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What is Salesforce Heroku?

Salesforce Heroku is a cloud platform as a service (PaaS) that enables developers to build, run, and scale applications in various programming languages and frameworks in the cloud. It simplifies the deployment process, auto-manages the infrastructure, and provides integrated data services, making it easier for developers to focus on writing code without worrying about the underlying hardware or software layers. Heroku supports a wide range of development languages, including Ruby, Java, Node.js, Python, and PHP, offering a highly flexible environment for application development and deployment.

Company Salesforce
Year founded 1999
Company size 10,001+ employees
Headquarters San Francisco, California
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140 Salesforce Heroku Reviews
4.3 out of 5
Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Feb 23, 2020
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Overall Rating:
4.0
SR
Spencer R.
Founder
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"Making Application easy to deploy"
What do you like best about Salesforce Heroku?

I love that Heroku scales with you. You can easily upload a Nodejs Application using a git repository, and Heroku will handle the deployment. You don't have to worry about how it will scale with you, as they will autoscale it based on usage. This helps you with no downtime on anything.

What do you dislike about Salesforce Heroku?

I dislike that Heroku is always trying to upsell you on features you may not need. To the uneducated, they'll opt into unnessacary features that are otherwise free.

What problems is Salesforce Heroku solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use Heroku to deploy our custom application that keeps track of all of our technicians and clients. Heroku allows our technicians to access the app online anywhere. Compared to a regular server such as Godaddy. Heroku has allowed to to deploy a full stack application without the need of all the technical skills needed for AWS. It's the backbone of our business, and without Heroku hosting our application, we wouldn't be able to operated at the margins we currently at.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Nov 05, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.0
Colin R. avatar
Colin R.
Sales Associate
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"It's been great! Works well."
What do you like best about Salesforce Heroku?

I really like how I can deploy my projects directly from Heroku.

What do you dislike about Salesforce Heroku?

I dislike how I have to use a separate service for my repository, like GitHub, rather than having everything inclusive.

What problems is Salesforce Heroku solving and how is that benefiting you?

Heroku has made it possible for me to set my locally hosted pages public.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Dec 31, 2018
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.0
DC
Derek C.
Associate For Proffesional Service Opperations
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"Sales Force Review"
What do you like best about Salesforce Heroku?

That it is so easy to manage and go back and force between data I am looking up.

What do you dislike about Salesforce Heroku?

That some of the updates are not at the level they should be for the product to be running to the best of its ability.

What problems is Salesforce Heroku solving and how is that benefiting you?

Salesforce allows me to schedule the people in my company to go to the schools they need to be. It allows me to give them the time and the directions of where and what time the person needs to be.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Oct 28, 2017
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Overall Rating:
4.0
SM
Stjepan M.
Senior Consultant / Product Support Team Lead
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"Great tool for faster processing"
What do you like best about Salesforce Heroku?

The ability to process outside of SFDC and avoid hitting the governing limits

What do you dislike about Salesforce Heroku?

Sometimes it requires large technical knowledge to implement

What problems is Salesforce Heroku solving and how is that benefiting you?

Processing of large volumes of data

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Oct 25, 2016
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Overall Rating:
4.0
HY
Haibo Y.
Senior Software Engineer
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"Very nice and powerful cloud platform"
What do you like best about Salesforce Heroku?

Easy installtion of plugins and add-ons. Powerful metrics to monitor the app. Detailed sample apps and code for start a new application

What do you dislike about Salesforce Heroku?

The database support is powerful, but the free account only have few options to use the postgree sql.

What problems is Salesforce Heroku solving and how is that benefiting you?

I used Heroku to host one of my previous ios app's server. It's useful for small-scale apps and it's free. It also provide powerful entries for app owners to monitor the app statistics.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jan 30, 2016
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.0
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Alonso P.
Desarrollador De Software
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"Interesting Tools. A Different way to work"
What do you like best about Salesforce Heroku?

The best thing that I Like about Heroku is once you do the changes and adds on the project to connect to the Data Base, You can work locally as server with the same Data Base. It is a very practical way to work, and you do the push to heroku master when you think it is necessary that all features are build in a correct way to check on web.

What do you dislike about Salesforce Heroku?

Something that really dislike is the missing points of documentation to get a correct way to develop a project, specially on Django/Python.

What problems is Salesforce Heroku solving and how is that benefiting you?

