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
October 2007
Heroku rolls out in private beta.
2009
April 2009
Heroku launches commercially with support for Ruby.
October 2009
Over 35,000 apps are running on Heroku.
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
June 2011
Node.js is officially supported on Heroku.
July 2011
Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto, chief designer of Ruby, joins Heroku as Chief Architect, Ruby.
Clojure becomes the third official language on Heroku.
August 2011
Java is officially supported on Heroku.
September 2011
Python joins the list of officially supported languages.
October 2011
Scala is officially supported.
November 2011
Heroku Postgres launches as a standalone product.
2012
January 2012
The Twelve-Factor App is published.
September 2012
The Heroku Dashboard is introduced.
2013
May 2013
The Heroku Platform API is available in public beta.
2014
July 2014
Heroku officially supports PHP.
September 2014
Two-factor Authentication is generally available.
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.
July 2015
Heroku officially supports Go.
September 2015
Heroku Flow is released: Heroku Pipelines, Heroku Review Apps, and GitHub Sync.
2016
January 2016
Heroku Private Spaces is released.
June 2016
Heroku Teams is released.
December 2016
PostgreSQL 9.6 is generally available on Heroku.
2017
January 2017
Heroku Autoscaling for web dynos is released.
March 2017
Automated Certificate Management is available for paid apps with custom domains.
May 2017
Heroku CI is released.
June 2017
Heroku Shield for high compliance apps is released.
July 2017
Heroku ChatOps for Slack is released.
August 2017
Heroku Postgres is updated: configuration, credentials, and CI.
November 2017
PCI Compliance for Heroku Shield is announced.
December 2017
PostgreSQL 10 is generally available on Heroku.
2018
January 2018
Heroku Postgres PGX plans are released.
March 2018
oclif CLI framework is open sourced.
August 2018
Heroku achieves ISO and SOC2 Type I certification.
November 2018
Building Docker images with heroku.yml is released.
2019
March 2019
PostgreSQL 11 is generally available on Heroku.
April 2019
The new Dataclips is released.
May 2019
Heroku Postgres via PrivateLink is generally available.
September 2019
Heroku Enterprise Accounts is generally available.
October 2019
Apache Kafka on Heroku Shield is released.
November 2019
Heroku data services integrations using mutual TLS and PrivateLink is generally available.
2020
June 2020
Heroku Shield Redis is released.
Heroku Review Apps is updated: public API, greater automation, and easier access.
October 2020
Heroku Streaming Data Connectors are generally available.
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