Laravel on Heroku — Tip #1
On Heroku, you get environment variables for PostgreSQL, Redis, e.g.
You shouldn't add manually environment variables on Heroku for Database (like DB_HOST, DB_PORT, e.g.) and Redis (REDIS_HOST, e.g.).
Because you have to change these if you upgrade/downgrade these Heroku add-ons.
And more importantly, Heroku can change these environment variables at any time.
A better solution would be, add the following lines at the beginning of config/database.php
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