Heroku

Heroku is a cloud-based Platform as a Service (PaaS) that simplifies the deployment, management and scaling of modern web applications. Developers push code to Heroku via Git or GitHub, and Heroku’s buildpacks automatically detect the language (such as Ruby, Node.js, Python, Java, Go or PHP), install dependencies and compile a runnable slug. Applications run in lightweight, isolated containers called dynos, which can be scaled horizontally or vertically on demand. The platform also offers a marketplace of add-ons (databases, caching, monitoring, logging, etc.), a web-based dashboard and a command-line interface, allowing teams to iterate quickly without managing underlying infrastructure.