Salesforce’s Heroku—the cloud platform powering 65M+ apps and 65B daily requests—is stepping into the AI era with a suite of new tools designed to accelerate AI application development.
Key Innovations for AI & Event-Driven Apps
1. Heroku AppLink (Pilot)
- Seamlessly connect AI agents (like Salesforce’s Agentforce) with custom logic via:
- Salesforce Flows
- Apex code
- Data Cloud integrations
- Brings multi-language flexibility to Salesforce AI deployments.
2. Heroku Eventing
- Simplifies event-based architectures with a centralized event hub.
- Publish/subscribe to events across Salesforce & external systems.
- Enables real-time AI workflows (e.g., triggers, automations).
3. Heroku Fir Generation
- Next-gen platform built on Kubernetes, Open Container Initiative (OCI), and OpenTelemetry.
- Global, secure, high-performance infrastructure for scalable AI apps.
Enhanced Developer Experience
🚀 VS Code Extension
- Build, deploy, and manage Heroku apps directly in VS Code.
- Reduces context-switching for faster development.
💻 Expanded .NET Support
- Full-stack .NET development (C#, F#, Visual Basic) via:
- .NET Core
- ASP.NET Core
📊 Heroku-Jupyter
- One-click Jupyter Notebook environments in the cloud.
- No storage hassles or complex setup—ideal for AI/ML prototyping.
Why This Matters
✅ Faster AI app development with low-code + pro-code flexibility.
✅ Real-time event-driven AI via Heroku Eventing.
✅ Enterprise-ready scalability on Kubernetes & OCI.
✅ Smoother dev workflows with VS Code & Jupyter integration.
Building AI apps? Heroku’s new platform cuts deployment time in half. Start today!