Heroku is a cloud-based, fully-managed platform as a service (Paas) for building, running, and managing apps. The platform’s flexibility and designed experience support you and your team’s preferred development style and help you stay focused and productive. Heroku is a platform as a service (PaaS) that enables developers to build, run, and operate applications entirely in the cloud. Turn your company into an apps company. Today every company needs apps to engage their customers and run their businesses. Step up your ability to build, manage, and deploy great apps at scale with Heroku. Data on Heroku. Build data-driven apps with fully managed data services.
Choose Heroku for the same reasons disruptive startups do: it’s the best platform for building with modern architectures, innovating quickly, and scaling precisely to meet demand. Invest in apps, not ops. Heroku handles the hard stuff — patching and upgrading, 24/7 ops and security, build systems, failovers, and more — so your developers can stay focused on building great apps.
Developers, teams, and organizations are as varied as the apps they produce. You may be a team of one or a distributed workforce, and you may be building a simple prototype or a business-critical product. Regardless of the size and scale of your projects, Heroku gives you the quickest path to delivering apps, using the tools and languages you already love.