Heroku is a cloud platform as a service that enables developers to build, deploy, and scale applications.

It was founded in 2007 and was acquired by Salesforce in 2010.

The platform supports multiple programming languages, including dot net, Ruby, Python, Node.js and Java,

and has features such as automated scaling, database monitoring tools,

and a streamlined deployment workflow. Vish Abrams is the chief architect at Heroku and previously

worked at Oracle and NASA, among other organizations. He joins the show to talk about the history

of Heroku, its role within Salesforce, open sourcing the 12-factor

manifesto, the longstanding challenge of credentials management, and much more.

This episode is hosted by Sean Falconer.

Check the show notes for more information on Sean's work and where to the show.

Thank you.

Awesome.

Well, nice to meet you.

I'm glad you're here.

So you're the chief architect at Heroku.

How did you end up at Salesforce?

I joined Salesforce slash Heroku about six years ago.

Formerly, I was at Oracle where I was working on cloud computing and AI,

helping them build their public cloud.

And I joined because I've always had a deep love for Heroku.

In fact, my early days of software engineering, I was working at NASA where we were trying to replicate the Heroku platform for an internal project at NASA.

I would suspect, like, because Heroku, when I think about it, it was such a pioneer when it came

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