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    Heroku Platform

    Score9.2 out of 10
    N/AThe 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…

    $85

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    Heroku Platform
    Editions & Modules
    Production
    $25.00
    per month
    Advanced
    $250.00
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Heroku Platform
    Free Trial
    No
    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    No
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee
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    Heroku Platform
    Considered Both Products
    Salesforce
    Chose Heroku Platform
    Heroku was more extensive in terms of its operating and scaling from what we witnessed by looking into other options and trying to find the best operating system for a new platform.
    Incentivized
    Chose Heroku Platform
    Heroku Platform is much faster to setup, easy to maintain and in terms of ROI makes more sense.
    Incentivized
    Chose Heroku Platform
    Heroku Platform is cheaper to begin with compared to DigitalOcean or Amazon Fargate. The configuration user interface is also arguably easier to understand. With its user friendliness and cheaper tiers, Heroku Platform was our pick to host some of our applications that were …
    Incentivized
    Chose Heroku Platform
    I believe Azure App Service is pretty similar to Heroku as you can in both deploy your backend applications.
    However, the dyno concept and it's drastically simple web dashboard makes Heroku a much better and sane alternative to Azure App Service. In Heroku, you get abstracted of …
    Incentivized
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    Kuberbetes is an easily scalable docker based option which should need minimal DevOps, however, it has a pretty high learning curve with many decisions that need to be addressed as well as monitoring, logging and security concerns.
    Incentivized
    Chose Heroku Platform
    Heroku has the advantage of simplifying the development and integration with some services (which in Heroku they call addon) wherein other platforms, certainly for those who don't have much experience, it will take much more development time.
    Incentivized
    Chose Heroku Platform
    Heroku, in my opinion, is the easiest platform to deploy and host web applications on. From collaboration to deployment, everything is well thought out and bulletproof. If you need advanced server functionality, like a VPC, machine-to-machine communication, etc., you will …
    Incentivized
    Chose Heroku Platform
    We chose Heroku solely because we had an end goal of putting our data into Salesforce. The platform allowed us to simplify this.
    Incentivized
    Chose Heroku Platform
    We also use Cloud 66 which provides some of Heroku's features, at a lower price. It still cannot compare to Heroku's ease of use and ability to easily deploy new staging environments though, so we will always use Heroku for at least some of our projects.
    Incentivized
    Chose Heroku Platform
    Heroku is an all in 1 package for deploying and running your services. It provides an easy to use setup and run for 90% of cases. If you have a more complicated infrastructure, you'd definitely need to move to another hosting provider. But if as long as you can operate within …
    Incentivized
    Chose Heroku Platform
    Heroku has advantages over Docker, Google App Engine and AWS products, but it depends largely on your use case. If you are already in AWS, it's probably in your best interest to stay with AWS products. However, other "Cloud Formation/Orchestration" products like Docker are …
    Incentivized
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    We kicked the tires on OpenShift before deciding on Heroku, and found the platform to be much less intuitive and well-documented than Heroku. It felt like we were constantly trying to implement workarounds for esoteric platform problems, and eventually the work became too …
    Incentivized
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    For a different project, Aptible surpassed Heroku when it came to meeting HIPAA-related requirements, though it offers much less flexibility with add-on services (for obvious reasons). Google App Engine had a much more complicated deployment model and seemed unnecessarily …
    Incentivized
    Chose Heroku Platform
    Heroku is much easier to get setup in and doesn't require strong DevOps knowledge. It's also a lot harder to mess up in.
    Incentivized
    Chose Heroku Platform
    To this day no other PaaS matches Heroku in ease of use and maturity. If you want to stay 100% focused on your unique product/service rather than wasting time on boilerplate hosting issues, I can highly recommend Heroku. I personally use it for all of my own websites …
    Incentivized
    Chose Heroku Platform
    Heroku is the more expensive option for hosting compared to some of the cloud platforms we investigated, but it's worth it for us because of the plug-and-play nature of Heroku deployment. We can be up and running in a few minutes and know with precision how much it will cost us …
    Incentivized
    Chose Heroku Platform
    Heroku has the easy facility to deploy and host applications while others have to configure a lot. The price of the services is high for others. But within Heroku pricing and easy to maintain under the same roof.
    Incentivized
    Chose Heroku Platform
    Some APIs are specifically developed to be deployed to certain platforms and usually decision which platform to use is not developer's. Another question is deployment cost and pricing model; in specific cases after price comparison Heroku is often selected among other cloud …
    Incentivized
    Chose Heroku Platform
    Better UI and tooling
    Incentivized
    Chose Heroku Platform
    Heroku is a really great platform to get up and running QUICKLY and efficiently. What Heroku is really great at that other services are lacking is ease of use, documentation. It is really great for beginning developers and awesome to get up and running to take care of lots of …
    Incentivized
    Chose Heroku Platform
    Heroku is a much better choice for small prototyping and small to medium size sites. It is easier to use than most other services/platforms.
    Incentivized
    Chose Heroku Platform
    Slicker UX. More tightly integrated with Salesforce. Process oriented DX.
    Incentivized
    Chose Heroku Platform
    I feel Heroku is lightyears ahead of all other PaaS offerings. To me the competition is between PaaS and self-hosted cloud, not between Heroku and other PaaS providers.
    Incentivized
    Chose Heroku Platform
    I have not evaluated Engine Yard in years, but at the time the starting price point and supported integrations could not begin to compete with Heroku.
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Features
    Heroku Platform
    Platform-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Heroku Platform
    Feature
    Heroku Platform
    8.1
    43 Ratings
    Ease of building user interfaces7.626 Ratings
    Scalability8.343 Ratings
    Platform management overhead7.642 Ratings
    Workflow engine capability8.429 Ratings
    Platform access control7.142 Ratings
    Services-enabled integration8.141 Ratings
    Development environment creation8.738 Ratings
    Development environment replication8.737 Ratings
    Issue monitoring and notification8.241 Ratings
    Issue recovery8.438 Ratings
    Upgrades and platform fixes8.443 Ratings
    User Ratings
    Heroku Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (47 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.5
    (6 ratings)
    Usability
    9.2
    (17 ratings)
    Availability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.7
    (19 ratings)
    Online Training
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.0
    (3 ratings)