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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 |
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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 19, 2019
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. The software team uses Heroku and various plugins to deploy and monitor the performance of the web applications and background tasks. It is the hosting services that runs our SaaS product.
- It makes deployment, environment configuration, and simple manageability extraordinarily simple and easy to do, and getting up and going is a wonderfully simple process.
- The metrics included are excellent as a first resource for diagnosing high level issues.
- For beginners, Heroku is an excellent tool, making initial deployment and environment configuration wonderfully easy and fast.
- Heroku is absolutely fantastic on the mobile break point (mobile responsiveness). As a startup, things still happen on weekends while out at the park or driving out of town, and it has been wonderful to be able to troubleshoot or restart servers from the phone.
- The Heroku CLI provides a wonderful interface for interacting with the cloud environment.
- Heroku does not provide static IP addresses. For most applications this is not a concern, but in particular cases, especially around explicitly sensitive data, this makes Heroku prohibitive.
- For a more senior engineer seeking to SSH onto a server and monitor the machine's performance, or extract log files for extensive research, Heroku does not provide a great way to do this.
- Heroku permissions controls could be more granular. For instance, allowing some users to view environment variables while others can not view these.
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7.1
- 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.
- AWS Elastic Beanstalk and Rackspace
Rackspace can provide dedicated hardware, where Heroku can not. When dealing with particular clients or different fields, this can be a deciding factor if this is a requirement.
AWS provides extensive configuration options, providing a more mature infrastructure, with dedicated resources toward infrastructure, much more control of traffic and components.
AWS provides extensive configuration options, providing a more mature infrastructure, with dedicated resources toward infrastructure, much more control of traffic and components.
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Software engineering, dev ops, and SRE
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Software engineers, engineering managers, devops engineers
- Host our applications
- Provide sandboxes for engineers to quickly develop with business owners through review apps
- Provide metrics on key functionality
- Review apps have been great for rapidly iterating on new features and functionality
- Connecting to the logs for a more real time analysis of operations
No
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Product Reputation
- Prior Experience with the Product
Ease of use. Heroku wins because it is easy to deploy your application, monitor and manage your application, and connect other services like CI/CD and databases.
I might more thoroughly evaluate the competition. My best experience with any PaaS has been with Heroku. More robust providers like AWS and GCP are complicated to say the least. Familiarity with Heroku gave it a significant leg up.
- Implemented in-house
No
Change management was minimal
- Configuration of databases on review apps.
No
When running a hobby size database, I accidentally wiped a very important table. Although they could not recover the data, as I had not paid for the tier which provided data backups, they were able to suggest ways to recreate the data based on other services I had. It was work on my part but did get me back to a good state.
- Heroku CLI allows you to easily interact with the Heroku Dynos as if you were SSH'ed onto a self managed server.
- The activity monitor easily allows you to detect change and watch deploys and even rollback to previous deploys.
- Pipelines and review apps are the best way to get a working prototype into a user's hands without having to commit it into a trunk branch of code.
- The load time to get to environment variables or resources can be long.
August 13, 2019
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 Rails application, no doubt. It provides all the tools you need to deploy and manage your application in production so that you can focus on the development of your product. The paid plan is a natural choice when you validate your idea since you're used to the tools and the application is ready for the infrastructure. Both, free and paid, are excellent products.
- The tooling is simply amazing. You can deploy your application in some minutes without any prior experience with the platform.
- Their way of building applications encourage you to think about scalability and composability of your app.
- They have a big community around the platform and many add-ons written by third-parties.
- The price is not so affordable when you start growing. For small companies, needing small containers, it works quite well but for large applications, it may be too expensive.
97%
9.7
- 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
Better UI and tooling
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Developers and a manager.
2
You definitely have to have some tech skills but you don't need to go hands on in coding or server maintenance. The manager can go there and restart servers, scale instances, and do some other simple things that can save the day.
- Infrastructure management
- Application scale
- Application development
- It's just a simple application. It uses the basic of Heroku and it's works great.
- We plan to use other add-ons. Redis is the next one we're going to try.
- We think about creating new pipelines so new developers can submit code to staging and we can promote it.
Yes
We were using Linode before Heroku. It's a different use case, but we decided to refactor the app to be able to use Heroku. Building and maintaining your own server takes time and effort, and we just wanted to improve the application instead of focusing on the infrastructure side of things. Heroku is great for that.
