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Heroku Eventing: A Router for All Your Events

Managing event-driven architecture can be challenging. For many organizations, this includes a diverse set of eventing services and buses, often across multiple organizations. Developers must manage authentication and pub/sub services across teams and applications. We’re thrilled to introduce Heroku Eventing, a powerful tool designed to help teams manage events more efficiently and securely. This new feature simplifies the process of integrating and monitoring events from various sources, ensuring a seamless and secure experience. Simplifying Monitoring and Observability One of the most common challenges our customers face is the need for comprehensive monitoring and observability. Traditionally, this involves manually gathering data…

Heroku Extension for Visual Studio Code (VS Code) Now Generally Available

The Heroku Extension for Visual Studio Code (VS Code) is now generally available for all customers—VS Code is an all-in-one tool that brings Heroku’s cloud management directly to your favorite IDE. In today’s fast-paced, AI-assisted development environment, switching between code editors and deployment tools can slow innovation and product delivery. ‌This extension lets you focus on building great applications by streamlining cloud resource monitoring, one-click deployments, and add-on management, all within VS Code. Why Visual Studio Code? Visual Studio Code (VS Code) is one of the most popular code editors, loved by developers for its extensibility, lightweight design, and robust…

Heroku at TDX 2025: Empowering Developers for the Future

TDX25 comes to San Francisco this March 5-6. Heroku, a Salesforce company, has a packed schedule with a variety of sessions and activities designed to enhance your knowledge of our platform and integrations with Agentforce and Salesforce technologies. Whether you’re new to Heroku or a seasoned pro, there’s something for everyone at this year’s event. Breakout & Theater Sessions You Won’t Want to Miss TDX is not just a conference—it’s an opportunity to learn from experts, connect with the community, and discover tools and resources that make building on the Salesforce Platform even easier. Here’s a sneak peek at some…

The Next Generation of the Heroku Platform

Over the past year, Heroku has been on a journey of reflection as we rebase the platform to address the changing needs of app teams toward the future without disrupting your business. In the Heroku way, we want to be thoughtful about your experience as we evolve. When we started Heroku, it was the early days of cloud computing, before Docker and Kubernetes were household names in IT. We launched Heroku (and the platform-as-a-service category) to help teams get to the cloud easily with an elegant user experience in front of a powerful platform that automated a lot of the…

.NET Support on Heroku

We’re excited to announce that official support for .NET on Heroku is entering public beta starting today. Developers can now build and deploy applications in C#, F#, and Visual Basic, using frameworks like ASP.NET Core and Blazor, all with the simplicity and flexibility of the Heroku platform. .NET has long been one of the most requested frameworks to join Heroku’s lineup, and for good reason. Known for its power and versatility .NET enables developers to build everything from high-performance APIs to complex, full-stack web applications and scalable microservices. Now, developers can combine .NET’s capabilities with Heroku’s streamlined platform for a…

Planting New Platform Roots in Cloud Native with Fir

Cloud platforms have come a long way since Heroku first set out to empower developers. Today’s cloud native development demands even greater flexibility, openness, and scalability. A fun fact about Heroku is that we use trees to denote the generation of the platform technology stack (aka version). In the tradition of Aspen, Bamboo, and Cedar, we are introducing Fir, the latest Heroku technology stack built on open source standards and cloud native technologies. When we launched Cedar, we introduced a new way of thinking about application development and popularized principles like stateless applications, automated builds, and other twelve-factor principles; encouraging…

Heroku AI | Managed Inference and Agents

Over the last couple of years, we’ve repeatedly heard the question “who will build the Heroku of AI?”. The answer to that question is that Heroku will, of course. We are excited to bring AI to the Heroku platform with the pilot of Managed Inference and Agents, delivered with the graceful developer and operational experience and composability that are the heart of Heroku. Heroku’s Managed Inference and Agents provide access to leading AI models from the world's top AI providers. These solutions optimize the developer and operator experience to easily extend applications on Heroku with AI. Heroku customers can benefit…

Router 2.0 and HTTP/2 Now Generally Available

Back in September 2023, we announced our Public Beta for our new Common Runtime router: Router 2.0. Now generally available, Router 2.0 will replace the legacy Common Runtime router in the coming months, and bring new networking capabilities and performance to our customers. The beta launch of Router 2.0 also enabled us to deliver HTTP/2 to our customers. And now, because Router 2.0 has become generally available, HTTP/2 is also generally available for all common runtime customers and even Private Spaces customers too. We’re excited to have Router 2.0 be the foundation for Heroku to deliver new cutting edge networking…

Heroku Open Sources the Twelve-Factor App Definition

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 that website inspired many generations of software engineers. Open sourcing 12-Factor is an important milestone to take the industry forward and codify best practices for the future. As the modern app architecture reflected in the 12-Factors became mainstream, new technologies and ideas emerged, and we needed to bring more voices and…

Simplify Your Cloud Security: Heroku ACM Now Supports Wildcard Domains

We are thrilled to announce that Heroku Automated Certificate Management (ACM) now supports wildcard domains for the Common Runtime! Heroku ACM’s support for wildcard domains streamlines your cloud management by allowing Heroku’s Certificate management to cover all your desired subdomains with only one command, reducing networking setup overhead and providing more flexibility while enhancing the overall security of your applications. This highly-requested feature request is here, and in this blog post, we'll dive into what wildcard domains are, why you should use them, and the new possibilities this support brings to Heroku ACM. What’s a Wildcard Domain and Why Should…

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