Heroku Insights

What is Heroku?

Heroku is a cloud platform as a service (PaaS) supporting several programming languages. It's used for deploying, managing, and scaling modern web applications. Developers can deploy their code to Heroku's servers, which then handles the infrastructure, servers, and scaling automatically, allowing developers to focus solely on their application code.

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What other technologies are related to Heroku?

Heroku Competitor Technologies

Google App Engine

Google App Engine is a platform as a service (PaaS) that provides similar functionality to Heroku, allowing developers to deploy and manage web applications.

mentioned alongside Heroku in 15% (226) of relevant job posts

AWS

AWS (Amazon Web Services) provides a broad set of cloud computing services, including those that compete with Heroku, such as Elastic Beanstalk or ECS/Fargate.

mentioned alongside Heroku in 0% (7.7k) of relevant job posts

Netlify

Netlify is a platform for deploying static sites and serverless functions, which offers similar deployment capabilities to Heroku, particularly for front-end applications.

mentioned alongside Heroku in 12% (199) of relevant job posts

AWS App Runner

AWS App Runner is a service that provides a way to deploy containerized web applications and APIs, similar to Heroku.

mentioned alongside Heroku in 35% (51) of relevant job posts

Heroku Complementary Technologies

Papertrail

Papertrail is a log management service. Heroku provides its own logging, but Papertrail offers more advanced features and analysis, making it a useful add-on.

mentioned alongside Heroku in 50% (215) of relevant job posts

Ruby on Rails

Ruby on Rails is a popular framework for building web applications, and Heroku provides excellent support for deploying Rails applications.

mentioned alongside Heroku in 4% (2.4k) of relevant job posts

React 16.8.6

React is a JavaScript library for building user interfaces. It is commonly used with applications deployed on Heroku as the front-end, complementing the backend services.

mentioned alongside Heroku in 93% (69) of relevant job posts