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Heroku (her-OH-koo)is a cloud platform as a service (PaaS) supporting several programming languages. It was founded in 2007 by Orion Henry, James Lindenbaum, and Adam Wiggins.Heroku was acquired by Salesforce.com in 2010. Heroku, one of the first 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, PHP and Go. The base operating system is Debian or, in the newest stack, the Debian-based Ubuntu.

History
James Lindenbaum, Adam Wiggins, and Orion Henry founded Heroku supporting Rack-compatible projects. In October 2009, Byron Sebastian joined Heroku as CEO. 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. That same month, Heroku added support for Node.js and Clojure. On September 15, 2011, Heroku and Facebook introduced Heroku for Facebook. Heroku now supports Cloudant, Couchbase Server, MongoDB and Redis databases in addition to its standard PostgreSQL, both as part of its platforms and as standalone services. 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. Heroku's Git server handles application repository pushes from permitted users.,,

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

Competitors
Some of the competitors in PaaS space are:
 * Cloud Foundry
 * CloudBees
 * dotCloud
 * AppHarbor
 * CloudControl
 * Engine Yard
 * AWS Elastic Beanstalk
 * Google App Engine
 * OpenShift