Build, Deploy & Scale Custom Applications on Salesforce Platform & Heroku
Facilegators helps development teams and enterprises build powerful custom applications on Salesforce Lightning Platform and deploy cloud-native apps on Heroku — faster time to market, zero infrastructure overhead, and unlimited scalability from day one.
Why Salesforce Platform & Heroku?
Every business has requirements that go beyond what standard Salesforce clouds deliver. Platform and Heroku are where those requirements become production-grade applications — built fast, deployed securely, and scaled without limit.
Extend Salesforce Beyond Standard Limits
Salesforce's standard products cover most needs. Salesforce Platform covers the rest — custom objects that mirror your exact business entities, Apex triggers that enforce complex business rules, LWC components in exactly the layout your team needs, and Flow automations that handle processes too nuanced for declarative tools alone.
Deploy Any App Without Managing Infrastructure
Heroku removes every infrastructure decision from your team's plate. No servers to provision, no clusters to manage, no load balancers to configure. Developers push code and Heroku handles buildpack detection, containerisation, routing, scaling, and SSL — in under 30 seconds from commit to production.
Heroku Connect — Bridge Both Worlds
Heroku Connect synchronises data bidirectionally between your Heroku Postgres database and Salesforce in real time — with no middleware, no ETL pipelines, and no sync latency. Build compute-intensive applications on Heroku, surface results directly in Salesforce, and give every team a unified view regardless of where data was created.
Developer Experience That Does Not Compromise
Both platforms are designed to maximise developer velocity — Salesforce Platform with its declarative-first approach and rich metadata API, Heroku with its Git-push deployment model and instant review apps. Facilegators engineers work natively in both and design every solution for maximum speed to build and ease to maintain.
Enterprise-Grade Security on Both Platforms
Salesforce Platform inherits the full Salesforce security model — field-level security, record sharing, audit trails, and Shield encryption. Heroku Private Spaces provide dedicated runtime environments with network isolation, private space peering, and compliance features for HIPAA, PCI-DSS, and GDPR requirements.
AppExchange — Reach the Salesforce Ecosystem
Salesforce Platform is the foundation for every AppExchange product — the world's largest enterprise application marketplace with over 7,000 apps. Facilegators builds and publishes ISV applications on AppExchange — from security review preparation through package architecture design — helping software companies reach Salesforce's 150,000+ customer base.
Platform & Heroku Capabilities
Eight specialised practice areas across both platforms. One mission: build applications that solve real business problems, deploy without friction, and scale without surprises.
Custom App Development on Salesforce
Design and build bespoke Salesforce applications — custom objects, complex Apex logic, LWC component libraries, and page layouts — that extend your CRM to cover every unique business process your standard cloud configuration cannot reach, without leaving the Salesforce ecosystem.
Lightning Web Component (LWC) Development
Build high-performance, standards-based Lightning Web Components — custom data tables, interactive dashboards, complex form experiences, and embedded visualisations — that surface any Salesforce data in exactly the interface your users need, on desktop and mobile.
Flow & Process Automation
Design sophisticated automation using Salesforce Flow — record-triggered flows, scheduled flows, screen flows, and subflows — replacing manual processes, enforcing business rules, and orchestrating multi-step workflows across objects, users, and external systems without Apex code.
AppExchange ISV Development
Design, build, package, and publish Salesforce AppExchange applications — from managed package architecture and security review preparation through partner program onboarding and listing optimisation — helping software companies distribute products to Salesforce's global customer base.
Heroku App Deployment & Configuration
Configure and deploy production-grade Heroku applications — buildpack selection, environment variable management, add-on provisioning, dyno sizing, custom domain SSL — with full CI/CD pipeline configuration so every code push automatically progresses through staging to production safely.
Heroku Data Services
Provision and manage Heroku Postgres, Heroku Redis, and Apache Kafka — including schema design, connection pooling, read replica configuration, point-in-time recovery, and data encryption — building managed, scalable data layers that grow with your application without manual DBA intervention.
Heroku Connect & Salesforce Integration
Implement Heroku Connect to synchronise data bidirectionally between Heroku Postgres and Salesforce in real time — enabling high-throughput applications to write and process data on Heroku while keeping Salesforce CRM records updated without middleware, ETL pipelines, or manual sync jobs.
Heroku Private Spaces & Enterprise Security
Configure Heroku Private Spaces for enterprise-grade deployment — dedicated runtime environments with network isolation, private space peering, Shield security posture, and compliance configurations for HIPAA, PCI-DSS, and GDPR — giving regulated industries the full Heroku developer experience inside a compliant deployment boundary.
The Facilegators Difference
Senior Platform engineers, Heroku-certified architects, and a relentless focus on code quality, deployment reliability, and long-term maintainability — not features delivered once, then abandoned.
