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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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Heroku works with a wide variety of customers and partners. Learn more about how we support digital and software development agenciespartners, and enterprise companies.

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Design is part of Heroku’s DNA, it’s at the heart of everything we do. We approach our work using the guiding principles of utility, simplicity, elegance, and quality. Every single person at Heroku sweats the details and contributes to the Heroku experience.

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Former Head of Design/UX

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.

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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.

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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.

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Heroku handles more than 65 billion requests every day

That’s more than 700,000 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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Every day presents a new opportunity for growth and collaboration across the company.

 

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Director, Marketing Programs & Communications

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:

Become a Heroku Ecosystem Partner

Heroku Ecosystem Partners, formerly known as Add-on Providers, are service vendors that provide fully managed technical solutions for Heroku developers. As an Ecosystem Partner, you can share your cloud-based services, new innovations, and best practices with a highly-targeted audience. There are 200+ Heroku Add-ons in the Elements Marketplace.

Contribute a Heroku Button or Buildpack

Heroku developers share their open-source solutions with the community. Heroku Buttons allow others to easily deploy your code in one click. Heroku Buildpacks extend Heroku’s build system to support your custom builds or preferred languages. There are 7,200+ Heroku Buttons and 5,400+ Heroku Buildpacks in the Elements Marketplace.

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“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.”

John Gray

SVP Business Development, New Relic

Our customers

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 65 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.

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“Heroku gives us a scalable, long-term solution for running our service, so we don’t have to jump from provider to provider as our business grows.”

Justin Kestler

Co-Founder, LitCharts

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.


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