Heroku
ELI5 — The Vibe Check
Heroku was the OG platform that made deploying apps easy before Vercel existed. You pushed your code and it ran your app on a server without you having to configure anything. It's a bit pricey now and killed its free tier, which made millions of developers very sad.
Real Talk
Heroku is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) that lets developers deploy, manage, and scale applications without infrastructure management. It supports multiple languages, uses a Procfile-based configuration, and pioneered the git-push-to-deploy workflow. Acquired by Salesforce, it's now positioned for enterprise use.
Show Me The Code
# Deploy to Heroku
git push heroku main
# Scale dynos
heroku ps:scale web=2
# Check logs
heroku logs --tail
When You'll Hear This
"Back in the day we hosted everything on Heroku's free tier." / "Heroku is easier than AWS but way more expensive at scale."
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