Heroku is a cloud service for hosting your applications. It is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) that supports auto-scaling and seamless deployment. Heroku is primarily uses Git to deploy applications. The platform provides developers with a cloud-based environment to code, test, and run applications without worrying about underlying infrastructure. Heroku can currently deploy apps written in the following languages : Applications that run on Heroku usually have a unique domain (typically “applicationname.herokuapp.com”) that routes HTTP requests to the correct dyno. The containers used at Heroku are called “dynos.” Dynos are isolated, virtualized Linux containers that are designed to execute code based on a user-specified command. Each of the application containers or dynos are spread across a “dyno grid” which consists …
