Introduction to Heroku PaaS - 12 Factor Apps
Ever thought that you write code and promote, the application runs and automatically deploys?
Do you want to deploy free hosting to your apps?
Heroku lets you deploy, run, and manage applications written in open languages and frameworks such as Ruby, Node.js, Java, Python, Clojure, Scala, Go, and PHP. You can quickly deploy your code with a single command using developer tools like git, GitHub, and Docker. We'll build and run your application with our container-based platform, handling compilation, dependencies, assets, and executables so you can focus on creating engaging experiences for your users.
In this talk, we will explore various features of the Heroku Platform, which is a service-based container that manages all the applications.
Ever thought that you write code and promote, the application runs and automatically deploys?
Do you want to deploy free hosting to your apps?
Heroku lets you deploy, run, and manage applications written in open languages and frameworks such as Ruby, Node.js, Java, Python, Clojure, Scala, Go, and PHP. You can quickly deploy your code with a single command using developer tools like git, GitHub, and Docker. We'll build and run your application with our container-based platform, handling compilation, dependencies, assets, and executables so you can focus on creating engaging experiences for your users.
In this talk, we will explore various features of the Heroku Platform, which is a service-based container that manages all the applications.
About Rohit Bhardwaj
Rohit Bhardwaj is a Director of AI & Data Architecture at Salesforce, where he focuses on enterprise AI, agentic systems, cloud-native architecture, distributed systems, data platforms, security, and large-scale transformation.
Over his career, Rohit has designed and led complex enterprise platforms across AWS, Google Cloud, microservices, real-time data, API ecosystems, resilient distributed systems, and AI-enabled architectures. His work increasingly focuses on the challenges enterprises face as software evolves from deterministic services to AI-native and agentic systems—particularly around reliability, governance, evidence, security, observability, cost, and safe autonomy.
Rohit is the author of System Design with AI Interview Guide: Designing Scalable, Agentic, and Defensible Systems, published by Apress. The book presents a modern approach to system design covering scalability, distributed systems, AI architecture primitives, security, reliability, economics, agentic systems, and real-world architectures including e-commerce, ride sharing, payments, fraud detection, messaging, video streaming, file storage, and search. (Springer Link)
Book:
Amazon: https://a.co/d/09Zs1twa
Publisher / Springer Nature: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/979-8-8688-2782-2
O'Reilly: https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/system-design-with/9798868827822/
Rohit is also an O’Reilly instructor and a frequent speaker at technology conferences including No Fluff Just Stuff, UberConf, GIDS, and other international events. His talks focus on practical architecture lessons from building and operating complex systems, including AI control planes, trusted agents, inference at scale, evidence-first RAG, AI security, distributed-system failure, and AI-era software architecture.
As a trusted advisor and architecture leader, Rohit works at the intersection of business strategy and deep technical architecture—helping teams translate complex business problems into scalable, resilient, secure, and economically sustainable systems.
Rohit holds an MBA in Corporate Entrepreneurship from Babson College and graduate-level education in Computer Science from Boston University and Harvard University.
Connect with Rohit:
LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/rohit-bhardwaj-cloud
X / Twitter: @rbhardwaj1