What is Slug?

Question

IT terminology

What is a slug? found in the settings on the host slug size 'Slug size 57.7 MiB of 500 MiB'. Google is just slugs. And why does it weigh so little?

Answer 1

slug in heroku is a package with your source code prepared by the slug compiler after you submit your source code to heroku. This package (slug) is then given to the orchestration system (dyno manager) to start the process (dyno). If you are familiar with different containers, then slug is similar to docker image, and dyno is similar to docker container
Hence the size requirement - no more than 500 MB

Answer 2

In fact, this is an alias in Latin with the possible use of numbers. For example, you have a product "Socks" and for display in the URL and in other cases, an alias (servants) of the "noski" type is made.
You can, of course, use the Cyrillic alphabet, but it’s like ... Not really!