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Heroku vs IBM Bluemix: What are the differences?
Developers describe Heroku as "Build, deliver, monitor and scale web apps and APIs with a trail blazing developer experience". Heroku is a cloud application platform – a new way of building and deploying web apps. Heroku lets app developers spend 100% of their time on their application code, not managing servers, deployment, ongoing operations, or scaling. On the other hand, IBM Bluemix is detailed as "*A cloud platform as a service *". It is an open standards, cloud platform for building, running, and managing apps and services. It supports several programming languages and services as well as integrated DevOps to build, run, deploy and manage applications on the cloud.
Heroku and IBM Bluemix belong to "Platform as a Service" category of the tech stack.
StackShare, Heroku, and Product Hunt are some of the popular companies that use Heroku, whereas IBM Bluemix is used by DevBlocks, NOALVO, and Campus Discounts. Heroku has a broader approval, being mentioned in 1883 company stacks & 5304 developers stacks; compared to IBM Bluemix, which is listed in 7 company stacks and 5 developer stacks.
Pros of Heroku
- Easy deployment703
- Free for side projects459
- Huge time-saver374
- Simple scaling348
- Low devops skills required261
- Easy setup190
- Add-ons for almost everything174
- Beginner friendly153
- Better for startups150
- Low learning curve133
- Postgres hosting48
- Easy to add collaborators41
- Faster development30
- Awesome documentation24
- Simple rollback19
- Focus on product, not deployment19
- Natural companion for rails development15
- Easy integration15
- Great customer support12
- GitHub integration8
- Painless & well documented6
- No-ops6
- I love that they make it free to launch a side project4
- Free4
- Great UI3
- Just works3
- PostgreSQL forking and following2
- MySQL extension2
- Security1
- Able to host stuff good like Discord Bot1
- Sec0
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Cons of Heroku
- Super expensive27
- Not a whole lot of flexibility9
- No usable MySQL option7
- Storage7
- Low performance on free tier5
- 24/7 support is $1,000 per month2
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