Salesforce Platform & Heroku Expertise
Crest Partner status. 150+ certified consultants including Salesforce Platform Developers, Heroku Architects, and AppExchange ISV specialists — with deep cross-cloud Salesforce knowledge ensuring every custom application is designed to complement, not conflict with, your standard cloud configuration.
Right Platform for Every Use Case
We never default to one platform over the other. Facilegators evaluates each requirement against both Platform and Heroku — recommending the architecture that delivers the best developer experience, the most maintainable codebase, and the lowest total cost of ownership for that specific use case.
DevOps & CI/CD from Day One
Every Salesforce Platform and Heroku engagement Facilegators delivers includes proper source control, automated testing, CI/CD pipeline configuration, and deployment governance — not as an afterthought, but as the foundation that makes every subsequent release reliable, auditable, and reversible.
Code Quality Standards
Facilegators enforces Apex best practices, LWC design patterns, Heroku Twelve-Factor App principles, and test coverage standards on every engagement — producing codebases your internal team can maintain, extend, and hand to other developers without a reverse-engineering project.
Scalability Architecture
We design every Platform and Heroku solution for your next three years of growth — Apex bulk processing patterns for millions of records, Heroku dyno architectures that scale horizontally under load, and data models that accommodate new objects and relationships without restructuring what already exists.
Ongoing Managed Development
We offer post-launch managed development retainers — dedicated sprint capacity for feature extensions, bug resolution, performance optimisation, and platform version upgrades — so your Platform and Heroku applications keep evolving with your business rather than becoming technical debt after the initial build.
Our Implementation Process
Five proven phases — from defining the right architecture to delivering a production-grade application your team can own, extend, and scale independently.
Requirements & Platform Selection
We map your functional requirements, technical constraints, data model, user base, and scalability expectations — then recommend the right architecture across Salesforce Platform, Heroku, or a connected combination of both, with a clear rationale for every decision and a build-versus-buy analysis for each component.
Architecture & Design
We produce a complete application design — data model, API contracts, component hierarchy, automation specifications, security design, DevOps pipeline architecture, and Heroku dyno and data service configuration — reviewed and approved before any code is written.
Agile Build
Two-week sprints delivering working, testable application increments. Stakeholders review and approve functionality every fortnight. Test coverage is maintained above 85% throughout. Every sprint closes with a deployable, demo-ready build — not a progress report describing future features.
Handover & Ongoing Development
We deliver full technical documentation, conduct developer handover sessions, transfer all source code to your repository, and offer managed development retainers for teams that want Facilegators to continue building features, optimising performance, and maintaining the application alongside your internal team.
Frequently Asked Questions
Straight answers to the questions every CTO, product leader, and Salesforce architect asks before starting a Platform or Heroku engagement.
What is the difference between Salesforce Platform and Heroku?
Salesforce Platform (Lightning Platform / Force.com) is a development environment built inside Salesforce — ideal for applications that need native access to Salesforce data, the Salesforce security model, and the Salesforce UI framework. Every app on Salesforce Platform lives within your org and is governed by the same sharing, permissions, and governance model as your CRM. Heroku is an entirely separate cloud platform running any application in any programming language — ideal for customer-facing web apps, high-throughput APIs, compute-intensive workloads, and developer teams that need full stack control without infrastructure management. The two platforms are complementary: Heroku Connect lets data flow bidirectionally between them in real time, enabling solutions that use both for exactly what each does best.
What programming languages and frameworks does Heroku support?
Heroku officially supports Node.js, Python, Java, Ruby, PHP, Go, Scala, and Clojure through standard buildpacks. Beyond these, Heroku supports custom buildpacks — meaning virtually any language or framework can be deployed, including .NET, Rust, Elixir, and Kotlin. Docker container deployment is also fully supported, giving teams complete control over the runtime environment. Facilegators recommends the language and framework that best fits your team's existing expertise and the performance profile of your specific application.
What is Heroku Connect and when should we use it?
Heroku Connect is a data synchronisation service that keeps a Heroku Postgres database bidirectionally in sync with Salesforce objects in real time — with configurable field mappings, upsert behaviour, and polling frequency. It is the recommended integration pattern when you need a high-throughput or compute-intensive application on Heroku that also reads from or writes back to Salesforce CRM records. Common use cases include customer-facing portals that handle high traffic without hitting Salesforce API limits, data processing pipelines that enrich Salesforce records, and mobile application backends that surface Salesforce data without direct API calls from the device.
How long does a Salesforce Platform or Heroku project take?
A focused Salesforce Platform project — a custom Lightning app with five to ten custom objects, LWC components, and Flow automations — typically takes six to ten weeks from kick-off to go-live. A complex custom application with Apex integrations, AppExchange packaging, and advanced automation can range from twelve to twenty weeks. A Heroku deployment — covering app configuration, CI/CD pipeline, Heroku Postgres, Heroku Connect, and Private Spaces — typically takes three to eight weeks depending on application complexity. Facilegators uses a phased delivery model so your first application increment is in front of users within four weeks of kick-off.