Heroku Blog
- Engineering
- Last Updated: July 17, 2025
- Vivek Viswanathan, Kim Harrison
The Salesforce platform offers a powerful array of tools for customization and building customer-centric experiences, from no-code automation with Flow, Prompt Builder, and Agent Builder, to robust Apex and Lightning Web Components. The art lies in choosing the right blend of these tools to achieve agility, optimize skill sets, and quickly adapt to business demands. Today, we’re introducing a new ingredient to this powerful mix: Heroku + AppLink.
- Engineering
- Last Updated: July 09, 2025
- Ken W. Alger
Modern cloud-native architectures are composed of multiple microservices running across dynamic environments. Effectively diagnosing performance issues, bottlenecks, or failures requires comprehensive observability. For this, many organizations look to OpenTelemetry, which provides a standardized approach to capturing and analyzing telemetry data. Fir is Heroku’s next generation cloud platform , designed to offer more modern cloud-native capabilities with flexibility and scalability. It’s built on proven, open-source technologies. Traditional Heroku relied on proprietary technologies, which was appropriate at the time because high-quality open-source alternatives didn’t exist. But now, technologies like Kubernetes and OpenTelemetry are considered best-in-class solutions that are widely deployed and supported…
- News
- Last Updated: July 02, 2025
- Jonathan Brown
We’re thrilled to announce the general availability of Valkey v8.1 in Redis OSS compatible Heroku Key-Value Store . This isn’t just an incremental update; it’s a significant leap forward, bringing enhanced performance and greater efficiency. To add to this excitement, we’re bringing powerful new module capabilities to v8.1, with Valkey Bloom and ValkeyJSON.
For years, Heroku customers have relied on our managed in-memory data store services for caching, session management, real-time leaderboards, queueing, and so much more. Valkey is a drop-in, open-source fork of Redis OSS at v7.2, maintained by the Linux Foundation, and is backwards compatible with Redis OSS protocols…
- News
- Last Updated: June 26, 2025
- Betty Junod
Today, we are pleased to announce the evolution of Heroku to an AI Platform as a Service (AI PaaS). GenAI has changed how we build software (vibe coding), the kind of technology we use (Cursor, LLMs), the type of software we make (agents), and redefined what it means to be a developer in this new world.
In a recent Salesforce study , 84% of developers with AI say it helps their teams complete their projects faster. AI-powered, natural language development tools make it possible for anyone to create software by typing instructions in English. This increase in new apps is only…
- Ecosystem
- Last Updated: June 26, 2025
- Nicole Klusman
Partners are a critical part of the community in driving customer success in technology adoption. Today, we’re thrilled to announce new solution expertise and program benefits for Salesforce Consulting Partners to expand their practice with Heroku AI PaaS. Building on our announcement from earlier this year, today’s announcement is designed to deepen technical expertise and help partners expand the service offerings they can provide their customers with the Salesforce portfolio.
Salesforce is the world’s #1 AI CRM and provider of the Agentforce digital labor platform bringing together the C360 apps and data with Heroku. Every customer’s business is unique and that…
- News
- Last Updated: June 24, 2025
- Anush DSouza, Gautam Rangarajan
Today, we’re thrilled to announce a new way in which agents can access the Heroku platform using the Heroku Remote MCP Server, now available at https://mcp.heroku.com/mcp.
This new remote server is an expansion of our earlier stdio-based MCP server and comes with secure OAuth authentication. It’s designed to provide a secure, scalable, and incredibly simple way for agents to interact with the Heroku platform and use tools to perform actions such as creating a Heroku app from your favorite agents such as Claude , Agentforce , or Cursor . With Agentforce 3.0 announcing native support for MCP, you can bring Heroku…
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