What Heroku is Good For

Heroku is a platform as a service (PaaS) ecosystem which currently supports Ruby, Java, Node.js, Scala,. Scala, Python, and. Go programming languages. Heroku provides over 175 add-on services to complement each app, including database, security, and messaging services. For this article, I will focus on four interesting aspects of Heroku: Buildpacks and Slugs. The application itself runs a Heroku dynos container, which is the heart of the Heroku platform.