Platform Updates
- News
- Last Updated: September 04, 2025
- Lauren Groccia
The AI revolution presents a critical challenge: moving from experimentation to production. This year, Heroku has evolved beyond a traditional PaaS to become an AI PaaS, a fully managed platform designed to solve this problem and accelerate the delivery of AI-powered apps. With new capabilities like AppLink, Managed Inference and Agents, and MCP on Heroku, Heroku now provides a fully managed platform designed for the AI era.
This evolution accelerates the delivery of AI-powered apps and intelligent agents, bringing a new level of speed and simplicity to your development process. Dreamforce 2025 is your chance to see firsthand how the Heroku AI PaaS is delivering business value faster and with less complexity.
- 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…
- Engineering
- Last Updated: May 09, 2024
- David Murray
One of our most important goals at Heroku is to be boring . Don’t get us wrong, we certainly hope that you’re excited about the Heroku developer experience — as heavy users of Heroku ourselves, we certainly are! But, even more so, we hope that you don’t have to spend all that much time thinking about Heroku. We want you to be able to spend your time thinking about the awesome, mission-critical things you’re building with Heroku, rather than worrying about the security, reliability, or performance of the underlying infrastructure they run on.
Keeping Heroku “boring” enough to…
- News
- Last Updated: April 24, 2024
- Deb Robbins
2024 is going to be an exciting year at Heroku. Before we jump into 2024, let’s take a look back at 2023 and show you how we’re empowering developers to deliver amazing apps. First of all, we want to take a moment to thank you, our customers, partners, employees, and extended communities. Your passion for Heroku and the developer community makes our work possible.
Our teams continued to grow to meet the demands of our many existing and new customers in 2023. Customers who do things like make safer cars, bring us…
- News
- Last Updated: April 03, 2024
- Tim Lawrence
We re-enabled payments to Heroku in India! At the start of August, we resumed accepting credit and debit cards issued by Indian financial institutions.
From the engagement on our public roadmap , we know that there are many developers in India eager to get back on the platform. We want to address the work done to re-enable this functionality, and why Heroku stopped accepting payments from India in the first place.
We started by enabling 3D Secure (3DS) on our platform. 3D Secure is a protocol that prompts a user to use a dynamic authentication methods such…
- News
- Last Updated: July 12, 2024
- Andre Soto
2022 was a transformational year for Heroku. In this post, we share how we’ve been enriching the Heroku developer experience in 2022, especially since committing to Heroku’s Next Chapter . We are dedicated to supporting our customers of all sizes who continue to invest and build their projects, careers, and businesses on Heroku.
As part of our commitment to increase transparency, the Heroku roadmap went live on GitHub in August 2022. The public roadmap has grown with the participation of many of our customers. Thank you for engaging with us about the future of Heroku. We…
- News
- Last Updated: October 05, 2021
- Ethan Limchayseng
Since April 2021, the Heroku Runtime team has been working to deploy upgrades to the infrastructure powering Common Runtime apps, and we’re excited to formally announce the performance improvements that customers are already seeing.
When this Changelog post was published in May introducing the changes, almost all Common Runtime apps had been migrated from what we internally called the “classic“ infrastructure to the new “sharded” architecture. In addition to performance enhancements, this migration is expected to result in lower latency across the platform.
Around 99.9% of customers didn’t have to make any changes to their Heroku apps to benefit from these upgrades,…
- Engineering
- Last Updated: June 03, 2024
- Richard Schneeman
When API requests are made one-after-the-other they’ll quickly hit rate limits and when that happens:
If you provide an API client that doesn’t include rate limiting, you don’t really have an API client. You’ve got an exception generator with a remote timer.
— Richard Schneeman Stay Inside (@schneems) June 12, 2019
That tweet spawned a discussion that generated a quest to add rate throttling logic to the platform-api gem that Heroku maintains for talking to its API in Ruby.
If the term “rate throttling” is new to you, read Rate limiting, rate throttling, and how they work together…
- Life
- Last Updated: April 30, 2024
- Jennifer HooperSally VedrosRaul MurcianoCharlie GleasonKimberly Lowe-WilliamsDavid RoutenCaleb Hearth, Christie Fidura
It is never easy to know how to react, communicate, or at times, even feel, during something as heartbreaking and real as the struggles that our fellow humans face through no fault of their own. As Herokai, we stand in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement and want to share some of our thoughts on the struggle, as well as some actions and resources that we find helpful.
We will be keeping this post updated and would love to include your voice. Please send us any thoughts that you’d like to share at: feedback@heroku.com .
“Many, if not all, of us…
- News
- Last Updated: May 06, 2020
- Scott Truitt
Security is always top of mind for Heroku customers; COVID-19 has further increased the urgency for enterprises and developers to deliver more mission-critical applications with sensitive and regulated data.
Given the needs of our customers, including those in regulated industries like Health & Life Sciences and Financial Services, we are thrilled to announce that Heroku Private Spaces and Shield customers can now deploy a new Postgres, Redis, or Apache Kafka service with a key created and managed in their private AWS KMS account. With BYOK, enterprises gain full data custody and data access control without taking on the…
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