Engineering
- Engineering
- Last Updated: March 28, 2024
- Scott Persinger
Heroku Connect is a service offered by Heroku which performs 2-way data synchronization between Salesforce and a Heroku Postgres database.
When we first built Heroku Connect, we decided to use polling to determine when data had changed on either side. Polling isn’t pretty, but its simple and reliable, and those are “top line” features for Heroku Connect. But polling incurs two significant costs: high latency and wasted resources. The more you poll the more you waste API calls and database queries checking when there are no data changes. But if you lengthen your polling interval then you grow the latency for the data synchronization.
- Engineering
- Last Updated: April 24, 2024
- Scott Persinger
Force.com and Heroku are both part of the Salesforce1 platform. There are lots of great ways to leverage force.com from your Heroku app. This article will give an overview and pointers to get you started.
- Engineering
- Last Updated: May 15, 2014
- Wesley Beary
Today we’re open sourcing the toolchain Heroku uses to design, document, and consume our APIs. We hope this shows how Heroku thinks about APIs and gives you new tools to create your own APIs.
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