Heroku, part of Salesforce, is a fully managed cloud platform (PaaS) designed to help developers and businesses deploy, manage, and scale modern applications — now with integrated AI capabilities. It eliminates operational overhead like maintenance, patching, and scaling, allowing teams to focus on building data-driven and AI-powered products.
With Heroku AI, users can quickly create and deploy AI models and agents using Managed Inference and Agents, extend them through the Model Context Protocol (MCP), and leverage pgvector for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and vector similarity search directly in Heroku Postgres.
Heroku supports multiple programming languages (Node.js, Python, Ruby, Java, PHP, Go, Scala, Clojure, .NET) and provides a vast ecosystem with over 150 add-ons and 380+ open-source buildpacks. The platform includes tools for continuous delivery, GitHub integration, metrics, rollback, security compliance (PCI, HIPAA, SOC, ISO), and team collaboration.
In essence, Heroku serves as a unified AI and app development platform where developers of any size — from startups to enterprises — can build, deploy, and scale applications efficiently while maintaining simplicity and flexibility.
