This chapter helped us experiment with what we learned in the earlier part of this book. We were able to build a web app using the Java toolset and demonstrated how easy it is to get up and running with the development of the Heroku cloud application in no time. Wasn't it easy?

Choose any programming language that Heroku supports and the ease of building apps would be no different. In that sense, Heroku does not reinvent the wheel for developers, but it creates the right platform, makes the right add-ons available, and helps you deploy web apps almost effortlessly. All that a developer needs to worry about is how to write the business logic of the app; no platform idiosyncrasies, no cumbersome installations of third-party software, and no sleepless nights managing new releases/deploys.

In the next chapter, we will look in detail at the software ecosystem surrounding Heroku. We will learn how to write web apps in a cloud IDE, giving you an end-to-end cloud-based development experience...