Platform-as-a-service provider Heroku has launched a Facebook App Package today, aiming to help companies more easily build Facebook applications using Heroku's platform.

Heroku enables businesses to easily build, deploy, and scale their applications, and Facebook has been the most popular social platform for these apps. So the company's new Facebook App Package will bring that knowledge and experience helping customers build apps to bear, with resources specifically catered to help Facebook developers. Included in the package is Heroku's dedicated database service, dynos and workers, New Relic app performance monitoring, and memcaching.