Heroku
A cloud-native platform for developers to build, run, and operate scalable applications.
Executive Summary
Heroku, a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) from Salesforce, provides a powerful cloud-native environment for developers to build, run, and operate applications with exceptional ease and scalability. It abstracts away infrastructure management, allowing teams to focus entirely on coding and innovation. Supporting a wide array of programming languages and frameworks, Heroku simplifies the entire application lifecycle from development to deployment and scaling. The platform is designed for agility, enabling rapid iteration and continuous delivery through its Git-based deployment workflow and robust ecosystem of add-ons for databases, caching, monitoring, and more. Developers can provision resources, manage configurations, and monitor application health through an intuitive dashboard or command-line interface. Heroku's consumption-based pricing model ensures that companies only pay for the resources they use, making it a flexible solution for projects of all sizes.
Use Cases
- Rapidly deploy and scale web applications and APIs without managing underlying infrastructure.
- Host and manage microservices architectures, enabling independent deployment and scaling of components.
- Develop and test new application prototypes quickly, leveraging a streamlined deployment pipeline.
- Run background jobs, scheduled tasks, and data processing workloads in a reliable cloud environment.
- Build and operate customer-facing applications that require high availability and dynamic scaling.
Features
Visibility
- Heroku Dashboard: Centralized web interface for managing applications, resources, and add-ons.
- Real-time Metrics: Monitor application performance, resource utilization, and health in real-time.
Technical Specifications
- Architecture
- Cloud-native Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) utilizing Linux containers (dynos) for application execution, supporting various programming languages and frameworks.
- Deployment
- SaaS
- API Available
- Yes
Infrastructure
- AWS
Integrations
- Salesforce
Security & Compliance
Certifications: SOC 2, ISO 27001
Encryption: Data at rest and in transit encryption
Pricing
- Model
- Consumption-based, based on dyno units and resource usage
- Starting Price
- Free tier available, paid plans vary by consumption
- Target Customer
- SMB,Mid-Market,Enterprise
- Free Trial
- Yes, Perpetual (for free tier) (no credit card required)
About salesforce
Salesforce, Inc. is an American technology company best known for developing cloud-based software for customer relationship management (CRM) and related business applications delivered through a software-as-a-service (SaaS) subscription model. Its major product is the AI-powered Customer 360 platform, which includes customer data cloud services, marketing, automation, integration, commerce, and artificial intelligence.