Heroku

Heroku is a fully managed cloud platform for hosting applications. Developers push their code and the platform builds and runs it, so they do not have to look after servers themselves.

What Heroku offers

• Dynos — isolated Linux containers that run an app's processes and can be scaled up or out.
• Heroku Postgres — a managed PostgreSQL database service.
• Heroku Key-Value Store — a managed Redis-style data store.
• Add-ons and buildpacks — more than 150 third-party add-ons and over 380 open source buildpacks extend the stack.
• Pipelines and review apps — continuous delivery tools, with a disposable test app for each pull request and quick rollback of code or database.

Who it works with

It serves developers and teams from small hobby projects up to large ecommerce sites, and any language that runs on Linux can be used through a buildpack.

Key facts

• Model: Container-based platform as a service
• Compliance: Audits cover PCI, HIPAA, ISO and SOC requirements
• Teams: Collaboration tools manage people, app permissions and delivery