Heroku

Manage Heroku apps, dynos, releases, and configuration to ship and operate your services.

development

Example use cases

What teams automate with Heroku

7 realistic workflows that combine Heroku with your other apps.

Engineering
After GitHub merges to main, promote the Heroku release, smoke-test in the web browser, and post status in Slack.
Ops
When Heroku dyno memory spikes, pull metrics from New Relic, scale via runbook in Notion, and track in Linear.
Engineering
When a Heroku deploy fails, read Mezmo logs, roll back in GitHub, and notify on-call in PagerDuty.
Security
Weekly rotate Heroku config vars, store secrets in AWS, and confirm services in Sentry stay quiet.
Engineering
Before each release, run Bitrise against staging Heroku, verify Firebase remote config, and tag in Linear.
Support
When Intercom reports API errors, check Heroku health, trace in New Relic, and reply with incident status in Slack.
Data
Nightly compare Heroku request volume to Snowflake usage, flag anomalies in Linear, and share a digest in Slack.

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