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The Story of Heroku | Lee Robinson

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Heroku made it easy for any developer to build and run applications in the cloud without managing their own infrastructure. Now 15 years later, it continues to inspire the next generation of developers. Why did Heroku become so popular? What can we learn from their incredible developer experience? How is Heroku shaping the next generation of serverless? In 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched EC2, making it easy to run compute on-demand. Developers didn't need to purchase, set up, and manage their own infrastructure anymore – they could pay for cloud compute as needed. At the same time, many developers were building monolithic Ruby on Rails applications. Rails made developers incredibly productive at building applications, but it was still painful and time-consuming to get them deployed. Developers might spend weeks (or months) just on deployment. In 2007, three Ruby developers – James Lindenbaum, Adam Wiggins, and Orion Henry – founded Heroku. Their mission was to make computing m

The Story of Heroku | Lee Robinson The Story of Heroku May 2022 – Lee Robinson Heroku made it easy for any developer to build and run applications in the cloud without managing their own infrastructure. Now 15 years later, it continues to inspire the next generation of developers. Why did Heroku become so popular? What can we learn from their incredible developer experience? How is Heroku shaping the next generation of serverless? Early Days of Heroku In 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched EC2 , making it easy to run compute on-demand. Developers didn’t need to purchase, set up, and manag

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