I've been working on a project with Django/Python and let me work easily, like I'm not using Heroku, that is one of the greatest benefits about it, because once you got anything under control Heroku + Project, it lets you work quickly, allowing you to take care another things to getting a better development.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jan 23, 2016
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Overall Rating:
4.0
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Rebecca S.
Software Engineer
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"Instant deployment at higher prices"
What do you like best about Salesforce Heroku?

For those with the budget to pay for the cost of Heroku, Heroku provides a number of very convenient features for developers such as instant deployment. Heroku integrates seamlessly into Git, the state-of-the-art version control system that many teams are switching to. Integrating version control system into deployment is an enormous advantage. Then deployment becomes a one-step process and is less to learn for developers. Deployment itself, rather than the code, can sometimes present an issue.

What do you dislike about Salesforce Heroku?

I dislike that Salesforce App Cloud: Heroku Enterprise is more expensive than other kinds of deployment tools. As a result, some teams use AWS and we may switch to AWS or another cloud service when our usage becomes high enough to require a paid tier of Heroku's plans.

What problems is Salesforce Heroku solving and how is that benefiting you?

We would like to use a quick and easy deployment platform. Heroku presents a quick and easy deployment platform. We are also on a small enough Heroku plan that budget is a non-issue. My team is prototyping our software and usage is small enough for us to remain on the free tier of Heroku. We also like using Git and making deployment a seamless component of the Git pushing process.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jan 22, 2016
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Overall Rating:
4.0
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Joel Y.
Developer
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"Web app deployment "
What do you like best about Salesforce Heroku?

Ease of use, you just need to follow the guideline and upload your code. No need for setting up server or database infrastructure. All you need is install the PostgreSQL plugins from Heroku then you are Good to go

What do you dislike about Salesforce Heroku?

more expensive than setting up your own infrastructure such as on AWS

What problems is Salesforce Heroku solving and how is that benefiting you?

Creating a web app, ease of creating a web app and free of charge for basic version

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jan 22, 2016
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Overall Rating:
4.0
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Edd T.
Lead Software Developer
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"Simple, Robust and Effective"
What do you like best about Salesforce Heroku?

The time it takes to move from an idea to MVP is very quick when building on a product like Heroku. With its support for side-projects through it's free tier - moving up to highly performant, concurrent, distributed systems - Heroku manages the app at all stages of it's life. If something isn't directly possible on Heroku, it mostly likely is through their addons.

What do you dislike about Salesforce Heroku?

- We've occasionally struggled in the past trying to send requests from Heroku to services which require a static IP - but this problem can be avoided by setting up a proxy with an ip (but it's a pain). - Setting up TLS certificates require an extra cost (as they require an addon) which in the day-and-age of letsencrypt, I think is a shame.

What problems is Salesforce Heroku solving and how is that benefiting you?

As a start-up in the property sector, Heroku has allowed us to focus on the business logic of building an online collaborative workspace, rather than worry about the infrastructure. In times of high demand we can scale the 'dyno' count to manage. Given out industry, we have low usage over weekends and evenings - which we can save in cost by scaling down.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jan 15, 2016
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Overall Rating:
4.0
Timothy S. avatar
Timothy S.
Principal Developer Advocate
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"Heroku for PaaS"
What do you like best about Salesforce Heroku?

Heroku is insanely easy to use, has a ton of buildpacks which you can fork and make your own. it supports python, ruby, java and all the languages you want to develop. You write a normal local web app, add one file and use a CLI to push. Everything is simple and fast and nothing weird.

What do you dislike about Salesforce Heroku?

It would be nice to have a GUI, more free options, free data services and open source container.

What problems is Salesforce Heroku solving and how is that benefiting you?

Develop and deploy applications quickly without internal red tape or setup issues. This was realized, very fast and easy to deploy applications in a production mode. Also Heroku works very well for Facebook applications.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Jan 15, 2016
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Overall Rating:
4.0
DB
Dan B.
Business Analyst, Innovation R&D
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"Quickly develop a production quality application with minimal knowledge of DevOps"
What do you like best about Salesforce Heroku?

Heroku is finely customizable to a number of modern programming language such as Ruby, Node.js, PHP and Go. Users get quite a bit of functionality of the free tier which easily meets the needs of smaller personal applications. A single dyno is generally sufficient for these purposes. Heroku also offers a fairly large catalogue of add-ons to integrate with applications, and database integration is a snap with Postgres.

