Heroku (pronounced her-OH-koo) is a cloud application platform – a new way of building and deploying web apps. Heroku's service lets app developers spend 100% of their time on their application code, not managing servers, deployment, ongoing operations, or scaling. Though Heroku was acquired by Salesforce in 2011, it continues to operate independently from their SOMA office in San Francisco.
DigitalOcean, the fastest growing cloud infrastructure provider for developers, is now the second largest hosting provider in the world. The ranking comes from the latest report published by Netcraft, a respected authority on the market share of web servers, operating systems, and hosting providers.
Akka is a platform to build and run apps that are elastic, agile, and resilient. Industry titans and disruptors rely on Akka when application responsiveness must be guaranteed. Engineering teams use a simple SDK and powerful libraries to build transactional, durable, and real-time services that distribute logic and data together. Operations are fully automated in serverless and BYOC environments, and a self-hosted option is available.