Heroku
More info
- Founder
- James Lindenbaum, Adam Wiggins, Orion Henry
- Founded
- Owner
- Salesforce (since 2010)
- Type
- PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service)
- Website
- heroku.com
- Wikipedia
- en.wikipedia.org
The original "git push heroku" PaaS — defined the Twelve-Factor App. Salesforce bought in 2010, free tier killed in 2022.
The buildpacks concept (auto-detect language + build) became industry standard (CNB now under CNCF). "Dynos" = lightweight containers. Wiggins (Heroku co-founder) wrote The Twelve-Factor App, still the reference. Killing the free tier triggered mass migration to Railway, Render, Fly.io. Lives on as "enterprise PaaS" via Salesforce.