Salesforce Heroku Reviews & Product Details

Real time sync between salesforce and heroku enterprise. Linking up objects using indirect/external look up relationships so that we can access the data inside of salesforce. Options to limit sync transactions. Creating multiple applications within the same org etc.,

Implementation is not an easy task with heroku here as you need to be completely aware of heroku platform and its capabilities. You need to change some settings on both the sides. But as we have a few trailhead chapters specially for training, it is of a lot of help

our service analyst used to have a real time reporting system which was complex but now our team has rolled out a partially new tool for the same purpose. They are finding it easy to observe the real time insights with heroku quick sync

I like that provisioning of any web application or service is very easy. You souldn't learn how to configure the servers or how to customize them to give you the best performance. On Heroku Enterprise you can, also, increase the scalability of any application and the support team is very very experienced and helps you with any thing regarding network issues, downtimes, servers configuration, so on.

I and my team didn't find any issues or things that we dislike until now.

My team doesn't need to configure the servers for our application. Continuous integration, testing servers, mail server, GIT server, Sonar server installation is very complicated for a huge application environment. With Heroku Enterprise, we just configure elelments and we are up to go if we want to extend features.

Easy to setup and use. It works as a charm to add new features or plugins. Well documented and easy to understand. Makes development easy since it gives you all the needed resources to do so.

It is still difficult for me to understand what a dyno is. It is not well documented and I have not seen any good explanation on it.

I'm using it to deploy all my business products, applications and websites. Since it is very easy to use and deploy it has reduce the amount of tools needed. All the programming languages are great and it is great for scalability.

The leader in the emerging platform-as-a-service industry is Heroku, an extensible and well-connected cloud hosting platform that makes deploying and managing applications in several popular languages almost effortless. It has made great strides since its inception as a Ruby-only application hosting platform to include support for Python, Node.js, Java and PHP multiple languages. Heroku has a freemium model, and invariably, Ruby enthusiasts who try out Heroku, invariably get hooked on to it and start using more and more resources and move to the premium offering.

No other services can be run on dynos. Dynos are strictly for application processes. Databases, background workers, and other services usually cost extra through Heroku’s add-ons or third party services. No way to install system software. Heroku does provide some commonly-used packages such as Imagemagick, but if you need anything else, you’ll have to resort to hacks.

Modern Platform-as-a-Service for Enterprise Application Development. Corporate app dev teams can enjoy all of the core Heroku benefits — including smart containers, instant scalability, powerful developer tools and workflow, pre-integrated add-ons, and data services — with added collaboration functionality, additional control features, and enterprise grade support. Now enterprises can build highly engaging, disruptive apps as easily as startups.

How easy it is to deploy and quick you can get a web app up and running.

It is very expensive and it can difficult to troubleshoot at times.

The business problem is how do you quickly and easily deploy a web app.

support for existing development languages, ease of deployment, plug & play assembly of apps using standard components. The Patterns they released were great. The new Elements are awesome. Excited to see where this grows!

What's not to like? Love it. I wish the Heroku Connect was cheaper - but that will come in time.

It's my swiss-army nice to solve lots of "edge of the system" use cases - without having to use a bunch of 3rd party tools that each have their own issues / licensing, etc. Able to rapidly prototype a mobile proof of concept for a prospective customer - then quickly iterate it into production and scale it up.

Heroku enforces the best practices listed in the 12 factor app. It makes it really easy to build a completely decoupled app. I like how it encourages using addons for different services. It might lead to a higher cost in the longer run but you can always replace an addon with your own service.

Sometimes debugging is hard because I can't ssh into the running dyno. Also, I noticed that sometimes the dyno would just become very sluggish for a few seconds. Turns out it's because another app is starving our app of CPU time. This went away after switching to performance dynos, but those are very expensive.

I work in the mobile payments space. As a startup, we had a very small tech team and heroku allowed us to focus on development and features rather than devops.

setup time, ease of use, no maintenance, easy backup management

I can't really think of anything. I guess that if I started scaling this service will start being a bit expansive

Rails website with postgres. using the pg backups. the best benefits are simply deploying fast and simple no annoying setup time. start with a free package and go on from there.

All rails developers know the virtues of Heroku and will tell you it's one of the great things about building in RoR.

I think Heroku's tiered pricing structure should be more favorable to smaller datasets. The bd im currently working with has about 200k rows and this puts me in the third pricing bracket. And this app has no funding so this will come out of pocket. I think people at my level should still be first or second tier and then up the rates on customers who are truely big data.

It takes a lot of the fragmentation out of hosting and is basically the one stop shop for launching RoR apps.

Incredibly simple to deploy and get started. Easy to roll back to previous versions. Quickly scales up and down dynos.

