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The History of Ember.js: An Interview With Tom Dale at EmberConf – Part One

At EmberConf Terence Lee and I had a chance to sit down with Tom Dale and chat about the history of Ember.js and where it’s headed now, including some details on the newly extracted Glimmer.js rendering engine. This post details a lot of the history of Ember, including some of the motivation that led the framework to what it is today. Watch the blog for the second portion of this interview with all of the …

The Heroku-16 Stack is Now Generally Available

Your Heroku applications run on top of a curated stack, containing the operating system and other components needed at runtime. We maintain the stack – updating the OS, the libraries, and ensuring that known security issues are resolved, so that you can focus on writing code.

Today we're announcing the general availability of Heroku-16, our curated stack based on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. In addition to a new base operating system, Heroku-16 is updated with the …

On Building Tools for Developers: Heroku CI

How we built Heroku CI: our product intuition checked against what the market wants (we surveyed ~1000 developers to figure out the latter, and the results were surprising)

Two approaches to building any product are often in tension: designing from inspiration, and designing from information. On the pure inspiration side, you just build the product you dream of, and trust that it will be so awesome and useful, that it will succeed in the market. …

N+1 Queries or Memory Problems: Why not Solve Both?

This post is going to help save you money if you're running a Rails server. It starts like this: you write an app. Let's say you're building the next hyper-targeted blogging platform for medium length posts. When you login, you see a paginated list of all of the articles you've written. You have a Post model and maybe for to do tags, you have a Tag model, and for comments, you have a Comment model. …

Announcing Free and Automated SSL Certs For All Paid Dynos

We are happy to announce the general availability of Automated Certificate Management (ACM) for all paid Heroku dynos. With ACM, the cumbersome and costly process of provisioning and managing SSL certificates is replaced with a simple experience that is free for all paid Dynos on Heroku’s Common Runtime. Creating secure web applications has never been more important, and with ACM and the Let’s Encrypt project, never easier.

ACM handles all aspects of SSL/TLS certificates …

Introducing the Einstein Vision Add-on for Image Recognition

UPDATE: As of July 31, 2023, Salesforce no longer offers the Object Detection and Image Classification APIs. This means those APIs are no longer available. As a result, the demo app and the Einstein Vision add-on are no longer available.

The most innovative apps augment our human senses, intuition, and logic with machine learning. Deep learning, modelled after the neural networks of the human brain, continues to grow as one of the most powerful types of machine learning. When applied to images, deep learning enables powerful computer vision features like visual search, product identification, and brand detection.

Today, we bring you the Einstein Vision add-on (beta), allowing Heroku developers to easily connect to and use Einstein Vision, a set of powerful new APIs for building AI-powered apps. With this release, Salesforce is making it easy for you to embed image recognition directly into your apps. Rather than building and managing the specialized infrastructure needed to host deep learning models, simply connect to Einstein Vision’s HTTP/REST API for custom image recognition with little development overhead.

Yarn: Lock It in for Deterministic Dependency Resolution

Choices are an important part of a healthy open source software community. That’s why we’re excited about Yarn, a new package manager that addresses many of the problems with Node’s default package manager, npm. While npm has done a fantastic job creating a large and vibrant JavaScript ecosystem, I want to share why Yarn is an important addition to the Node.js ecosystem, how it will improve your Node.js development experience, and how Heroku has …

Bundler Changed Where Your Canonical Ruby Information Lives: What to Know

Heroku bumped its Bundler version to 1.13.7 almost a month ago, and since then we’ve had a large number of support tickets opened, many a variant of the following:

Your Ruby version is <X>, but your Gemfile specified <Y>

I wanted to talk about why you might get this error while deploying to Heroku, and what you can do about it, along with some bonus features provided by the new Bundler version.

Why?

First off, …

Announcing the Sydney, Australia Region for Heroku Private Spaces

Today we’re happy to announce that the Sydney, Australia region is now generally available for use with Heroku Private Spaces. Sydney joins Virginia, Oregon, Frankfurt, and Tokyo as regions where Private Spaces can be created by any Heroku Enterprise user. Developers can now deploy Heroku apps closer to customers in the Asia-Pacific area to reduce latency and take advantage of the advanced network & trust controls of Spaces to ensure sensitive data stays protected.

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Announcing Heroku Autoscaling for Web Dynos

We’re excited to announce that Heroku Autoscaling is now generally available for apps using web dynos.

We’ve always made it seamless and simple to scale apps on Heroku – just move the slider. But we want to go further, and help you in the face of unexpected demand spikes or intermittent activity. Part of our core mission is delivering a first-class operational experience that provides proactive notifications, guidance, and—where appropriate—automated responses to particular application events. …

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