Heroku, Salesforce Inc.’s platform-as-a-service, is renovating the Heroku platform to encompass all the latest cloud technology.

Since Heroku was created before Kubernetes was created, the company has had to update its platform. At this week’s Amazon re:Invent, Heroku announced pilot availability for a fully cloud-native version of the platform.

“These pilot releases are incredibly important for Heroku,” said Gail Frederick (pictured), Heroku chief technology officer at Salesforce. “We have a fully cloud-native platform. We have a managed inferencing add-on available to our customers, and so we’re going to be spending the next year bringing these products to GA and then expanding the reach of these products across regions. You’re going to see us do more and more in AI.”

Frederick spoke with theCUBE Research’s Bob Laliberte for theCUBE’s “Cloud AWS re:Invent Coverage,” during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed what’s next for the Heroku platform. (* Disclosure below.)

Modernizing the Heroku platform

Heroku is known for its common runtime and offering private spaces for companies that want isolated environments. Now, the company offers .NET, the open-source platform, end-to-end, on top of its own informant, cloud-native platform.

“Heroku’s platform is older than any cloud standard,” Frederick said. “What we have been doing is a total overhaul in uplift to be conformant with cloud-native standards. So, we have a Kubernetes conformant control plane. Our customers are going to see the massive scale that they’re used to with Heroku, with increased performance.”

Heroku has implemented Agentforce, which allows users to access all the latest models inside the Heroku environment. The company also open-sourced its Twelve Factor project, a series of principles for running and deploying applications. The announcement was received with enthusiasm, according to Frederick.

“Today, Twelve Factors are principles, they’re documents, but I think we’re going to see participants offering code, offering examples about how to implement a factor in an application,” she said. “I can’t wait. I have a lot of excitement about this project.”

Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s “Cloud AWS re:Invent Coverage”:

(* Disclosure: Salesforce Inc. sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither Salesforce nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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