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- Last Updated: October 14, 2025
- Betty Junod
Today’s businesses face a tremendous amount of complexity in tools, data silos, and systems that teams need to navigate to deliver unique and engaging experiences to their customers. Meanwhile developers are only able to spend a fraction of their time coding due to the cognitive load of technology complexity, constant context switching, and figuring out how to adopt AI effectively into their daily work.
The Heroku AI PaaS is the Cloud Native Application Platform from Salesforce to seamlessly build and scale any custom service for greenfield app development, modernizing existing apps, and as part of a Salesforce cloud implementation.
At Dreamforce, we are excited to introduce new innovations to our AI PaaS that expand the capabilities of every Salesforce org and empower new builders. Today’s announcement includes innovations in three key areas:
- Expanding the capabilities of every Salesforce org with the flexibility of more pro-code and elastic compute with enterprise performance, scale and security enhancements.
- Enhancing and expanding the data foundation to empower our customers’ modern and AI app strategies.
- Delivering new vibes using AI to make the process of building new applications as accessible as sending a text message.
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- Last Updated: June 26, 2025
- Betty Junod
Today, we are pleased to announce the evolution of Heroku to an AI Platform as a Service (AI PaaS). GenAI has changed how we build software (vibe coding), the kind of technology we use (Cursor, LLMs), the type of software we make (agents), and redefined what it means to be a developer in this new world.
In a recent Salesforce study , 84% of developers with AI say it helps their teams complete their projects faster. AI-powered, natural language development tools make it possible for anyone to create software by typing instructions in English. This increase in new apps is only…
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- Last Updated: April 02, 2025
- Betty Junod
In a short amount of time, AI has transformed life, work, and how we think about the future. These rapid advancements have left many of us wondering how to integrate AI into our existing workflows and what it means for the future of app development. The apps we’re building today are more than lines of code; they’re becoming dynamic, intelligent, and increasingly autonomous. To navigate this new landscape, we need to bring our current skills and technology into this AI-driven future.
As part of the Salesforce portfolio, Heroku has always been a trusted platform for building apps in any language. Our…
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- Last Updated: November 12, 2024
- Betty Junod
Today, we are excited to announce Twelve-Factor is now an open source project. This is a special moment in the journey of Twelve-Factor over the years. Published over a decade ago by Heroku co-founder Adam Wiggins to codify the best practices for writing SaaS apps , the ideas espoused on the Twelve-Factor App website inspired many generations of software engineers and the principles we take for granted in modern application development.
Open sourcing the 12-Factor App is an important milestone to take the industry forward and codify best practices for the future. As the modern app architecture reflected in the…
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