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Setting up, operating and maintaining your own platform is not where the race is won. Avoid the risk and complexity, and dedicate your energy to what really matters: building great apps.

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Work with the language you already love

Learn how UrbanBound easily handles traffic spikes and scales their business on Heroku.

  • We needed a platform that would allow for rapid development in our language of choice, simplified operations, and provided infinite scalability. Heroku delivered in spades.

    Gopal Patel CTO, GetFeedback

  • With Heroku driving the back-end, our dashboard can pivot numbers across 14 million distributors and aggregate in mere seconds.

    Seth Winters Web Development Manager at Forever Living

  • With the help of Heroku, we’re able to provide our food retailers with a valuable technology platform that helps them stay competitive, improve and grow their existing business, delight existing customers, and attract new ones.

    Kevin McKenzie Global Chief Digital Officer, Westfield

  • We’ve been developing on Heroku for three years without the need for dedicated DevOps, which to me is the real testament to the power of the Heroku platform.

    Jake Rosenberg CTO, LendUp
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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.

Learn about the Heroku Platform

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.

Learn about Enterprise
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