| Type | subsidiary |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2007 |
| Founder(s) | James Lindenbaum, Adam Wiggins, Orion Henry |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California |
| Key people | Byron Sebastian, GM |
| Parent | Salesforce.com |
| Website | heroku.com |
Heroku is a cloud Platform as a Service (PaaS) run by the San Francisco, California-based company with the same name. Heroku led the way for a multi-language PaaS, introducing the 'polyglot platform'. Heroku initially supported the Ruby programming language, with Rack and Ruby on Rails. Heroku PaaS now supports six languages: Ruby, Java, Node.js, Scala, Clojure and Python cloud PaaS. As one of the very first cloud platforms as a service provider, Heroku has been in development since June 2007 and the company reports over 400,000 web applications running on its service.[1]
On December 8, 2010, Salesforce.com entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Heroku for a reported $212 million.[2] Heroku will continue to exist as a wholly owned subsidiary of Salesforce.com.
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Heroku was founded by a team of engineers who thought web app development was too complicated. James Lindenbaum, Adam Wiggins, and Orion Henry founded Heroku with exclusive support of Rack-compatible projects, but in July 2011 expanded to include support for Node.js and Clojure. Initially funded by Y Combinator and Redpoint Ventures, Heroku secured $3M in funding in 2008.[3]
In October 2009, industry veteran Byron Sebastian joined Heroku as CEO as the company began to build out the platform and achieve rapid growth and adoption in the market.[4]
In May 2010 Heroku secured $10M in Series B funding led by Seattle's Ignition Partners and former Microsoft CIO/CFO John Connors joined the Heroku board.[5]
On December 8, 2010 Salesforce.com entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Heroku for a reported $212 million in cash. Heroku will continue to exist as a wholly owned subsidiary of Salesforce.com.
On July 12, 2011 Heroku announced that Matz, the creator of the Ruby programming language, had joined the company as Chief Architect, Ruby.[6]
On September 15, 2011 Heroku and Facebook teamed up and introduced Heroku for Facebook,[7], as a quick and easy way to 'to get your own Facebook app up and running in the cloud.'
The Heroku development team regularly adds features to Heroku. Heroku claims to offer the most NoSQL Add-on Solutions in the market today using a single click. Pioneering NoSQL companies available include Cloudant, Membase, MongoDB and Redis, with more technologies in the pipeline.[8] In November 2010 alone, Heroku added a release management add-on, a new and improved database backup solution called 'Heroku PG Backups' that is the officially supported and recommended method of backing up your PostgreSQL database on Heroku in addition to releasing the Heroku PostgreSQL Database Add-on.
In November 2010, Heroku announced a partnership with Facebook,[9] creating the Heroku Facebook App Package [10] which enable companies—large and small—to quickly and easily create Facebook apps reliably.[11] Said Mike Vernal, Director of the Facebook Platform, "Heroku makes building and scaling Facebook applications easier than ever. Developers can focus on their app, getting it in the hands of millions of Facebook users quickly."[12]
Heroku was named to the "Dow Jones FASTech 50 Start-ups to Watch" list, recognized as a Gartner ‘Cool Vendor in Application Platforms as a Service’ in April 2010, named to the Always OnDemand Top 100 Private Companies in 2010, and recognized as a ‘Best Products of 2009’ and one of the 'Top 10 Cloud Computing Services for 2010' by ReadWriteWeb. In April 2011, Heroku was named #2 on its annual list of 'Best Places to Work' in the Bay Area.
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