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Heroku
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Heroku, Inc. Heroku logo.png Type Subsidiary Industry	Cloud platform as a service Founded	2007 Founder	James Lindenbaum, Adam Wiggins, Orion Henry Headquarters	San Francisco, California Parent	Salesforce.com Website	heroku.com Developed in July 2007, Heroku is a cloud Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) supporting several programming languages and being used as a web application deployment model. Heroku was acquired by Salesforce.com in 2010.[1] Heroku, one of the first cloud platforms[citation needed], 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.[2][3]

Contents [hide] 1	History 2	What does the name mean 3	See also 4	Referencessmdcbj, 5	External links History[edit source] Heroku was initially developed by James Lindenbaum, Adam Wiggins, and Orion Henry for supporting projects that we compatible with the Rack James Lindenbaum, Adam Wiggins, and Orion Henry founded Heroku supporting Rack-compatible projects.[4] In October 2009, Byron Sebastian joined Heroku as CEO.[5] 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.[6] That same month, Heroku added support for Node.js and Clojure. On September 15, 2011, Heroku and Facebook introduced Heroku for Facebook.[7] Heroku now supports MongoDB and Redis databases[8][9] in addition to its standard PostgreSQL.[10] 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.[11][12]

What does the name mean[edit source] According to various sources:[13][14] The term is merger of "Hero" and "Haiku". The Japanese theme is a nod to Matz for creating Ruby.

See also[edit source] Cocaine (PaaS) Nodejitsu Distelli OpenShift Bluemix References[edit source] Jump up ^ Bay Area mergers and acquisitions, Dec. 13 (news article), SF Gate Jump up ^ "Heroku". Crunchbase. Retrieved March 2, 2016. Jump up ^ "About Heroku". Stack Overflow. Retrieved March 2, 2016. Jump up ^ Ruby on Rails Startup Heroku Gets $3 Million, Tech Crunch, 2008-05-08 Jump up ^ SourceLabs' Byron Sebastian Joins Heroku as CEO, Venture Beat, 2009-10-14 Jump up ^ Ruby’s Creator, Matz, Joins Heroku (article), Ruby Inside, 2011-07-12 Jump up ^ Facebook Partners With Heroku to Offer Developers Free Sample Application Hosting, Social Times Jump up ^ "Six Things to Consider When Using Redis on Heroku". Redis Labs. Retrieved March 2, 2016. Jump up ^ NoSQL, Heroku, and You (weblog), Heroku, 2010-07-20 Jump up ^ "Rails Heroku Tutorial". RailsApps Project. Retrieved March 2, 2016. Jump up ^ Scalability: How does Heroku work? Jump up ^ Deploying application Node.js on Heroku Jump up ^ "The term is merger of "Hero" and "Haiku". | Hacker News". news.ycombinator.com. Retrieved 2016-08-05. Jump up ^ "Douglas Drumond's answer to What does Heroku mean? - Quora". qr.ae. Retrieved 2016-08-05. External links[edit source] Heroku (official site)