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Moving on from Heroku — Part 2
Evaluating CleverCloud for production
Jun 04, 2026
· ruby-on-rails, ruby, heroku, cloud-computing, cloud-migration
I work in a SaaS company with a strong foothold in the aviation industry. This article outlines an our evaluation process for moving a production SaaS application away from Heroku. The application in question is a large-scale Ruby on Rails system currently running primarily on Heroku. This post is the second part in a series documenting the platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and managed platform evaluation journey. It focuses on experiences with CleverCloud, a France-based provider. Please check out first edition of this series that focused on OVHCloud. Future installments will cover additional providers so stay tuned. CleverCloud. Clever Cloud, headquartered in Nantes, France, emerged during the initial evaluation of alternatives that aligned with the defined criteria. Unlike infrastructure-focused providers, Clever Cloud is a PaaS designed to simplify application deployment and operations...
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