Heroku is a cloud application platform – a new way of building and deploying web apps. Their service lets app developers spend their time on their application code, not managing servers, deployment, ongoing operations, or scaling. Heroku was founded in 2007 by Orion Henry, James Lindenbaum, and Adam Wiggins. It was acquired by Salesforce in 2011, and Heroku is now part of the Salesforce App Cloud.

An app starts impacting the world when customers start interacting with it. Getting apps out in the wild, out onto the Internet quickly, and iterating, fast, is what can make or break companies. Heroku focuses relentlessly on apps and the developer experience around apps. Heroku lets companies of all sizes embrace the value of apps, not the distraction of hardware, nor the distraction of servers - virtual or otherwise.