Heroku

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Heroku is a cloud platform as a service (PaaS) supporting

several programming languages. Heroku was acquired by
Salesforce.com in 2010.[1] Heroku, one of the rst cloud
platforms, has been in development since June 2007,
when it supported only the Ruby programming language,
but has since added support for Java, Node.js, Scala,
Clojure, Python and PHP and (undocumented) Perl. The
base operating system is Debian or, in the newest stack,
the Debian-based Ubuntu.[2]

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James Lindenbaum, Adam Wiggins, and Orion Henry

founded Heroku supporting Rack-compatible projects.[3]
In October 2009 Byron Sebastian joined Heroku as
CEO.[4] On December 8, 2010 Salesforce.com acquired
Heroku as a wholly owned subsidiary of Salesforce.com.
On July 12, 2011 Yukihiro Matz Matsumoto, the chief
designer of the Ruby programming language, joined
the company as Chief Architect, Ruby.[5] That month,
Heroku included support for Node.js and Clojure. On
September 15, 2011 Heroku and Facebook introduced
Heroku for Facebook.[6] Heroku now supports Cloudant,
Couchbase Server, MongoDB and Redis,[7] besides the
standard PostgreSQL,[8] both as part of the platform and
as a standalone service.[9] Applications that are run from
the Heroku server use the Heroku DNS Server to direct to the application domain (typically applicationname.herokuapp.com). Each of the application containers or dynos are spread across a dyno grid which consists of several servers. Herokus Git server handles application repository pushes from permitted users.[10]

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3 References
[1] Salesforce signs denitive agreement to acquire Heroku
(news release), Heroku
[2] Stacks. Heroku Dev Center. Retrieved May 15, 2012.
[3] Ruby on Rails Startup Heroku Gets $3 Million, Tech
Crunch, 2008-05-08
[4] SourceLabs Byron Sebastian Joins Heroku as CEO, Venture Beat, 2009-10-14
[5] Matz joins Heroku (weblog), Heroku, 2011-07-12
[6] Facebook and Heroku: an even easier way to get started,
Developers (weblog), Facebook
[7] NoSQL, Heroku, and You (weblog), Heroku, 2010-07-20

The June 2012 North American derecho caused many applications hosted by Heroku to go oine. The service
outage lasted less than 24 hours.[11]

[8] Database, Dev Centre, Heroku, retrieved 2012-05-03,

Heroku oers you the choice of running on a shared or
dedicated database package. The shared plan is suitable
for development and staging applications. It runs Postgres
8.3. The dedicated plans are suitable for production scale
applications. In addition, the dedicated databases oer a
number of advantages, including direct access (via psql or
any native postgres library), stored procedures, and Postgres 9 support.

Competitors
AppFog
AppScale

[9] SQL Database-as-a-Service: the largest and most reliable

Postgres service in the world, Heroku, retrieved 2012-0503, A powerful, reliable, and durable open-source SQLcompliant database, PostgreSQL is the datastore of choice
for serious applications. Now it is available in seconds
with a single click. Never worry about servers. Never
worry about cong les. Never worry about patches. Simply focus on your data.

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[10] Scalability: How does Heroku work?

[11] Ludwig, Sear (June 29, 2012). Amazon cloud outage
takes down Netix, Instagram, Pinterest, & more. VentureBeat. Retrieved 8 July 2012.

External links
Heroku (ocial site).
Deploying Azure Hosted Services Should Be as Easy
as Deploying a Heroku Application, Sys-con.
Deploy Wordpress Application on IBM BlueMix,
IBM DeveloperWorks.
Herokus Ruby Cloud Platform at Building 43, 201004-20.
Venture Wire FASTech Conference Spotlights
Most Promising Start-Ups, Wall Street Journal (weblog), 2010-10-12.
Can Heroku Become the Ocial Cloud of Facebook
Apps?, GigaOm.
Adam Wiggins on Herokus Pivot, Building a Washing Machine for Web Developers, and Joining Salesforce.com, xconomy, 2011-05-24.
Facebook Builds Bridge To Heroku Cloud, InformationWeek.
Ruby creator sets sights on mobile, Infoworld (interview).
Heroku on IT Central Station.
Top 10 Heroku FAQs (by Sylpheo), 2014-12-12.

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