What is Heroku?
Heroku provides a platform as a service (PAAS) for building, deploying, and running cloud apps using Ruby. The architecture of our platform includes tools for deployment and management, a runtime for scalability, fault tolerance, and an add-ons system for extending the capabilities of our platform. Get started for free and acquire resources as needed.
Who is using Heroku?
Thousands of companies worldwide use Heroku to deploy their applications into the cloud. From small business to Fortune 500 companies, developers choose Heroku for its ease of use, reliability and performance.
See our success stories for a list of just some of the companies using Heroku.
Why should I choose Heroku?
Heroku lets your developers focus on doing what they do best: developing. From the first stages of building your application, Heroku helps you with our extensive collection of add-ons. Once you are ready to deploy your application you can iterate quickly. Heroku manages the entire lifecycle of your deployed application, allowing your team to focus on developing your application.
Heroku handled peak periods of over 10,000 requests per minute. Best of all, it has been easy to scale up AND down based on our traffic. – John Fan, Co-Founder and Chief, Cardinal
Since Heroku, I’m no longer irritated with sysadmin chores. I can actually go outside and not have to worry about my servers. – Jim Gilliam, Founder, act.ly
When it came down to production, we investigated several alternatives and felt that Heroku was the best balance between features, ease of use and value. – Ben Sharpe, Senior Web Services Architect, Ubermind
How can my company get started?
Your development team can get started immediately; if you have any further questions contact us.