Matthew Soldo

Today Heroku is rolling out one of the most significant upgrades ever to our Postgres Database-as-a-Service. This new release is focused on a set of services that run on top of your Heroku Postgres database, making it easier to understand and operate, especially at scale. In addition, we are rolling out new production database plans with double the memory and 2-3 times the performance of our existing plans at the same cost to you. These features represent a new experience for our Postgres service, which we collectively call DbX, for database experience. The highlight of these new features is Performance…

Visibility into your application is necessary to properly analyze and troubleshoot issues as they arise. One of the key factors to good visibility is using logs as event streams and treating them as the canonical source of what happened on an app. The challenge with using logs is to correlate events across the stack consisting of your application's code and Heroku's platform components. Today, we are releasing new functionality that makes this simple. By using the emerging X-Request-ID convention, you can easily correlate multiple log entries to individual HTTP(s) requests. HTTP Request IDs are now enabled on all Heroku apps.…

Having a web or mobile app become hugely popular is one of those "good problems" to have. But success is still its own challenge – making any architecture work at high volume can often create a unique kind of complexity. And as the Internet grows, and apps become more prevalent, its an increasingly common requirement. The largest app on Heroku routinely exceeds 10,000 requests / second, and two of the top 50 sites on the Internet (as measured by Quantcast) – Urban Dictionary and Upworthy – run on Heroku. Across all apps, Heroku is now serving over 5 billion requests…

Editor's Note: We are cross-posting this article from the Salesforce Blog. It shows how we are bringing Heroku to a new market and audience – Salesforce customers – using a new product and message. If you are a user of both Heroku and Salesforce and are interested in connecting them. Apps are an essential part of the Internet of Customers. They are the dashboards to people’s lives. They allow your customers to be part of your business’ workflows, and for you to engage with them on an unprecedented level. Customer connected apps are the next phase of how companies are…

At our core, Heroku’s goal is to make it easier for developers to build great apps. We do this by creating tools which allow developers to focus on writing code, rather than wasting time on managing infrastructure. To coincide with this week’s Dreamforce event, we are launching several tools targeted at developers who write apps on Heroku that integrate with Salesforce.com. If you aren’t part of the Salesforce world, don’t worry. We remain 100% committed to our core audience of web and mobile developers and will continue to release great new features and functionality like websockets and high-availability databases. Force.com,…

Thousands of Heroku customers have already updated their apps to utilize 2X dynos since they entered public beta on April 5. By providing twice the memory and CPU share, 2X dynos help to improve app performance and efficiency. 2X Dynos enter General Availability today. Starting tomorrow, June 1, 2013, 2X dynos will be billed at the full $0.10 per hour rate. Heroku customers have used 2X dynos to solve a number of problems: 1. Concurrency for Rails with Unicorn – Rails apps see significant performance improvements using Unicorn. In-dyno queuing allows requests to be served by any available worker. 2X…

This Wednesday 10/17 from 3-5pm we will be holding office hours for customers and users in our San Francisco office. This is an opportunity for you to come meet us and ask questions about developing your apps on Heroku. It is an opportunity for us to learn more about you and your needs. Heroku engineers, product managers, and designers will be available to chat with you about your code, application, business, or whatever else you want. Maybe you're a new user, and have some getting started questions. Perhaps you've been using Heroku for ages and have a high level architectural…