Heroku publishes API for its platform cloud
May 31, 2013
Grazed from The Register. Author: Jack Clark.
Heroku has released the public beta of a platform API to help its developers build apps and services that sit on top of its PaaS, which in turn sits on Amazon Web Services. With the platform API, Heroku is letting developers "automate, extend and combine Heroku with other services," the company wrote on Thursday. This lets you build a service which sits on a platform (Heroku) that sits on a virtualized infrastructure cloud (Amazon).
Potential use cases include automating workloads, combining Heroku with other services, and building apps for controlling Heroku environments from smartphones and tablets. A handy way of thinking about this is that Heroku is a pilot fish to Amazon’s great big shark, and now Heroku has made an API available that could let developers build little complementary Heroku fish…
"Someone developing a self-hosted blog could create a tool to automatically build up all the required settings for a blog into a user’s account. Or someone running a continuous integration server could use this to manage test runs on Heroku or [deployments] based on passing tests," Wesley Beary who heads up Heroku’s API team, told The Register via email…
Read more from the source @ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/05/30/heroku_cloud_api/