Heroku
The Cloud Application Platform For Building, Deploying, and Scaling Apps
Heroku is a fully managed cloud application platform that lets developers build, deploy, and scale web applications without managing infrastructure. It supports multiple languages, offers 150+ add-ons, and provides managed data services including Postgres and Redis. Recently, Heroku has expanded to support AI application development with managed inference, agents, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) server hosting.
Heroku runs apps inside managed containers called dynos, handling all underlying infrastructure, security, and scaling automatically so developers can deploy via Git or CLI.
Developers, teams, and businesses of all sizes building and deploying web applications
Background.
- Status
- launched
- Business model
- freemium
- Company
- Salesforce
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