Heroku Reviews

What is Heroku?

Heroku is a cloud platform as a service (PaaS) that supports multiple programming languages, allowing developers to deploy, manage, and scale their applications. It is designed around a managed container system, with integrated data services and a powerful ecosystem for building modern apps. The platform offers a fully managed runtime environment with Heroku Runtime, where apps run inside dynos—smart containers that are monitored, patched, and upgraded to keep them secure and up-to-date.

The Heroku Developer Experience (DX) focuses on an app-centric approach to software delivery, enabling developers to deploy code directly from tools like Git, GitHub, or Continuous Integration (CI) systems without worrying about servers or infrastructure. The intuitive web-based Heroku Dashboard provides easy app management and performance insights.

Heroku’s Data Services and Ecosystem include Heroku Elements, which allow developers to extend their apps with Add-ons, customize their application stack with Buildpacks, and jumpstart projects with Buttons. It offers fully-managed data service Add-ons like Heroku Postgres, Heroku Data for Redis, and Apache Kafka on Heroku for extending app functionality.