SourceLabs’ Byron Sebastian joins Heroku as CEO
Heroku, a startup that helps developers deploy web applications built with the Ruby on Rails programming framework, has a new chief executive — Byron Sebastian, founder and former chief executive of open source company SourceLabs.
Sebastian and co-founder James Lindenbaum describe this as a normal startup move, where a company brings on a more experienced executive to lead the team as it’s ready to grow into a big business. In addition to founding SourceLabs, which was… Continue Reading
Heroku starts charging for app-deployment service
A startup called Heroku is launching the commercial version of its platform to help developers deploy their applications to the web. The San Francisco company already provides its “provisionless web hosting” to 23,000 developers, but now it’s ready to start making money from the service.
The idea, says co-founder and chief executive James Lindenbaum, is to eliminate all a developer’s worries about making sure they have enough computing capacity, memory, and storage. Instead, developers just build… Continue Reading
Even more Ruby on Rails investment: Heroku gets $3M
San Francisco startup Heroku has been rolling out tools to help developers build, deploy and scale web applications, and it has gotten some pretty positive buzz in the process. But that’s just the beginning, says co-founder James Lindenbaum. Heroku has now raised a $3 million first round of financing led by Redpoint Ventures, and that means the company can “start to build out some of the rest of our vision,” Lindenbaum says.
Heroku’s offerings are based… Continue Reading
Rails developers showing love for Heroku
San Francisco startup Heroku has found a fresh approach to helping developers build and deploy applications from the popular Ruby on Rails programming framework. It’s the only company to combine automated deployment — in other words, you just upload the code onto your browser and it will go live on the web — with an exclusive focus on Rails, says co-founder James Lindenbaum. Even more exciting is a recently released feature that moves Rails development… Continue Reading