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Announcing Heroku Private Space Peering for AWS

Two years ago, we introduced Heroku Private Spaces as a new platform abstraction that combines powerful network isolation features with the seamless developer experience of Heroku.

Today we are announcing Heroku Private Space Peering, a new capability to connect the isolated Private Space network to apps and services in Amazon VPCs controlled by you. Now you can build apps in Heroku that connect securely and privately to backend systems and workloads in AWS like a directory service, a search stack, a data warehouse, or a legacy SQL database.

Heroku Connect Update: Fast Writes, Global Deployment, Guided Management Experience

Today we are pleased to announce a significant update to Heroku Connect, one that is a culmination of two years of work to improve every aspect of the service. We’ve focused on three primary areas: improving write speed, geographically expanding the service, and intelligently guiding design and troubleshooting workflows. To that end, we’ve enabled bulk writes resulting in a 5x average increase in sync performance to Salesforce, deployed Connect in six global regions to …

PostgreSQL 10 Now Available in Beta on Heroku Postgres

Earlier this month, PostgreSQL 10.0 was released. Today, we are excited to announce PostgreSQL 10 is available in beta on Heroku, bringing a number of notable feature and performance improvements to our managed PostgreSQL database service.

The beta provides customers who want to try out the new release an easy way to do so, while customers who are happy with the current version can continue to stay on version 9.6 until we make version 10 generally available. Also, new databases will continue to default to version 9.6 until we release version 10 to GA.

Container Registry & Runtime GA: Deploy Docker Images to Heroku

In the last few years Docker has emerged as a de facto standard for packaging apps for deployment. Today, Heroku Container Registry and Runtime is generally available, allowing you to deploy your Docker images directly to Heroku.

With Container Registry, you get all of the benefits of Docker — a great local development experience and flexibility to create your own stack — with the benefits of running on Heroku: maintained infrastructure, container orchestration, routing, the …

Heroku Exec and Language Runtime Metrics GA: Runtime Debugging on Heroku

We’ve all been there — you push your code to production and a leak causes memory usage to grow out of control. To determine the root cause of the problem, you need to be able to monitor, inspect, and debug the production application, collecting detailed data at runtime.

Today we’re making it even easier to debug your applications on Heroku, with the general availability of Language Runtime Metrics, starting with JVM languages, and Heroku …

Announcing the Dublin, Ireland Region for Heroku Private Spaces

We are excited to announce the Dublin region for Heroku Private Spaces is now generally available for Heroku Enterprise customers. Dublin joins the growing list of regions that Private Spaces supports: Sydney, Virginia, Oregon, Frankfurt, and Tokyo. With the Private Spaces Dublin region, organizations can build and deploy Heroku-style apps closer to their UK customers, reducing network latency and providing a better user experience.

Heroku Private Spaces, available as part of Heroku Enterprise, is …

Kafka Everywhere: New Plans and Pricing for Apache Kafka on Heroku

Event-driven architectures are on the rise, in response to fast-moving data and constellations of inter-connected systems. In order to support this trend, last year we released Apache Kafka on Heroku – a gracefully integrated, fully managed, and carefully optimized element of Heroku’s platform that is the culmination of years of experience of running many hundreds of Kafka clusters in production and contributing code to the Kafka ecosystem.

Today, we are excited to announce additional plans and pricing in our Kafka offering in order to make Apache Kafka more accessible, and to better support development, testing, and low volume production needs.

Best of the Blogs: A Heroku Community Tour

Heroku is very fortunate to have a strong community of developers that are excited and passionate about our product. Every day we hear from customers who tell us how much easier Heroku has made their lives, and they frequently share stories about interesting technical projects we’ve helped them bring to life.

Our customers love us, and we love them right back. Today we’ll take a look at a few blog posts and applications from Heroku …

Heroku Webhooks: Powering New Integrations and Real-time Notifications

We're happy to announce that Heroku app webhooks is now generally available for all Heroku customers.

App webhooks provide notifications when your Heroku app changes, including modifications to domain settings, releases, add-ons, and dyno formations. These notifications can empower your internal communications, dashboards, bots or anything else that can receive HTTP POST requests. Integrating with Heroku webhooks provides easy support for driving custom workflows and 3rd party tools.

Creating webhooks

With the webhooks CLI plugin, …

Heroku Postgres Update: Configuration, Credentials, and CI

At the core of Heroku’s data services sits Postgres, and today, we are making it even easier to bend Heroku Postgres to the very unique needs of your application’s stack. With these new features, you can easily customize Postgres, making it more powerful and configurable, while retaining all the automation and management capabilities of Heroku Postgres you know and love. By changing Postgres settings, creating and working with database credentials, and providing tight integrations to Heroku and Heroku CI, you now have the ability to further tune your Postgres database to your team’s needs.

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