Lecture 9: Intro to Heroku

Question 1

What is a dyno?

Answer 1

The basic instance or container used in

Heroku

Question 2

All dynos are ____ instances

Answer 2

Amazon EC2

Question 3

Who primarily uses Heroku?

Answer 3

Small business that want easy hosting and setup combined with scalability

Question 4

Heroku offers up to ____ free dyno hours per month in its free tier

Answer 4

1,000

Question 5

In the free tier, you can run __ dynos at once

Answer 5

2

Question 6

What are the two types of dynos?

Answer 6

• Web

- Work

Question 7

What are web dynos responsible for?

Answer 7

Serving the web application to the end client

Question 8

What are worker dynos responsible for?

Answer 8

Non-web-related work (i.e. background jobs, fetching data from external sources, etc.)

Question 9

What are the benefits of using Heroku?

Answer 9

• Plug-and-play applications
• Full Git Integration
• Docker Integration

Question 10

Creating a Heroku application automatically creates a ___

Answer 10

private, Heroku-based repository

Question 11

What are 2 ways you can deploy your application?

Answer 11

• Git

- Docker

Question 12

What is causing the ‘death of heroku’?

Answer 12

Increased competition