This document discusses how to build a simple Sinatra web application and deploy it to Heroku. It introduces Sinatra as a lightweight Ruby web framework, provides example Sinatra code, and walks through setting up a Sinatra project with the necessary gems and files. It then explains how to use the Heroku gem to deploy the Sinatra application to Heroku with steps like creating a Heroku app, initializing a Git repository, and pushing the code to Heroku to launch the app.