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Heroku vs Zipkin

A side-by-side look at Heroku and Zipkin. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Heroku

Heroku

Online Services

Heroku is a cloud platform as a service (PaaS) that simplifies application deployment, management, and scaling. Acquired by Salesforce, Heroku allows developers to focus on writing code by providing an easy-to-use platform for building, deploying, and scaling applications without the need for complex infrastructure management.

paascloud-computingapplication-deployment
Zipkin

Zipkin

Development

Zipkin is an open source distributed tracing system. It is used to gather timing data needed to troubleshoot latency problems in microservice architectures. Zipkin helps gather timing data related to inter-service calls and provides tools to visualize this data.

tracinglatencymicroservicesvisualization

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