Over the past year, Heroku has been on a journey of reflection as we rebase the platform to address the changing needs of app teams toward the future without disrupting your business. In the Heroku way, we want to be thoughtful about your experience as we evolve.

When we started Heroku, it was the early days of cloud computing, before Docker and Kubernetes were household names in IT. We launched Heroku (and the platform-as-a-service category) to help teams get to the cloud easily with an elegant user experience in front of a powerful platform that automated a lot of the manual work that slowed teams down. To do that then, we had to build a lot of the tooling ourselves, like orchestration...

We’re excited to announce that official support for .NET on Heroku is entering public beta starting today. Developers can now build and deploy applications in C#, F#, and Visual Basic, using frameworks like ASP.NET Core and Blazor, all with the simplicity and flexibility of the Heroku platform.

.NET has long been one of the most requested frameworks to join Heroku’s lineup, and for good reason. Known for its power and versatility .NET enables developers to build everything from high-performance APIs to complex, full-stack web applications and scalable microservices. Now, developers can combine .NET’s capabilities with Heroku’s streamlined platform for a first-class developer experience.

Cloud platforms have come a long way since Heroku first set out to empower developers. Today’s cloud native development demands even greater flexibility, openness, and scalability. A fun fact about Heroku is that we use trees to denote the generation of the platform technology stack (aka version). In the tradition of Aspen, Bamboo, and Cedar, we are introducing Fir, the latest Heroku technology stack built on open source standards and cloud native technologies.

When we launched Cedar, we introduced a new way of thinking about application development and popularized principles like stateless applications, automated builds, and other twelve-factor principles; encouraging developers to build...

Over the last couple of years, we’ve repeatedly heard the question “who will build the Heroku of AI?”. The answer to that question is that Heroku will, of course.

We are excited to bring AI to the Heroku platform with the pilot of Managed Inference and Agents, delivered with the graceful developer and operational experience and composability that are the heart of Heroku.

Heroku’s Managed Inference and Agents provide access to leading AI models from the world's top AI providers. These solutions optimize the developer and operator experience to easily extend applications on Heroku with AI. Heroku customers can benefit from this high performance and high trust AI service to focus on...