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On February 16th, we published a blog post outlining five specific and immediate actions we would take to improve our Rails customers' experience with Heroku. We want to provide you with an update on where these things stand. As a reminder, here’s what we committed to do: Improve our documentation so that it accurately reflects how our service works across both Bamboo and Cedar stacks Remove incorrect and confusing metrics reported by Heroku or partner services like New Relic Add metrics that let customers determine queuing impact on application response times Provide additional tools that developers can use to augment…

Yesterday, one of our customers let us know about significant performance issues they have experienced on Heroku. They raised an important issue and I want to let our community know about it. In short, Ruby on Rails apps running on Bamboo have experienced a degradation in performance over the past 3 years as we have scaled. We failed to explain how our product works. We failed to help our customers scale. We failed our community at large. I want to personally apologize, and commit to resolving this issue. Our goal is to make Heroku the best platform for all developers.…

The rails community is making the final push to get 3.1 out and is looking for your help! As part of a worldwide effort over the weekend, Heroku is hosting a local hackfest to help finalize Rails 3.1. On Saturday, July 23rd from 12pm to 5pm, Heroku will be hosting a gathering for the Rails 3.1 Hackfest. We're looking for people that want to improve things at all levels of the Rails stack – from debugging to documentation. Come with apps to upgrade to Rails 3.1. We'll also be working on getting Rails 3.1 apps running on Heroku's Celadon Cedar…

On April 21st 2011, Heroku experienced a widespread application outage. We have posted a full post-mortem detailing the causes and steps we are taking to prevent similar outages from happening in the future. Heroku status always contains our current status. You can follow @herokustatus to follow status updates via twitter.

UPDATE: Node.JS is now officially available on Heroku. In April we released experimental support for Node.js. Response was instant and overwhelming. Now, nearly 1,000 people are using Node.js on Heroku. The goal of the experiment was to understand what it would take to run Node.js in the most Heroku way possible. The experiment was extremely successful. People have built great apps, provided feedback, and engaged in ways beyond our expectations. Three of the key requests we’ve heard are: Support for long connections, beyond a 30 second timeout HTTP 1.1 and websockets Scaling Node.js as easily as Ruby While we work…

With over 80,000 applications on Heroku, we are frequently asked what type of apps people are building. While there’s a wide range, one of the areas I’ve been most excited about is social apps. We have thousands of social applications around Twitter, Facebook, and other platforms. The Social App Workshop last month was proof of the interest with a sold out crowd of over 150 people filling a basement on a great summer Saturday. Social platforms are sweeping enterprises as well. From internal communities for collaboration to external communities with millions of users, enterprises are finding social software essential to…

Last month’s Social App Workshop was a huge success. With a sold out crowd of over 150 people filling the basement of our new office, a great lineup of presenters and some fun coding in the afternoon it surpassed our expectations. Social App Workshop is a hacker event for new and experienced developers working on Twitter & Facebook apps. With a combination of presentations and coding the workshop brings developers together to work on social apps. The morning was spent with a combination of 10 min talks and 30 min talks from Facebook, Twitter, Heroku, Apigee, Twilio, and Abraham Williams.…

Bundler is quickly shaping up to meet all it’s promise as THE best way to manage your application dependencies. This afternoon we updated Heroku to the latest version – 1.0.0RC5. RC5 addresses all known outstanding issues including the git sourced gems. You can see a full changelog on github. One key problem Bundler was designed to address was the shifting sands of various gems updating and changing dependencies. As many of you have probably found in the past before Bundler, deploying could unexpectedly install new versions of gems on you, breaking your application. Bundler has added a new flag: “—deployment”…