Answer (1 of 7): (Note: this answer was written in 2011 and I’m guessing a lot has changed since then) Well, since no one else answered, I decided to break out The Google and dig a little deeper. Here's my high-level interpretation of how Heroku works. It's based on public information, but I don...
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