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So I looked at their product offerings and the Wikipedia page about Heroku and I'm still left scratching my head as to what it actually even is. They basically
by midislack 4y ago
So I looked at their product offerings and the Wikipedia page about Heroku and I'm still left scratching my head as to what it actually even is. They basically rent out other cloud computer providers' time at a higher price and make you use some kind of shitty middleware? Is that all this actually is? Please help me to understand what in the hell this even is.
- bin_bash 4y agoYou broadly have it right, but it's not "shitty" middleware, despite their problems the actual process of launching an app on Heroku is stellar and was especially groundbreaking 10 years ago. It would provision a server, install dependencies, configure, then launch your app just by pushing a git repository to them. They were the gold standard for rails deployments back in the day when rails was popular—which was important since rails was actually pretty hard to host on a server compared to say PHP.