Heroku Explained

Heroku functions as a cloud-based platform-as-a-service (PaaS) tool, streamlining the deployment, management, and scalability of contemporary applications. While the Salesforce Platform excels in developing apps for internal users, this tool specializes in crafting customer-facing applications.

Leveraging its container-based cloud platform, Heroku enables developers to create apps seamlessly integrating with Salesforce data through readily available connectors.

This container-based cloud Platform as a Service (PaaS) that enables developers to deploy, manage, and scale modern apps. Their platform is characterized by its elegance, flexibility, and user-friendly nature, providing developers with the simplest path to bring their apps to market.

A fully managed package, Heroku allows developers the freedom to concentrate on their core product without the hassle of maintaining servers, hardware, or infrastructure. The tool experience encompasses services, tools, workflows, and polyglot support—all tailored to enhance developer productivity. In addition to their officially supported languages, you can use any language that runs on Linux with the tool via a third-party buildpack. Developers, teams, and businesses of all sizes use Heroku to deploy, manage, and scale apps.

Your apps run inside smart containers in a fully managed runtime environment, we handle everything critical for production — configuration, orchestration, load balancing, failovers, logging, security, and more.

Reliable and secure PostgreSQL as a service with easy setup, encryption at rest, simple scaling, database forking, continuous protection, and more.

The most popular in-memory, key-value datastore — delivered as a service. Heroku Data for Redis provides powerful data types, great throughput, and built-in support for top languages.

Extend, enhance, and manage your applications with pre-integrated services like New Relic, MongoDB, SendGrid, Searchify, Fastly, Papertrail, ClearDB MySQL, Treasure Data, and more.

“There’s an app for that”

Only a few years ago a catchy marketing campaign introduced the world to a new relationship with the mobile phone. Now, apps have become a way of life for most of us. Whether mobile or web, apps and their underlying APIs are how we manage our lives, make purchases, socialize, stay informed, and interact with customers.

Why enabling developers matters

Great apps come from developers using tools and languages they love. That’s why a great developer experience has always been at the very heart of what we do. We embrace the languages of the modern app economy: Node.js, Ruby, Java, Python, Scala, PHP and more.

Heroku makes the processes of deploying, configuring, scaling, tuning, and managing apps as simple and straightforward as possible, so that developers can focus on what’s most important: building great apps that delight and engage customers.

Deploying and maintaining apps should be frictionless, and these capabilities should be a part of a company’s DNA.