Heroku has long been investing in making programming education available to more people just by providing their free tier. Continuing and expanding their suppo

Heroku has long been investing in making programming education available to more people just by providing their free tier. Continuing and expanding their support for engineers contributing to educational programs is smart for Heroku, just as is investing in open source software. Both endeavors benefit Heroku's marketing, recruitment, and employee satisfaction. And, just like contributing to open source, helping with educational programs has hardly any barrier-to-entry, and is something pretty much any tech company can get into. At the very least, encouraging engineers to participate in programs like Rails Girls is something every company should do. It's just smart.