Heroku

Once you are ready to take on more traffic or need fault tolerance, you can graduate your application to the main Heroku platform.

Salesforce (CRM) is trying to create a platform both through internal efforts on Force. com and acquisitions (e. g. , Heroku).

The product is tightly integrated with Heroku, allowing customers to see their New Relic performance data from within the Heroku console.

Heroku's Java offering discards the full Java EE stack for a simple servlet-based approach, using Jetty as the embedded Servlet Container.

Developers working on top of Google App Engine and Heroku never have to think about servers, virtual or physical.

I highly recommend them for starter applications, especially ones that are still testing out the market.

Heroku and Morph Labs are Ruby on Rails hosting providers, offering a complete environment for running Ruby on Rails applications.

Another important feature Heroku and Morph Labs accentuate is the painless deployment you get.

Heroku is hands down the easiest deployment platform for Rails apps.

An very interesting feature of Heroku is its browser-based development environment.

RhoHub allows developers to generate, edit and build their mobile apps from a hosted web page (similar to the idea of Heroku).

Heroku handles everything, from version control and collaboration to auto-scaling (built on top of Amazon's EC2).

Tonight's alumni guests include the founders of Heroku, members of the winter 2008 YC class.

Heroku has simply given me the time to support it when needed and encouragement to keep going.

Heroku has and will continue to play a significant role in validating the use of Ruby in the enterprise.