DEVOPSdigest

Salesforce announced a series of updates for Heroku, a platform as a service (PaaS) offering that enables teams to build, deploy, and scale modern applications entirely in the cloud.

The latest version of Heroku enhances developer capabilities with support for .NET and integrated AI development; improves platform performance and operational ease with fully integrated infrastructure services including Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Elastic Container Registry (ECR), AWS Global Accelerator, and AWS Graviton; and standardizes to open source standards with Kubernetes, Open Container Initiative (OCI), and OpenTelemetry without adding complexity.

The Heroku platform is addressing these challenges in this release by applying additional programming languages and AI to the development process. These platform updates both enhance and expand the integrated platform infrastructure and AI services while conforming to open source standards for enhanced security, performance, and flexibility.

Enhancements include:

- Enhance developer experience with added support for .NET alongside languages already supported like Node.js, Java, Python, Go, Ruby, PHP, Scala, and Clojure.

- Accelerate AI app delivery with managed inference, including Amazon Bedrock to simplify and streamline the use of AI and foundation models for developers.

- Native DevOps infrastructure and automation, providing more ease-of-use with platform resilience and performance on a global scale. This new release integrates leading AWS services including Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR), AWS Global Accelerator, and AWS Graviton into Heroku.

- A cloud-native, open standards-based foundation to drive alignment to cloud-native strategies and conform with the Kubernetes control plane, Open Container Initiative (OCI), and Open Telemetry-based monitoring and observability extensibility.

“Heroku pioneered the PaaS category and defined what a great user experience should look like. Empowering developers and operators to focus on delivering differentiated value to their business, instead of focusing on the infrastructure plumbing,” said Gail Frederick, CTO and SVP, Heroku. “With the next generation Heroku platform, we continue this leadership, bringing forward the most robust practices to cloud native and AI applications; and managing them so our customers don’t have to. With Heroku, you build it, you deploy it, and we take care of the rest.”

Pilot access to the new Heroku platform is available now and will be generally available in early 2025.

Heroku AI is available in pilot now and will be generally available in early 2025.

.NET-supported features are available in public beta now and will be generally available in January 2025.