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