Heroku used to be an excellent choice for many developers who wanted to release and deploy their applications quickly. In recent years, we’ve also seen the rise of deployment platforms like Vercel, which are more modern, lightweight and easy to use but designed for front-end applications. A full-stack alternative in this space is Railway, a PaaS cloud platform that streamlines everything from GitHub/Docker deployment to production observability.
Railway supports most mainstream programming frameworks, databases as well as containerized deployment. As a long-term hosted platform for an application, you may need to compare the costs of different platforms carefully. At present, our team has had a good experience with Railway's deployment and observability. The operation is smooth and can be well integrated with the continuous deployment practices we advocate.
