Item: Heroku Platform
Rating: 9
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Heroku is a great platform for quickly spinning up small web apps. If I had any demo product or simple sample I was working on, I would deploy it to Heroku because of the ease of development. The amount of hooks and integrations Heroku has with other services also make it an excellent choice to get started on a project.

Pros and Cons

Quick to get started
Countless Integrations
CLI is easy to use

The cold start times can be brutal for free plans
Cost can be expensive if you have many dynos
Have to be careful of third party integration pricing as well

Return on Investment

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

Usability

It is highly recommended to follow the getting started guides that Heroku offers. Once you have the command line interface (CLI) tool installed on your machine then it is pretty easy from there to at least deploy to Heroku. If you need further complexities such as environment specific variables the CLI is easy to use, as is the website's dashboard. Adding third party services are also easy to implement through the web portal.

Support Rating

I never had to contact Heroku support personally, but I have heard that those who have end up with a positive experience overall.

Likelihood to Recommend

Ease of use and spinning up a quick project is where this really shines. It also makes it easy to connect to some third-party services to help with your app while making development experience much easier. For example, adding a MongoDB database to your web app with Heroku can be done in just a few clicks. Highly recommend it for quick and small demo projects.

Heroku - Great for quick projects

Overall Satisfaction with Heroku