Heroku Platform Reviews & Ratings 2022

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Heroku Platform

Overview

Reviews

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 …

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 …

Great for startups

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

Amazing value for a freelance/contract application web developer

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 …

A great option for your initial deployment!

Used to quickly and easily deploy an application that we were developing

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

Heroku is used to host and run our web application and background processes. Mainly our software team and data science team use Heroku. …

Almost Zero Learning Curve!

It enables us to deploy quickly and simply. Heroku enables us to get multiple services with almost zero DevOps overhead. We have many …

Heroku most developer-friendly platform

Heroku is an innovative platform for fast web applications development and thus ideal for deploying demos / testing environments / …

Heroku Makes Back end Management Simple

Heroku is being used organization-wide to handle most of the web-related infrastructure. Production and staging servers for most of our …

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

As a Ruby on Rails freelancer/consultant (and website owner) I often am tasked to choose the initial hosting stack for my client's new …

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

We use Heroku as part of our hosting for our SaaS business. It is not the only web host we use, but for Ruby on Rails web apps that we …

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 …

The best place I know to deploy a brand new Rails app

Heroku has both, a free and a paid plan. I [have] used the free tier for many years now, and it's the best platform to deploy an MVP of a …

An amazingly easy deployment and hosting service

We used Heroku to deploy and host our backend services. It was used by the whole company and it made deploying, hosting and scaling our …

Perfect for Hobbyists and Beginners

Heroku is a fantastic online hosting resource for use in small projects. The workflow is great for trial and error learning, and getting …

Easy Deployments

Heroku is used to host our backend Ruby on Rails API server, our Postgres database, and our Salesforce Connect logic to sync our data to …

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 …

Heroku the all in one cloud platform service

Our organization is majorly developing the application by using Node.js and PHP Frameworks. It has very well baked features including …

Heroku allows you to scale massively without taking on the burden of SysOps or owning servers

We use Heroku to control our web stack across the entire organization. Our engineers are able to scale and control server instances, web, …

Quick to Set Up and Experiment With

The product we offer is a web-based, SaaS genealogy platform. The entire platform is hosted by Heroku, making it our most significant tech …

Heroku: perfect platform for agile teams!

Heroku is the platform in which we deploy our applications. It hosts the backend services and it's dependencies such as databases, message …

Heroku FTW for POC!

Heroku is used in our organization to prototype various service and dynamic web site implementations. While I have access to other cloud …

For launching your startup or your pet side project, don't bother with anything else.

I have used Heroku since around 2010 for both personal and work-related, Ruby on Rails applications. In all but one case it was used …

7+ Years using Heroku at Code School and on my own personal projects

We've used Heroku for a number of projects over the years -- probably more than 100 different sites and applications. It is undoubtably …

Heroku Helps Us Get Things Done

We use Heroku extensively to build our products on; we make extensive use of Heroku's tooling and analytics to get software up and running …

Popular Features

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Platform 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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Not much lately [in my opinion]
Documentation

Ana Andres del Valle

Principal Solutions Architect

TidyChoice (Consumer Services, 1-10 employees)

low maintenance for infrastructure
better selection of server/dyno types

Verified User

C-Level Executive in Engineering

Hospitality Company, 11-50 employees

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

Features Scorecard

Platform-as-a-Service

7.3

73%

Ease of building user interfaces (26)
8.0
80%
Scalability (43)
6.6
66%
Platform management overhead (42)
8.2
82%
Workflow engine capability (28)
6.3
63%
Platform access control (42)
5.8
58%
Services-enabled integration (41)
6.4
64%
Development environment creation (38)
8.7
87%
Development environment replication (37)
7.8
78%
Issue monitoring and notification (41)
7.3
73%
Issue recovery (38)
7.4
74%
Upgrades and platform fixes (43)
7.8
78%

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.