Top 5 Alternatives to Heroku

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Heroku

Heroku is a great company; they blazed the trail for a commercially sustainable cloud service like PaaS in an industry where technology is changing rapidly. For a couple of years now, there is no point denying the fact that PaaS had fulfilled so many business needs. I really don’t think there is anything they’ve not done as a cloud service provider, but recently, I began to notice a trend in the developer communities, a lot of developers are searching for Heroku alternative which led to the question why are more developers searching for Heroku alternative? In this article, you’ll learn why they search for more alternatives, the available alternative and a comparison table on their pros and cons and how they compete with Heroku.

#Cloud Computing #Cloud Hosting #VPS 71 social mentions

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Back4App

Back4app is BaaS, (Backend as a service) the world’s most popular Parse hosting and serverless database platform. It provides a fully managed backend featuring automated provisioning and scaling of Parse Server applications, backup and recovery, 24/7 monitoring and alerting, web-based management tools and support. The advantages of Back4app are much more the same as Parse, but it comes with many other additional features like a user-friendly dashboard, the ability to scale app and 24/7 support.

#Backend As A Service #Mobile Backend #Low Code 1 social mentions

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AWS Elastic Beanstalk

#Cloud Hosting #Cloud Computing #Backend As A Service 37 social mentions

4

Google App Engine

Google App Engine is fast, easy, but not that very cheap. The pricing is reasonable, and it comes with a free tier, which is great for small projects that are right for beginner developers who want to quickly set up their apps. It can also auto scale, create new instances as needed and automatically handle high availability. App Engine gets a positive rating for performance from users from developer communities. Another good feature is ease of integration of various Google apps through Google’s Cloud Datastore, which is securely integrated with App Engine.

#Cloud Computing #Cloud Hosting #Backend As A Service 26 social mentions

5

Firebase

Automatic Notifications: Firebase Notifications is a free service built on its Cloud Messaging (FCM) and the FCM SDK, enabling targeted user notifications for mobile app developers. Without manual messaging Firebase keeps two systems synchronized through automatic update notifications.

#Developer Tools #App Development #Backend As A Service 248 social mentions