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- Last Updated: May 20, 2014
- Mark McGranaghan
Today we’re open sourcing the toolchain Heroku uses to design, document, and consume our HTTP APIs. We hope this shows how Heroku thinks about APIs and gives you new tools to create your own. This toolchain includes: An HTTP API design guide, describing how we structure both internal and public-facing APIs and document them using the JSON Schema standard. A tool for working with JSON schemas and using them to generate API documentation. Ruby and Go client code generators for APIs with JSON schemas. Here’s some more information about these things, how we use them at Heroku, and an explanation…
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- Last Updated: January 11, 2013
- Mark McGranaghan
A serious security vulnerability has been found in the Ruby on Rails framework. This exploit affects nearly all applications running Rails and a patch has been made available. Rails developers can get a full list of all your affected Heroku applications by following instructions here. Please address this security vulnerability by immediately upgrading your affected apps to any of the safe versions of Rails listed below. The following Rails versions have been patched and deemed safe from this exploit: 3.2.11 3.1.10 3.0.19 2.3.15 If you do not upgrade, an attacker can trivially gain access to your application, its data, and…
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- Last Updated: October 27, 2010
- Mark McGranaghan
Tuesday was not a good day for Heroku and as a result it was not a good day for our customers. I want to take the time to explain what happened, how we addressed the problem, and what we’re doing in the future to keep it from happening again. Over the past few weeks we have seen unprecedented growth in the rate of new applications being added to the platform. This growth has exacerbated a problem with our internal messaging systems that we’ve known about and been working to address. Unfortunately, the projects that we have underway to address the…
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