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Product Reputation
- Prior Experience with the Product
Product features is probably the most important factor. The idea of having an immutable infrastructure was something that made a huge difference for us. We don't want to keep maintaining our own server to have the application running.
I would choose Heroku once again.
- Implemented in-house
No
Change management was minimal
- Changing the application to use 12factor.net
- The application had to be written to work good on Heroku
- Making the application use less memory and CPU. It was using a big server and we wanted it to use small heroku instances
I did not have the change to talk to the support team directly but I used their writen instructions many times. I have to say that its very well written and solved my problems almost every time. They even have instructions on how to improve your application so it can run better on Heroku. In my opinion, it's one of the best I ever used.
- Their command like tool is awesome. You can do almost anything there.
- Creating a new database or a new app is fantastic.
- The fact that I can deploy my application by using git push is amazing.
- If you start growing, it's hard to keep the prices low. Everything is so easy to add.
Yes
I had to check charts and do basic scaling via mobile interface and it works good. It's not a fully-featured interface but it has all the basic functions you would expect if you're in need. Nothing to complain about that.
April 15, 2013
Look at Heroku first when designing a web application
Score 8 out of 10
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- Very easy to use platform as a service. If you are running a node.js application, the only thing you need to do is to specify the node and npm versions in your package.json and be sure that you are referencing the port provided in your environment rather than hard-coding a port number.
- Really good set of partners. It's easy to try out a wide range of partner applications from within the Heroku environment. Most have a free trial option.
- Single management console for your application. You can access the administrative function for any application from within Heroku.
- For node.js, the platform does not support websockets and because you do not have sticky sessions, it is virtually impossible to do any socket.io applications if you want to run multiple dynos. There is an add-on that will allow you to do push style APIs, but one of the benefits of using node.js is its natural support for this programming model.
- It would be really nice if you could configure your application to spread dynos across multiple availability zones and control this. Heroku runs on top of AWS in the US EAST region. We run all of our other services there as well. For many of these services, we are able to create a scenario where we have a master-slave configuration across different availability zones (i.e. Amazon data centers). I wish we could do that with Heroku.
- Platform as a service is an absolutely unbeatable way to build out a scalable web application with minimial up front investment. When I compare building out on Heroku to building out on AWS with RightScale, Chef, or Putty, I think that it is an order of magnitude faster. And those options are at least an order of magnitude faster and cheaper than building your own server cluster.
- Heroku also provides a very reliable production environment that dramatically reduces any ongoing operational cost from a manpower perspective. You would have to have a very large production environment to reach the point where the incremental expense that you pay for the platform as a service is greater than the cost of hiring a devops engineer to create/manage an equivalent capability.
- The other big benefit is the rapid deployment of test systems.
The primary alternatives I considered were running our own images directly on top of Amazon Web Services and Nodejitsu in conjunction with Joyent hosting.
The big advantage of Heroku over a direct AWS implementation is that you don't have to mess with the web dispatcher tier of the application at all. Doing a scalable web application on AWS is a well-known configuration, but it is a bit of a grind to set everything up and have it switch over when you upgrade your application tier automatically. With Heroku, it's automatic. For a small startup, time is your most precious resource so having this done for me was invaluable.
I chose Heroku over Nodejitsu/Joyent primarily because of maturity. I will definitely be keeping my eye on them in the future though. At the time of the decision, my biggest show-stopper was that we could not do custom SSL without jumping up to a dedicated environment. This may have changed since then.
The big advantage of Heroku over a direct AWS implementation is that you don't have to mess with the web dispatcher tier of the application at all. Doing a scalable web application on AWS is a well-known configuration, but it is a bit of a grind to set everything up and have it switch over when you upgrade your application tier automatically. With Heroku, it's automatic. For a small startup, time is your most precious resource so having this done for me was invaluable.
I chose Heroku over Nodejitsu/Joyent primarily because of maturity. I will definitely be keeping my eye on them in the future though. At the time of the decision, my biggest show-stopper was that we could not do custom SSL without jumping up to a dedicated environment. This may have changed since then.
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Engineering/IT
- We run our production application servers on top of Heroku.
- We also run a number of test applications in Heroku mostly using a configuration with just one dyno (i.e. free). Many of the third-party services we use also provide scaled down free options, so we can set up very small test sites for little or no cost.
- Implemented in-house
- Self-taught
Very easy to learn. Your best bet is to just jump in with the Hello World application in your language of choice.
No