Practical Microservices

Creating the Heroku “App”

It’s quite possible that you haven’t heard of or have never used Heroku. It’s a platform-as-a-service company, or PaaS for short. If you’ve ever used a cloud provider like Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, Digital Ocean, or Linode, then you’ve experienced deploying code to a cloud provider. Heroku is similar, only you exchange the high degree of control and responsibility you have over your instances for a very smooth deployment experience. You don’t have to provision instances, do all the security hardening, etc. You just easily push code. Of course, sometimes you need that finer degree of control. We don’t right now, so we won’t bother with it.

Now, we won’t walk through signing up for an account there. ...