James Lindenbaum
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- Last Updated: November 23, 2011
- James Lindenbaum
Heroku's Postgres database service, the origins of which date back to 2007, is one of the most battle-tested cloud database services around. Over the last year, our growing data team has done an amazing job of dramatically increasing the scale, reliability, and durability of the service – now boasting 99.99% (measured) uptime and over 400 million write-transactions per day. Until now, the service has only been available to Heroku customers, but today we are pleased to announce the launch of Heroku Postgres as a standalone database service. Included in this launch is a new web interface for managing databases, as…
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- Last Updated: July 13, 2011
- James Lindenbaum
英語版はこちら(English version here)。 本日は、Herokuの歴史において非常に特別な日です ―― Rubyの作者、まつもとゆきひろ氏、Matzを、RubyのチーフアーキテクトとしてHerokuに迎えることになったのです。 ほとんどのプログラミング言語が計算効率を重視していた1993年、Matzは開発者の作業環境、満足度、生産性に重点を置いた言語を生み出したいと考えました。この考えはアジャイル(俊敏な)ソフトウェアメソドロジというトレンドに数年先立つものでした(たとえば2001年に発行されたAgile Software Manifesto)。 このユニークな考えに基づき、Matzは美しくエレガントな言語を生み出しました。この言語の熱心な支持者の数は着実に増加し、David Heinemeier Hansson氏のWebフレームワークRuby on Railsと言った後押しもあり、ここ最近で急速に広がってきました。現在Rubyはコラボレーティブな真のオープンソース環境を実現し、数百の貢献者の支援を受ける強力なコミュニティとなっています。 Matzは言語としてのRubyのデザインだけでなく最も幅広く利用されているRubyの公式実装(Matz’s Ruby Interpreter, MRI)を推し進めてきましたが、今後もHerokuで少数精鋭のRubyコアグループと共にこの活動を続けていくことになります。 Herokuは多言語プラットフォームですが(現在公式にサポートしている言語はRuby、Node.js、Clojure)、Rubyはこれまでと変わらず最も好ましい言語の1つで、そのサポートに大規模な投資を続けていきます。 私たちは、Rubyが大好きです ―― これからもMatzとそのチームにこの言語のデザインとアーキテクトの発展に必要な人的資源・物的資源を提供することで、RubyコミュニティとRubyの「大先生」である同氏に少しでも還元していくことができればと考えています。 Herokuチーム
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- Last Updated: June 03, 2024
- James Lindenbaum
Japanese version here (日本語版はこちら). Today marks a very special occasion in the history of Heroku, as we are honored to announce that Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto, the creator of Ruby, has joined the Heroku team as Chief Architect, Ruby. In 1993, a time when most programming languages were focussed on computational efficiency, Matz wanted to create a language focussed on developer experience, happiness, and productivity. This insight was years ahead of the trend toward agile software methodologies (the Agile Software Manifesto, for example, was published in 2001). With this unique intention, Matz created a beautiful and elegant language that has steadily…
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- Last Updated: May 02, 2024
- James Lindenbaum
Super psyched to announce a major new version of Heroku, the Celadon Cedar stack, going into public beta today (previous stacks were Argent Aspen in 2009, and Badious Bamboo in 2010). Cedar has many new features and updates, but most importantly introduces a new way of thinking about web application architecture and scaling apps on Heroku: the process model. Check it out: New stack Celadon Cedar moves into public beta today: $ heroku create –stack cedar Creating blazing-galaxy-997… done, stack is cedar http://blazing-galaxy-997.herokuapp.com/ | git@heroku.com:blazing-galaxy-997.git Cedar Docs Define your process types with Procfile: $ cd myapp/ $ cat Procfile web:…
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- Last Updated: May 02, 2024
- James Lindenbaum
Since launching Ruby support in 2007, we’ve been constantly expanding the platform to accommodate more application types and to make the platform more accessible to a broader audience of developers. We are very pleased today to announce full support for applications written in the Logo programming language. Going back to our roots with an in-browser editor, we believe that interactive programming and getting started quickly lend well to learning. Ruby is an excellent language for learning, and Logo is even better. Logo is a fully-featured and beautifully designed functional Lisp-style programming language. It shares many properties with (and is an…
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- Last Updated: December 08, 2010
- James Lindenbaum
What if enterprise apps were built the way you’d build an agile Ruby app? What if they were a pleasure to work with, deploy, and manage? What if big companies could adopt the philosophies of Heroku and the Ruby community? What if your company actually preferred you use Heroku to build apps? That’s the next level for Heroku. That’s where we want to go, so we’ve made a decision we’re excited to share: we have signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by salesforce.com. We expect the deal to close by January 31st. Why Salesforce.com? Salesforce.com is the original cloud…
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- Last Updated: May 02, 2024
- James Lindenbaum
This morning we are very excited to announce our new Add-on Provider Program, which allows anyone to easily build a Heroku add-on, making it available to all Heroku developers and customers to purchase with one click. We first launched add-ons almost a year ago. Since then, they have been hugely successful, many add-ons being purchased thousands of times. Hundreds of cloud service providers have contacted us wanting to build their own add-ons. We’ve spent the past nine months iterating with add-on providers to create an API that’s easy to use and easy to get started with. We’re excited to release…
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- Last Updated: April 28, 2010
- James Lindenbaum
It’s been a great first quarter for us, and it’s time for a brief update on where we are and where we’re headed. Growth Heroku’s growth has continued to be huge. 1,500 new apps were deployed to Heroku last week alone, and that number increases every week. Next week we will cross the 60,000 application mark. As you can imagine, traffic is growing even more quickly, serving billions of requests per month. In fact, traffic has grown by 4x over the last four months: Many are finding great value in the platform and paying for features and scale. Our customer…
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- Last Updated: January 22, 2010
- James Lindenbaum
You, our customers, have given us great feedback that in some places our pricing isn’t aligned with the value we provide, and in other places our pricing is just confusing. We want to be more transparent about how we’re thinking about pricing, so today we’re announcing our pricing philosophy, as well as the first of a series of changes: moving away from storage based pricing on our database offering. Platform Value and Pricing Philosophy You have told us loud and clear that the value you get from the platform is saved time and opportunity cost, shorter deployment cycles, increased agility,…
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- Last Updated: April 24, 2024
- James Lindenbaum
Big things are happening at Heroku, so we felt it was time for an overall update. I’m happy to say that not only has the platform doubled in size over the last 12 months to well over 35,000 live apps, but usage has become more serious and far more intense. Tons of business-critical apps are now live on Heroku, and rely on us for dependable, secure, scalable service, 24/7. We are seeing some really cool and complex composite apps now that the platform has expanded and become more flexible. The app scale we’re seeing has jumped too, with many apps…
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