What is Heroku?
Heroku is a container-based cloud Platform as a Service (PaaS). Developers use Heroku to deploy, manage, and scale modern apps. Our platform is elegant, flexible, and easy to use, offering developers the simplest path to getting their apps to market.
Heroku is fully managed, giving developers the freedom to focus on their core product without the distraction of maintaining servers, hardware, or infrastructure. The Heroku experience provides services, tools, workflows, and polyglot support—all designed to enhance developer productivity.
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Our philosophy
At Heroku, we believe that great apps come from inspired and productive developers. That’s why everything we do is focused on building a platform, ecosystem, and set of tools that support the best possible developer experience. Every aspect of our platform is designed to remove mundane tasks and provide tools that maximize productivity.
Developer productivity
The Heroku platform provides a set of capabilities that deliver higher-order value. With Heroku, there is no need to learn about server configuration, network management, or tuning the latest version of a database. Heroku removes obstacles so developers can focus on what they do best: building great apps.
Meticulous design
Every detail of the Heroku experience, from capabilities to tools to workflows, is thoughtfully designed to delight developers and maximize productivity.
Developer experience
Whether developers want to experiment with new ideas or deploy business-critical apps, Heroku helps make app development more than just a job—we make using our platform a rewarding experience, one that gives developers the freedom to stay focused and produce their best work.
Heroku handles more than 60 billion requests every day
That's more than 600,000 requests every second.
Our crew
Heroku is built, maintained, and championed by 300+ talented people who are passionate about what they do. As Herokai (Heroku staff), we are focused on technical and operational excellence, with customer success as our north star. We’re united by a shared purpose to make developers lives easier so they can build great apps.
Why work on Heroku?
Ask any one of us and you’ll hear many reasons, like our passion for developer innovation, designing elegant user experiences, and a diverse set of world-class colleagues. Here are a few important ones:
- Our culture is collaborative, flexible, and fun.
- Our work provides opportunities for challenge and growth.
- Our team contributes expertise to a wide variety of open-source projects.
- Our company invests in our professional and personal well-being.
- Our products are simply the best in their class.
Heroku is a business unit of Salesforce, our extended family, which expands our ability to make an impact with developers, businesses, and the app economy.
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Our ecosystem
As part of our commitment to developer productivity, Heroku provides opportunities to extend our runtime platform with additional code, tools, and services that help accelerate app development. An ecosystem of contributors, from individual developers to well-known technology companies, provide a broad range of offerings to our community in the Heroku Elements Marketplace.
We are always seeking new contributions to add to the wealth of technical resources available to Heroku developers. There are two ways to join our ecosystem:
"Heroku Elements represents the state of the art when it comes to giving developers the ability to discover add-on services like New Relic to leverage the power of software analytics and more."
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Developers around the world are using Heroku to actively tap the potential of modern app development and deliver amazing digital experiences. Developers have created over 13 million apps on Heroku, serving billions of requests per day. Our customers range from startups to industry giants and everyone in-between, and their stories inspire the next wave of groundbreaking apps.
Our history
Heroku was founded in 2007 by Orion Henry, James Lindenbaum, and Adam Wiggins. The company was acquired by Salesforce in 2011, and the Heroku platform is now part of Salesforce Platform.
2007
July 2007
Heroku is founded by James Lindenbaum, Adam Wiggins, and Orion Henry
2009
April 2009
Heroku launches commercially with support for Ruby.
2010
May 2010
Over 60,000 apps are running on Heroku.
September 2010
Heroku Add-ons are introduced.
November 2010
Heroku releases the PostgreSQL database add-on.
December 2010
Salesforce.com acquires Heroku.
2011
November 2011
Heroku Postgres launches as a standalone product.
2012
January 2012
The Twelve-Factor App is published, establishing a PaaS methodology.
September 2012
The Heroku Dashboard is introduced.
2014
September 2014
Heroku DX: Heroku Developer Experience is introduced.
December 2014
HTTP Git is introduced.
2015
February 2015
Heroku Enterprise is released.
April 2015
The Heroku Elements Marketplace launches.
May 2015
Heroku supports Docker.
June 2015
Heroku Redis is released.
September 2015
Heroku Flow is released: Heroku Pipelines, Heroku Review Apps, and GitHub Sync.
2017
May 2017
Heroku CI is released.
June 2017
Heroku Shield for high compliance apps is released.
November 2017
PCI Compliance for Heroku Shield is announced.
2018
March 2018
oclif CLI framework is open sourced.
June 2018
Heroku Shield Connect is released.
August 2018
Heroku achieves ISO and SOC2 Type I certification.
2019
April 2019
The new Dataclips is released.
May 2019
Heroku Postgres via PrivateLink is generally available.
November 2019
Heroku data services integrations using mutual TLS and PrivateLink is generally available.
2020
October 2020
Heroku Streaming Data Connectors are now available.
2021
April 2021
Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) - More options available for all Heroku customers.
2022
September 2022
Heroku Partners with GitHub to offer Student Developer Program.
November 2022
Eco and Mini Plans are made available.
2023
August 2023
Heroku CI and Heroku Teams become free for card paying customers
Heroku Private Spaces expands to India, Canada, Singapore, and the United Kingdom.
October 2023
pgvector extension for Heroku Postgres is launched.
November 2023
Heroku availability on AWS Marketplace is announced at AWS re:Invent.
2024
June 2024
Heroku Joins CNCF as a Platinum Member.