PostgreSQL was at times less than ideal. Implementing applications to monitor my applications was a bit tricky. Dynos sleep if they aren't active

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I wanted to try Heroku for a long time and I finally got a chance when I built a Facebook application. The best thing I like about Heroku is that it's Free to start. Though I don't understand about their dyno-hour concept yet (I haven't started using any database offerings), I love the easiness to host your domain. I , as a startup hosted my domain on Heroku. It was free and easy to use. I like the git integration and activity feed. Their articles look good too. Try creating a facebook app on Facebook to know what I mean.

Allowing the users to map Heroku apps to user's naked domain instead of a sub domain would be nice.

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Heroku is a great for having a place to start and trying out new things and ideas that you are looking to being to market. Then, once you know what you're doing, it's an even better for bringing things to market.

As great as Heroku is, there could be more documentation and tutorials on integrating the different programming languages into one

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Easy implementation and ease of mantainance.

I face a bit of dificullty when my trial application crashed down and to find out the cause it costed me alot.

Simplified development process with a ready-built infrastructure, integrated data services, and a great ecosystem of add-ons and extensions.

Salesforce Heroku provide best interface to transfer data to and from Salesforce to heroku database

Salesforce can provide more details regarding this application to use it easily

It transfer the data from Salesforce to heroku database and also keep it in Salesforce.

Heroku is a PaaS solution for full-stack apps, which means that frontend, backend, and databases may all be deployed on the platform, which most other platforms, such as Netlify and Vercel, do not support. Salesforce Heroku enables us to build bespoke apps with high performance, seamless integration, and low latency. All connectors function via event bus integration, allowing Heroku applications to produce events on our Salesforce platform. Another point in favor of this software is its support team, they always do a good job.

Apps may go to sleep if there is no user engagement for a lengthy period of time, and dealing with Salesforce Heroku has a high learning curve. Experience is required to select which connection to utilize to translate our Salesforce object fields to the table and how to monitor its activity.

Heroku makes it simple for me to swiftly launch my professional full-stack apps by providing readily configurable PaaS solutions, and unlike AWS, I don't have to worry about exorbitant expenses due to complicated design. Through its inbuilt data connections, we can simply combine both internal Salesforce applications and external third-party apps. We can also use Heroku to generate Lightning web components and perform Apex HTTP requests asynchronously.

The best thing about heroku its a easy to use platform for deploying your apps. I have used it a lot for deploying backend of my apps. You also get lots of tutorials related deployment over heroku, then it also beocmes easy.

The only thing I dislike about heroku is adding your payment cards. I tried different cards, cards of my friends as well but none of them worked. I really don't understand what kind of payment card they need.

Heroku is making easy for deploying projects in just a few minutes. You don't need to worry about RAM, Os at all. They just take your code & make it prodution ready in just a few minutes. Although it is paid now but I deployed a lot of my college projects here.

Heroku provides direct optionality to deploy your application with a specific programming language. No config setup or infrastructure maintenance. Good options for limited-scope applications.

Can't deploy massive or large-scale applications as the optionality to config the application is limited. Multiple functionalities like Multi-AZ or load balancer is not there.

For limited-scope products or MVPs where the application is in the ideation phase and doesn't require the DevOps team to monitor it continuously. Applications with small user base can also be catered to.

Heroku is an excellent platform for deploying web applications. It's user-friendly, scalable, and offers a wide range of integrations. With its reliable infrastructure and supportive community, Heroku simplifies the deployment process, allowing developers to focus on building great apps. Highly recommended.

Lacking security controls, especially who can access different addons, and auditing

We are hosting various web apps and apis as well as databases

- easy setup - easy scaling of platform - community and plugin support is fantastic - support is very helpful

- with standardization, you lose customizability - not every possible configuration is supported - permission and extension restrictions on some plugins, like heroku postgres - can get expensive to scale vertically (bigger machines) instead of horizontally (more machines)

we're a startup, so our business goal is to increase product iteration speed without worrying about the infrastructure needed to support it. with heroku, we don't need to think too much about how our product changes will affect the infrastructure - not because that's not important, but because we can ship and unship product changes without having to make permanent changes to our infrastructure. this lets us move forward quickly even with a small development team. if you're a 500-person tech team, maybe you have the bandwidth to work on your own infrastructure and the marginal benefits of custom builds outweigh the costs, but for us, heroku gives us the right trade-off between customizability and scalability.

It is a fantastic sync tool for SFDC and our proprietary app! We have several one and two way syncs between many different objects within Salesforce, both custom objects and standard.

The sync can sometimes be slow; additionally, debugging can be hard when there are issues. I do wish that there was the ability to create custom dashboards, so that we could track higher priority issues.

We did not want to build our own sync between Salesforce and our proprietary app. We also didn't want to have to maintain the tool ourselves. This is helping us greatly with our syncs.