In a short amount of time, AI has transformed life, work, and how we think about the future. These rapid advancements have left many of us wondering how to integrate AI into our existing workflows and what it means for the future of app development. The apps we're building today are more than lines of code; they're becoming dynamic, intelligent, and increasingly autonomous. To navigate this new landscape, we need to bring our current skills and technology into this AI-driven future.
As part of the Salesforce portfolio, Heroku has always been a trusted platform for building apps in any language. Our mission remains focused on helping you deliver value faster, greater reliability, and improved efficiently—all while simplifying the complexities of an ever-changing ecosystem. Our latest innovations empower developers to build custom AI apps faster, enhance existing apps with AI capabilities, and create specialized actions and experiences for AI agents in any language.
To date over 65 million apps in Ruby, .NET, Java, Python, Go, and more have launched to serve billions of requests a day that provide healthcare, sell clothing, detect bank fraud, and order car parts. The next generation of Heroku brings AI capabilities into the platform and with developer tools like Cursor, all in service of helping organizations accelerate their agentic initiatives to improve customer experience and focus on creating unique value.
What’s New: Streamlining AI and Cloud-Native Development
Heroku AppLink
Dramatically streamlines the ability to add custom actions and logic written in any language to Agentforce agents through Salesforce Flows, Apex, and Data Cloud. Agentforce is the agentic layer of the Salesforce Platform for deploying autonomous AI agents across any business function. This capability brings the ecosystem of programming languages and custom code to augment and enhance Salesforce implementations. AppLink is available today in pilot.
Heroku Eventing
Delivers a robust solution to simplify the development of event-based app architectures with a centralized hub for managing, subscribing to, and publishing events, streamlining the development process. Eventing can be used to subscribe and publish to any system including the Salesforce platform. Eventing is available in pilot.
Heroku Fir Generation
This latest version of the Heroku Platform delivers an integrated and automated experience that is resilient, secure, and performant at global scale. Built on open, cloud-native standards like Kubernetes, Open Container Initiative (OCI), and Open Telemetry; the platform now leverages AWS services including Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR), AWS Global Accelerator, and AWS Graviton. Generally available later this month.
VS Code Extension
Delivers an all-in-one experience with the essential developer tools to create and manage apps within the IDE. Developers are able to be more productive in building apps and can eliminate the context switching between multiple tools. VS Code Extension is available here.
.NET Support
Enhances and expands the developer experience to include C#, Visual Basic, and F# apps using the .NET and ASP.NET Core frameworks. .NET is available here.
Heroku-Jupyter
Delivers an open-source, production-ready solution to easily spin up cloud-based Jupyter environments in minutes without the challenges of storage or complex configurations. Available open source here.
Managed Inference and Agents
Delivers a streamlined developer and operator experience in building and managing custom AI apps in any language alongside your data and AI models in one trusted environment. Heroku provides safe execution of AI generated code during agentic workflows, plus secure access to tools and resources like databases and add-ons. MIA is available in pilot.
Get Ready to Dig in
We started Heroku before Docker, Kubernetes, and in the early days of cloud to help developers deploy cloud-native apps faster and easier. Fast forward to today and AI has flipped the ecosystem on its head and the landscape is almost unrecognizable. We’re excited to introduce the next generation of the platform to accelerate the needs of cloud-native and AI app delivery at scale with the delightful developer and operator experiences you’ve come to expect from Heroku.
Learn more about Heroku – Register today to join us online Wednesday, April 30 at 1:00pm ET, to learn more about the next generation of Heroku, the platform for AI apps in any language.