The matchup desk
DigitalOcean App Platform or Heroku
Two tools, read side by side from their own public pages.
DigitalOcean App Platform
Hosting
A fully managed PaaS for building, deploying, and scaling web applications, APIs, and static sites.
- Git-based deployments
- Built-in CI/CD
- Horizontal scaling
- CPU-based autoscaling
- Automatic HTTPS
- Custom domains
- Automatic OS patching
- Application metrics
Heroku
Hosting
Heroku is a fully managed application platform for building, deploying, and scaling apps.
- Managed runtime
- Heroku Postgres
- Key-value store
- Autoscaling
- Add-ons
- Buildpacks
- Fast rollback
- App metrics