Heroku Cloud Application Development

The Heroku feature set

Heroku is a fully featured PaaS that provides a complete stack of "true" PaaS features. The following are some of the core features available in Heroku:

• Heroku runtime features:
  • It enables flexible process control; scalable web and worker (type) processes (called dynos) run from a Procfile.
  • It allows a new process type to be defined such as web or worker type.
  • Process isolation—anything you store on your web process will be isolated from all other web processes.
  • Heroku even lets you run processes during the maintenance mode while serving the application users static page(s).
  • It provides fully functional multiple language support.
• Configuration:
  • Heroku does not use property files or hardcoded configuration variables to read system ...