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- Engineering
- Last Updated: July 31, 2025
- Ken W. Alger
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,…
- Engineering
- Last Updated: July 30, 2025
- Ken W. Alger
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.
- Engineering
- Last Updated: July 29, 2025
- Ken W. Alger
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.
- Engineering
- Last Updated: July 17, 2025
- Vivek Viswanathan, Kim Harrison
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.
- News
- Last Updated: May 15, 2025
- Zilin Zhou
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 ,…
- Engineering
- Last Updated: January 10, 2025
- Andrew Fawcett
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. One of the key reasons why Salesforce customers turn to Heroku is when they require such data to be securely linked to high-scale experiences, such as consumer web or mobile apps, or when they need scalable compute resources to access and analyze more intricate and complex data in real time. In this blog, we’ll explore how to supercharge Agentforce by leveraging one of the ways in which the…
- Engineering
- Last Updated: May 02, 2024
- Mars Hall
The recent introduction of Platform Events and Change Data Capture (CDC) in Salesforce has launched us into a new age of integration capabilities. Today, it's possible to develop custom apps that respond to activity in Salesforce. Whether you're creating a memorable customer interaction or implementing an internal workflow for employees, consider an event-sourced design to improve responsiveness and durability of the app.
In this article, we'll look at an event-sourced app architecture that consumes the Salesforce Streaming API using the elegant jsforce JavaScript library in a Node app on Heroku .
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- News
- Last Updated: October 26, 2017
- Robert Zare
Today we are pleased to announce a significant update to Heroku Connect , one that is a culmination of two years of work to improve every aspect of the service. We’ve focused on three primary areas: improving write speed, geographically expanding the service, and intelligently guiding design and troubleshooting workflows. To that end, we’ve enabled bulk writes resulting in a 5x average increase in sync performance to Salesforce, deployed Connect in six global regions to be closer to customers’ databases, and built three guided management experiences that significantly increase user productivity.
Collectively, these enhancements will enable Heroku Connect…
- News
- Last Updated: November 15, 2016
- Robert Zare
Today we are announcing a significant enhancement to Heroku External Objects : write support. Salesforce users can now create, read, update, and delete records that physically reside in any Heroku Postgres database from within their Salesforce deployment.
Increasingly, developers need to build applications with the sophistication and user experience of the consumer Internet, coupled with the seamless customer experience that comes from integration with Salesforce. Heroku External Objects enable a compelling set of integrations scenarios between Heroku and Salesforce deployments, allowing Postgres to be updated based on business processes or customer records in Salesforce.
With Heroku External…
- News
- Last Updated: May 10, 2016
- Margaret Francis
Today we’re announcing that the APIs for the Heroku Connect data synchronization service are now GA. These fully supported endpoints will help our users with the tasks they most need repeatable automation for: creating consistent configuration across development, staging, and production environments; managing connections across multiple Salesforce deployments; and integrating Heroku Connect status with their existing operational systems and alerts.
When we first released Heroku Connect, users were delighted with the simple point and click UI: they could suddenly integrate Salesforce data with Heroku Postgres in one enjoyable minute! But as users’ familiarity with the service…
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