Heroku Unveils Next-Gen AI Development Platform

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!