Enterprise tech is built on the back of software developers, and Heroku is Salesforce Inc.’s testament to developer empowerment. Its integration into the larger Salesforce platform seeks to bridge operational gaps while enhancing app deployments and developer productivity.
Heroku’s Bob Wise discusses the platform’s value for developers.
“If you have some code that you’ve written in any language and you want to run that code in production, there is a lot of work to be done,” said Bob Wise (pictured), chief executive officer of Heroku, a Salesforce company. “What you get in a lot of those cases is a bag of Lego bricks. And what you have to do before you can even deploy your application is build a whole model. What Heroku does is assemble all of those things into a single piece. We can connect to your GitHub repo, and then you can take your code and just push it to production. We take care of all the hard stuff.”
Wise spoke with theCUBE Research’s Rob Strechay at Dreamforce, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed how Heroku helps companies avoid the pitfalls of broken deployments and operational instability by offering a suite of tools for testing and app deployments.
Heroku’s approach to streamlining app deployments
Heroku connects directly to a developer’s GitHub repository, automating tasks such as scaling, clustering and load balancing. This hands-off approach allows developers to focus on writing code rather than worrying about infrastructure management, according to Wise.
“Having a PaaS platform like Heroku that is very oriented towards what we call pro-code, the professional developer people who write code every day, to extend and add all the superpowers to Salesforce, is really important,” he said.
Heroku supports a wide range of programming languages — from Ruby and Go to Java and .NET — ensuring that developers can work with their preferred languages and frameworks. This flexibility and open-source foundation further enhance its utility as a platform that meets developers where they are, Wise added.
“Heroku was the original cloud native — it was cloud native before cloud native even became a thing,” he said. “There’s been a lot of standardization around Kubernetes as the underlying distributed operating system.”
Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE Research’s coverage of Dreamforce 2024: