🆚 Heroku vs. Railway

Heroku is a cloud platform as a service (PaaS) that enables developers to build, run, and scale web applications without managing underlying infrastructure.

It provides isolated containers called Dynos, which are based on LXC (older Cedar generation) and Kubernetes (new Fir generation), and managed data services including Postgres, Key-Value Store, and Apache Kafka.

Railway is a deployment platform that helps developers manage applications through the full lifecycle using Git-native workflows, composable infrastructure, and built-in observability tools.

It supports building from GitHub repositories or Docker images, provisioning and managing databases, automatic vertical and horizontal autoscaling, and offers over 1,700 deployment templates in its marketplace.

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

• ⭐ 4th most popular in the Netherlands in the Deployment Platforms category.
• ⭐ 4th most popular in Sweden in the Deployment Platforms category.
• ⭐ 5th most popular in the United Kingdom in the Deployment Platforms category.
• ⭐ 5th most popular in Brazil in the Deployment Platforms category.
• ⭐ 5th most popular in Japan in the Deployment Platforms category.

• ⭐ 8th most popular in the United States in the Deployment Platforms category.
• ⭐ 10th most popular in the United Kingdom in the Deployment Platforms category.

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