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Developers, teams, and businesses of all sizes use Heroku to deploy, manage, and scale apps.

Whether you're building a simple prototype or a business-critical product, Heroku's fully-managed platform gives you the simplest path to delivering apps quickly. Learn more about Heroku solutions and how the platform can benefit your app development.

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Heroku Explained: Icebergs, Lumberjacks, and Condos

Why build apps on a platform as a service (PaaS) versus an infrastructure as a service (IaaS)?
Think of it as the difference between choosing a move-in ready condo or building a house from scratch.

A powerful and innovative feature set

Built for developers, by developers.

  • Heroku Runtime

    Your apps run inside smart containers in a fully managed runtime environment, we handle everything critical for production — configuration, orchestration, load balancing, failovers, logging, security, and more.

  • Heroku Postgres (SQL)

    Reliable and secure PostgreSQL as a service with easy setup, encryption at rest, simple scaling, database forking, continuous protection, and more.

  • Heroku Redis

    The most popular in-memory, key-value datastore — delivered as a service. Heroku Redis provides powerful data types, great throughput, and built-in support for top languages.

  • Scale

    Heroku scales in an instant, both vertically and horizontally. You can elegantly run everything from tiny hobby projects to enterprise-grade e-commerce handling Black Friday surges.

  • Add-ons

    Extend, enhance, and manage your applications with pre-integrated services like New Relic, MongoDB, SendGrid, Searchify, Fastly, Papertrail, ClearDB MySQL, Treasure Data, and more.

  • Data Clips

    Data Clips make it easy to keep everyone in the loop with up-to-the-second data insights from your project by sharing query results via a simple and secure URL.

  • Code and data rollback

    Work fearlessly — Heroku’s build system and Postgres service let you roll back your code or your database to a previous state in an instant.

  • App metrics

    Always know what’s going on with your apps thanks to built-in monitoring of throughput, response times, memory, CPU load, and errors.

  • Continuous delivery

    Heroku Flow uses Heroku Pipelines, Review Apps and GitHub Integration to make building, iterating, staging, and shipping apps easy, visual, and efficient.

  • GitHub Integration

    Our seamless GitHub integration means every pull request spins up a disposable Review App for testing, and any repo can be set up to auto-deploy with every GitHub push to a branch of your choosing.

  • Extensibility

    Customize your stack with a Heroku innovation: Buildpacks. Build your own, or choose one from the hundreds built by the community to run Gradle, Meteor, NGINX — even Haskell.

  • Smart containers

    Your apps run in smart containers called dynos, where the system and language stacks are continually monitored, patched, and upgraded by our team.

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Heroku Enterprise

The Heroku experience developers love,
with the enterprise features large companies need.

  • Private Spaces

    Network isolated, dedicated runtime environments for enhanced privacy, power, and performance.

  • Fine-grained access controls

    Seamlessly integrated permissions sets to give managers control, and ensures users have the access they need.

  • SSO for Heroku

    Use your Identity Provider of choice, like Salesforce Identity, Okta, PingOne, Microsoft Active Directory, or PingFederate to manage developer access and authorization.

  • Team and resource oversight

    Manage your teams, resources, and performance from a single dashboard across applications in different stages of development.

  • Heroku Connect

    Seamlessly sync your Heroku data into your Salesforce systems of record, for a single point of view of your customers.

  • Enterprise-grade support

    Highly responsive SLAs, plus expert help with scaling, application architecture design, white-glove onboarding, and more.

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