- Easy to publish updates
- Easy to configure
- Easy to add plugins
August 12, 2019
Perfect for Hobbyists and Beginners
- 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.
June 07, 2019
Easy Deployments
- 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
February 02, 2019
You Get What You Pay For
- 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.
June 27, 2018
Heroku the all in one cloud platform service
- Heroku supports various languages which help us to deploy our various projects by the requirements
- Heroku helps us to reduce the using and purchasing 3rd party applications for deployment, running CI, staging and monitoring the applications within one place
- Our developers can focus on other tasks while working and deploying with Heroku because it has inbuilt many features to work and maintain
August 12, 2019
Heroku allows you to scale massively without taking on the burden of SysOps or owning servers
- We don't need SysOps!
- It's allowed us to scale nearly infinitely
- No need to own the servers
August 09, 2019
Quick to Set Up and Experiment With
- 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.
November 16, 2019
Heroku: perfect platform for agile teams!
- 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.
May 06, 2016
Heroku FTW for POC!
- Quick prototyping is a big benefit.
- Integration with GIT makes things very easy and saves tons of time
- Multiple database support makes it a very flexible tool.
- Heroku allowed us to get up and running fast. Deployment was really easy and connecting to our codebase was, too. The deployment integration with GitHub is pretty slick.
- The add-ons provisioning is so simple and the documentation is so thorough that, at least at first, it means you don't have to hire a dedicated devops person to manage this stuff.
- Heroku has tools that allow the collaborators (those with access to the Heroku dashboard) to be able to quickly and easily do triage from just about anywhere, including your smartphone.
- Our ability to create new sites (mostly internal) and throw them up on a server has been amazing.
- The architecture decisions around Heroku (designing around dynos and workers) set us up for success in moving to other larger architecture.
- The difficulty getting some sites that aren't in the golden path out (that required unique build packs) meant that we could have spent that same time setting up a dedicated server for the site.
September 19, 2019
Heroku Helps Us Get Things Done
- Lower up-front infrastructure costs.
- Easy scalability.
- Lowered development cost due to great APIs and documentation.