Kaffeine: prevent heroku app from sleeping

Most apps on the cloud are sleeping as the platform provider idles an app if there’s not a request for a certain amount of time. Heroku’s threshold is 1 hour. I found several discussions on the web:

I first tried adding new relic to my heroku app, but it seems an overkill and was a bit involved to get it work.

Then, I found this “Kaffeine” and it worked for me. One limitation is that it’s only for heroku apps. http://kaffeine.herokuapp.com/

For other cloud providers, here are a few alternatives I found.