What do you dislike about Salesforce Heroku?

The pricing model at Heroku should probably be revisited. Users with the hobby or free tier can generally extract quite a few features out of the service to fit the needs of personal applications, but the professional level infrastructure scheme is a bit nebulous. Premium support options also make lower-tier subscribers feel neglected when trying to contact support.

What problems is Salesforce Heroku solving and how is that benefiting you?

Heroku's Platform-as-a-service has functioned well as a standup environment in the smaller innovation development team that I have been a part of, but I suspect that larger enterprise development teams will likely side with vendors with more corporate recognition such as Microsoft Azure or Openshift.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jan 15, 2016
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Overall Rating:
4.0
DA
Duncan A.
Cto
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"Quick and easy deployment (on the whole)"
What do you like best about Salesforce Heroku?

Wealth of add-ons and ease of setup are great. Pushing from code straight to development was a novelty for me when I started off and now with docker support this is even better. The database handling is superb. I like the way the product has improved over the years with current technology being supported.

What do you dislike about Salesforce Heroku?

I dislike the random nature of the routing algorithm, it could be much smarter. Sometimes a request gets stuck behind a slow request. It is hard to gauge the capacity needed at times due to this. I hate the 30 second restriction which although it makes sense from their end does not lend itself well to be fully compatible with all open source libraries in our stack. This tends to make customisations a must which is a pain. Can get very expensive unless you manage dynos well.

What problems is Salesforce Heroku solving and how is that benefiting you?

The main problem is a SaaS platform with global reach. The main benefit has been the ease with which we can deliver updated code and new features..

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jan 07, 2016
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Overall Rating:
4.0
DB
Dave B.
Manager, Software Development Engineering
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"Simple and easy to use but watch for costs "
What do you like best about Salesforce Heroku?

Super easy way to get an environment up and running for most startups using the web on a variety of hosts such as Node or Rails. Maintenance and simple integration with GitHub are also pretty good. Also has a rich supply of add-ons to make life easy, such as MQ, DB's etc.

What do you dislike about Salesforce Heroku?

It's so easy to use you need to be disciplined at making sure you clean up after yourself to avoid spiraling costs. For example, if you create a follower DB to us as a backup, make sure you delete it after use! Does not really give you any detailed metrics on server performance, some basic stuff is there, but you have to pay for something like New Relic to get more detail.

What problems is Salesforce Heroku solving and how is that benefiting you?

In a startup environment, agility rules, and Heroku offers just that.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Dec 14, 2015
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Overall Rating:
4.0
MP
Miguel P.
Software Engineer
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"Devops as a Service, push, deploy and done!"
What do you like best about Salesforce Heroku?

Lets you have a performant production server with a couple clicks, no devops knowledge needed. Has tons of plugins for all your needs: Database (Heroku Postgres), Cache (Redis), Monitorization (NewRelic), emails (Mailgun), SSL… Provides lots of documentation to set up apps in a variety of languages, and covers things like using several environments, tuning your memory usage, deploying from Dropbox, and more. Together with a auto-scaling plugin like HireFire, it can manage your app as usage goes up and down, and you'll never be overwhelmed by a traffic spike, or spend more than you need on valley hours.

What do you dislike about Salesforce Heroku?

The pricing is a little high, especially if you want to use the dedicated dynos, which increase performance and decrease response time dramatically. We've also been bit by downtimes a couple times in the past year, being fully managed by them there's not much to do once it goes down. Also, since it runs on AWS ,if that goes down Heroku does too.

What problems is Salesforce Heroku solving and how is that benefiting you?

I can save lots of tiie configuring, testing and deploying servers on AWS or providers like Digital Ocean, while focusing on developing the app itself, which is what brings value after all.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
May 29, 2015
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Overall Rating:
4.0
JM
John G. M.
Creative Director
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"Great for Rails..."
What do you like best about Salesforce Heroku?

I like the fact that Heroku work great for Rails. I like the Heroku interface and the simplicity of the platform.

What do you dislike about Salesforce Heroku?

The cost. Lower the prices or Digital Ocean will eat your cheese.

What problems is Salesforce Heroku solving and how is that benefiting you?

I do rapid web developemt and elLearning development. HTML5 and content development services.