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How Combatant Gentlemen Solved Service Discovery Using Heroku Private Spaces

Scott Raio is Co-Founder and CTO of Combatant Gentlemen], a design-to-delivery menswear e-commerce brand.

What microservices are you running in Heroku Private Spaces?

We’ve written an individual service for every business use case. For example, we have services for order processing, product catalog, account management, authentication, swatch display, POs, logistics, payments, etc.

With all these different services, we chose Heroku Private Spaces as a way to make service discovery easier. We’re currently running about 25 …

Powering the Heroku API With Streams & Apache Kafka

We recently launched Apache Kafka on Heroku into beta. Just like we do with Heroku Postgres, our internal engineering teams have been using our Kafka service to power a number of our internal systems.

The Big Idea

The Heroku platform comprises a large number of independent services. Traditionally we’ve used HTTP calls to communicate between these services. While this approach is simple to implement and easy to reason about, it has a number of drawbacks. …

Neither self nor this: Receivers in Go

Andrey Petrov is the author of urllib3, the creator of Briefmetrics and ssh-chat, and a former Googler and Y Combinator alum. He’s back again to free us of our old ways of thinking, so that we can embrace what's really special about receivers in Go.

When getting started with Go, there is a strong temptation to bring baggage from your previous language. It’s a heuristic which is usually helpful, but sometimes counter-productive and …

How Emarsys Approaches Service Sizing on Heroku

Based in Budapest, Hungary, Andras Fincza (Head of Engineering) and Rafael Ördög (Technical Lead) work for Emarsys, a global marketing automation platform. Read our Emarsys customer story to learn more about their migration experience on Heroku.

How did you introduce microservices at Emarsys?

We take an evolutionary approach to our architecture. Our marketing automation platform was originally designed as a monolithic system built in PHP and MySQL and running on in-house infrastructure. We were …

How Belly Scales Using API Proxies with their Microservices Architecture: Interview with Darby Frey

Darby Frey is Director of Platform Engineering at Belly, the leading loyalty marketing platform in the U.S. For more information, Read our Belly customer story to learn more about how Heroku has helped Belly scale their business.

How did you approach migrating to a microservices architecture?

Originally, we built the entire business on one Rails app. Then a couple years ago, we pivoted to a microservices approach. It is still a work in progress, but …

Introducing Heroku Teams

For many of us, building apps is a team sport. With any team, getting all the people, processes and tools in sync and working together can be a challenge, and this is especially true with software development.

Today we are announcing a new feature designed to help to make building and running effective software teams easier. Available for free (for up to five users), Heroku Teams lets groups of software developers manage different projects, permissions, …

See Python, See Python Go, Go Python Go

Andrey Petrov is the author of urllib3, the creator of Briefmetrics and ssh-chat, and a former Googler and YCombinator alum. He’s here to tell us of a dangerous expedition his requests undertook, which sent them from Python, through the land of C, to a place called Go (and back again).

Today we're going to make a Python library that is actually the Go webserver, for which we can write handlers in Python. It …

Reactive Ruby: Building Real-time Apps with JRuby and Ratpack

Nothing beats Ruby when it comes to rapid development, quick feedback, and delightful coding. The Ruby runtime and traditional ruby frameworks favor synchronous programming, which makes them easy to use and understand. But microservices and real-time apps require asynchronous programming and non-blocking IO to enable maximum throughput. That's where JRuby comes in.

You can build reactive microservices in Ruby using JRuby and frameworks like Ratpack. JRuby interprets Ruby code into Java Virtual Machine (JVM) …

Announcing Heroku Free SSL Beta and Flexible Dyno Hours

Editor's Note: SSL Is Now Included on All Paid Dynos as of September 22, 2016

At Heroku, we want to make it easy for everyone to be able to learn and explore our service, and the related ecosystem of technologies, for free – be it student, professional developer, hobbyist or just curious individual. We view this as both part of our mission and our business model; it has never been a more interesting – or …

Where Will Ruby Go Now? Talking with Tenderlove at RailsConf

Last week at RailsConf in Kansas City, Terence Lee and Richard Schneeman of Heroku’s Ruby Task Force sat down with the legendary Aaron Patterson (AKA tenderlove).

Aaron has been working hard to make Ruby three times faster — a goal that Matz called Ruby 3×3. Along the way, Aaron has discovered that Ruby may face a hard decision. On one side, Ruby can continue to be the productive, general-purpose scripting language that it looks like …

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