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Join us for a Live Q&A Chat with Salesforce Product Managers

Wade Wegner is SVP of Product for Salesforce Platform.

On a recent and all-too-short trip to London, I was humbled to have developers in the community spend time with me and other product managers at the UK Salesforce Tower. Building on the massively popular open dialogue with developers that we initiated at Dreamforce last year, our discussion was a transparent conversation with developers who have been building on the Salesforce platform.

I was incredibly inspired …

PostgreSQL 12 Generally Available on Heroku

After a successful evaluation period, PostgreSQL 12 is now the default version for new Heroku Postgres databases and an available upgrade for existing databases.

I want to emphasize a few key changes and improvements in Postgres 12:

Native Table Partitioning Concurrent Operations

Native Partitioning was introduced in PostgreSQL 10 and performance improvements for improved parallel processing were added in PostgreSQL 11. Updating tables, altering partitions blocking queries, and executing concurrent operations for Native Partitioning were …

Ruby 2.7.0: The Traditional Holiday Release Is Here

When Heroku launched in 2007 there was only a single Ruby version that could be used on the platform. In 2012 Heroku began to support multiple Ruby versions. Since then, we’ve had a holiday tradition of releasing the new versions of Ruby on the same day they come out, which always happens on Christmas day (December 25th).

If you’re new to the community, you might be curious about where releasing a new minor version …

Announcing Heroku Data Services Integrations Using mutual TLS and PrivateLink

Today, we’re thrilled to announce four new trusted data integrations that allow data to flow seamlessly and securely between Heroku and external resources in public clouds and private data centers:

  • Heroku Postgres via mutual TLS
  • Heroku Postgres via PrivateLink
  • Apache Kafka on Heroku via PrivateLink
  • Heroku Redis via PrivateLink

These integrations expand Heroku’s security and trust boundary to cover the connections to external resources and the data that passes through them. They enable true multi-cloud …

Apache Kafka on Heroku Shield is Now Generally Available

We are thrilled to announce that Apache Kafka on Heroku Shield is now generally available and certified for handling PHI, PII, and HIPAA-compliant data. Our newest managed data service unifies Heroku Shield, a set of Heroku platform services that offer additional security features needed for building high compliance applications, with Apache Kafka on Heroku, our fully-managed service based on the leading open-source solution for handling event streams.

Organizations of all sizes face relentless pressure to …

Announcing General Availability of Heroku Enterprise Accounts

Today we are thrilled to announce the general availability (GA) release of Heroku Enterprise Accounts. All Enterprise Teams associated with a company are nested under an Enterprise Account which delivers a higher level of visibility and accountability. With an Enterprise Account, executives and admins can ensure trust and improved agility with simple fast management of teams, users and expenses, so application development teams can stay focused on the development process.

With applications sitting at …

Why Frequent Maintenances Are Essential for Secure Heroku Data Services

There are many reasons to choose Heroku Data services, but keeping the services you use secure and up-to-date rank near the top. This foundation of trust is the most important commitment we make to our customers, and frequent and timely maintenances are one way we deliver on this promise.

We do everything we can to minimize downtime, which is typically between 10 – 60 seconds per maintenance. There are ways for you to minimize disruption too (see the tips and tricks below). The rest of the post explains how we think about Heroku Data maintenances, how we perform them, and when we perform them.

An Ounce of Prevention…

Hackers exploit known but unpatched vulnerabilities or out-of-date software. Minimizing the time between when a patch or update becomes available and when it gets deployed is the most effective means of limiting damage. There’s nothing worse than seeing your company’s high-profile breach at the top of Hacker News and the Wall Street Journal.

This business and reputation risk is real. Like you, we’re faced with the same choice. We believe it’s best to budget some prevention time upfront for patching and updating data services. Otherwise, an incident may cost us (and you) a larger amount of remediation time and effort, to say nothing of the potential damage done to our (and your) brand, business, and customers.

That’s why we invest significant engineering, security, and operations effort into creating a proactive security posture that keeps your stack up-to-date through frequent, scheduled maintenances.

Heroku Postgres via PrivateLink Is Now Generally Available

Today, we’re thrilled to announce Heroku Postgres via PrivateLink, a new integration that enables customers to seamlessly and securely connect Heroku Postgres databases in Private Spaces to resources in one or more Amazon VPCs. Heroku Postgres via PrivateLink connections are secure and stable by default because traffic to and from Heroku Postgres stays on the Amazon private network; once a PrivateLink is set up, there is no brittle networking configuration to manage. As always, security …

A Dialog with Your Data Using the New Dataclips

The data we store holds value, but refining data into meaning remains a difficult task. Over the last few months, we’ve taken a step back to figure out what we can do to help our users cross that divide, and rebuilt Heroku Dataclips from scratch with that goal in mind. The result is an experience that makes accessing and working with your data easier than ever, enabling anyone on your team familiar with SQL to …

PostgreSQL 11 Generally Available on Heroku

After a successful two-month Beta period, PostgreSQL 11 is now the default version for all new provisioned Heroku Postgres databases. All Postgres extensions, tooling, and integration with the Heroku developer experience are ready to use, giving you the power of PostgreSQL 11 with the ease and usability of Heroku for building data-centric applications.

We’d like to re-emphasize a few features – among the many released in Postgres 11 – that we are particularly excited about.

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