What is Heroku?

Modern applications require lots of infrastructure; platform as a service (PaaS) is a computing model in which a third-party provides all the infrastructure so that the programmer can focus on building the application.

According to the official websitehttps://www.heroku.com/, Heroku is a platform as well as a service (PaaS) that enables developers to build, run, and operate applications entirely in the cloud.

Key features

  • It has support for modern languages such as Node, Ruby, Java, PHP, Scala, Go, and Python.

  • It supports continuous integration of code by allowing applications to be deployed from Git, GitHub, Docker, or with the use of an API.

  • It can easily ​scale apps.

  • Dynos are containers for the application that facilitate scaling and load-balancing of applications.

Some notable users

  1. Toyota Europe

  2. Macy’s

  3. Yonomi

  4. Dubsmash

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