Top Salesforce Heroku Alternatives and Overview

From socializing to shopping, mobile and web apps have become an integral part of human lives. Whether your customers embrace your apps or don’t can be a make or break point for your company. So, what is vital is that your developers dedicate their time to building superior user experience when developing apps. Heroku focuses on providing amazing developer experience and takes away the distraction of hardware and servers. From handling compilations to executables, this platform as a service (PaaS) from the industry’s leading cloud computing CRM service provider Salesforce helps companies deliver engaging and sophisticated apps.

Enabling Developers with Heroku DX

Heroku allows deployment, configuration, running, and scaling (both, vertical and horizontal) of apps written in either of the open languages of the present-day app economy such as Ruby, Java, Python, Scala, Go, PHP, Clojure, and Node.js. Development flow becomes seamless as there is integration into developer tools such as Dropbox, GitHub, git, and Docker. Platform APIs and analytical metrics further ease the process of customization and problem-solving. Managing who can access and edit which app also becomes effortless with Heroku Enterprise. So, all in all, developers need not face any infrastructure headache.  

Privacy-driven scaling of data

Apps run with data, both customer data as well as data about its functionalities and services. Heroku makes the availability of data easier with its managed data services like Heroku Postgres and Redis. With tools like forking, automated health checks, data clips, etc. and premium features like failover, developers have immediate access to a scalable database. Private Spaces on the platform protect sensitive data with secure connections and private runtimes.

Extending app capabilities and being connected with Salesforce

Want messaging services, automatic backups, third party libraries, additional languages, or search metrics? Heroku has an answer to all: Heroku Elements. With Heroku Elements, developers can build app faster, improve app functionalities, and add more features in no time. They can choose from a multitude of add-ons, buttons, and build packs, whatever they deem suitable for the app. And, what makes the applications built on Heroku more engaging? The bilateral data synchronization between Heroku and Salesforce. By being connected with Salesforce, you can give your customers a versatile cross-platform experience.

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