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AppLink Fundamentals III: Building with AppLink – Development Flow and Language Choices

This blog series has taken you on a journey through the world of AppLink, from its foundational concepts and core components in Heroku AppLink: Extend Salesforce with Any Programming Language , to a deep dive into its key integration patterns in AppLink Fundamentals I: AppLink Integration Patterns – Connecting Salesforce to Heroku Applications , and then we explored advanced integrations with Data Cloud, automation, and AI in AppLink Fundamentals II: Advanced AppLink Integrations – Automation & AI . Now, in this final installment, we turn our attention to the practical aspects of building with AppLink, focusing on the development workflow,…

AppLink Fundamentals II: Advanced AppLink Integrations – Automation & AI

In our previous posts, we introduced Heroku AppLink and explored its foundational integration patterns for connecting Heroku applications with Salesforce. Now, we’ll delve into how AppLink truly expands Salesforce capabilities, focusing on advanced integrations with Data Cloud, Flow, Apex, and Agentforce. This blog will highlight how AppLink empowers you to infuse your Salesforce orgs with powerful external logic, real-time data processing, and intelligent automation.

AppLink Fundamentals I: AppLink Integration Patterns – Connecting Salesforce to Heroku Applications

In our previous post , we introduced AppLink as a powerful new way to extend Salesforce with any programming language at any scale, detailing its core components and overarching benefits. Now, we’ll dive deeper into the practical application of AppLink by exploring its primary integration patterns. Understanding these patterns is key to leveraging AppLink effectively, as they dictate how your Heroku applications interact with and enhance your Salesforce orgs.

Heroku AppLink: Extend Salesforce with Any Programming Language

The Salesforce platform offers a powerful array of tools for customization and building customer-centric experiences, from no-code automation with Flow, Prompt Builder, and Agent Builder, to robust Apex and Lightning Web Components. The art lies in choosing the right blend of these tools to achieve agility, optimize skill sets, and quickly adapt to business demands. Today, we’re introducing a new ingredient to this powerful mix: Heroku + AppLink.

Heroku AppLink Pilot: The Shortest Path to Bring Your Code to Agentforce

Developers love Heroku for its elegance and simplicity to easily build and deploy any type of app or service in the languages they love. This flexibility enables developers to build robust custom applications or specialized capabilities like agent actions, complex pricing calculations, or real-time transformations and processing. These are often capabilities where Salesforce Admins and Developers on Heroku come together to design and implement robust workflows and agents to support business processes.

The process of bringing their custom apps on Heroku to their Salesforce implementations has historically been a complex and time-consuming process. To address this, we’ve introduced Heroku AppLink ,…

How to Create an AI Agent With Heroku and Agentforce

Heroku is a powerful general-purpose PaaS offering, but when combined with the broader Salesforce portfolio, it excels in unlocking and unifying customer data, regardless of its age, location, size, or structure. Salesforce customers turn to Heroku when they need to leverage high data volumes from sources such as consumer web or mobile apps or when they need scalable compute resources to access and analyze complex data in real time. In this blog, we’ll explore how to create an AI agent with Agentforce , taking advantage of the Heroku platform to transform data from diverse sources to provide comprehensive, real-time information…

Mastering API Gateway Integration: Salesforce, Heroku, and MuleSoft Anypoint Flex Gateway

In today’s fast-paced digital world, companies are looking for ways to expose their APIs and microservices to the internet while enhancing their overall API security. MuleSoft Anypoint Flex Gateway is a powerful solution that solves this problem.
Let’s walk through deploying the Anypoint Flex Gateway on Heroku in a few straightforward steps. You’ll learn how to connect your private APIs and microservices on the Heroku platform through the Anypoint Flex Gateway which provide comprehensive API management capabilities without the hassle of managing infrastructure. Get ready to unlock the potential of this potent pairing and, in the future, integrate it with Salesforce.

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Introducing the Heroku Postgres Connector for Salesforce Data Cloud

Heroku Postgres is one of the world's largest managed data stores. Our customers rely on Heroku Postgres to store valuable data, which powers a range of experiences and services they build on Heroku. Salesforce Data Cloud integrates all your company's data into the Einstein 1 Platform , creating a comprehensive customer view for personalized engagements, analytics, and AI.

When businesses bring data from Heroku Postgres into Salesforce Data Cloud to create unified customer profiles, they can deliver highly personalized user experiences and give them a competitive advantage.

Today, we‘re excited to announce the launch of the…

Plans to Re-enable the GitHub Integration

[ Update: May 25, 2022 – GitHub integration is now re-enabled. You can connect to GitHub immediately or wait for the enhanced integration as described below. To re-establish your GitHub connection now, please follow these instructions .]

We know you are waiting for us to re-enable our integration with GitHub, and we’ve committed to you that we would only do so following a security review. We are happy to report that the review has now been completed.

One of the areas of focus was a review of the scope of tokens we request from GitHub and store on your behalf. Currently, when…

Heroku Streaming Data Connectors Are Now Generally Available

This summer, we announced the beta release of our new streaming data connectors between Heroku Postgres and Apache Kafka on Heroku . These connectors make Change Data Capture (CDC) possible on Heroku with minimal effort. Anyone with a Private or Shield Space , as well as a Postgres and an Apache Kafka add-on in that space, can use Streaming Data Connectors today at no additional charge.

Customers use connectors to build streaming data pipelines between Salesforce and external stores like a Snowflake data lake or an AWS Kinesis queue for integration with other data sources. They also refactor…

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