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Building a P2P Marketplace on Heroku: An Interview with Vitali Margolin

Based in Tel Aviv, Israel, Vitali Margolin is the Head of R&D for Roomer. Vitali leads a team of seven developers who built and operate the travel marketplace www.roomertravel.com and the travel protection service Life Happens, both running on Heroku.

What are you running on Heroku?

The four big projects are: the Roomer website, our administration app, our partner network and B2B website, and the Roomer API. The Roomer API is our highest load app. …

Heroku Pipelines Emerges from Beta

Today is a big day for Heroku Pipelines — our continuous delivery feature that provides a visual sequence of app environments in which to test, stage, and deliver code through to production. Pipelines is now released for General Availability (GA).

Heroku Pipelines provides teams of all sizes a new way to visualize and manage the development of applications, features, and fixes from dev and test, to staging, to production (and supports even more stages if …

Deploy Parse API Server On Heroku’s Scalable Platform

Three months ago we announced that Parse would be opening their Cloud Code product so that their customers would be able to deploy their mobile backends to Heroku. This allowed Parse customers to use a full Node.js environment with Cloud Code. With Parse’s recent announcement, we’re taking that one step further, by allowing you to deploy your own Parse API server to Heroku.

What this means for developers is that you will now be able …

How Lean Poker Teaches Continuous Deployment on Heroku

In 2013, Rafael Ördög put poker and code together, the result: Lean Poker, a competitive coding event that teaches continuous deployment and lean startup methodologies. Rafael is based in Budapest, Hungary.

What’s Lean Poker?

Lean Poker is a coding workshop that is designed to teach people how to practice continuous deployment and lean startup methodologies. Companies can sponsor a free public event or hold an internal, team-building event for their own employees.

The basic …

Heroku Private Spaces Now Generally Available

Today Heroku is announcing that Heroku Private Spaces is generally available. Introduced in beta in September, Private Spaces is a new Heroku runtime designed from the ground up to meet the trust and control requirements of the most demanding applications. This new architecture enables Private Spaces to deliver the best of both worlds: the easy and powerful Heroku developer experience, combined with the network and trust controls historically only available in on-premise, behind-the-firewall deployments. Made …

SSO for Heroku Now Generally Available

Today we’re pleased to announce that SSO for Heroku is generally available for Heroku Enterprise customers.

SSO for Heroku supports single sign-on for SAML 2.0 compliant identity providers (IdPs), making it easier for Heroku Enterprise customers to manage identity across various systems. It also simplifies set-up for system administrators, allowing them to focus on managing authentication.

Both cloud and on-premise identity providers are supported by SSO for Heroku. As of today, a number of popular …

Upgrading to Rails 5 Beta – The Hard Way

Rails 5 has been brewing for more than a year. To take advantage of new features, and stay on the supported path, you'll need to upgrade. In this post, we'll look at the upgrade process for a production Rails app, codetriage.com. The codebase is open source so you can follow along. Special thanks to Prathamesh for his help with this blog post.

How Stable is the Beta?

In Rails a beta means the …

Here’s Postgres 9.5: Now Available on Heroku

Heroku has long been committed to making PostgreSQL one of the best relational databases in the world. We’re also committed to giving you the ability to try the latest release as soon as it’s available. Today, we’re pleased to announce the public beta of Postgres 9.5 on Heroku.

PostgreSQL 9.5 brings a bevy of super exciting new features with the most prominent being the new UPSERT functionality. UPSERT gives you the expected behavior of an …

Heroku 2015 Retrospective: GitHub, Docker, and Redis

As we start this New Year, we wanted to give you a recap of our 2015, a year filled with a lot of new products and features. We especially want to express our gratitude to everyone who helped us with inspiration, beta testing, and feedback. In case you missed anything, here are the highlights of 2015.

Advancing the Developer Experience

Review Apps

With Review Apps, for every GitHub pull request, Heroku spins up a disposable …

Celebrating Ruby 2.3 Availability with Matz | Heroku

Happy Holidays from Heroku. Congratulations to the ruby-core team on a successful 2.3.0 release, which is now available on Heroku — you can learn more about Ruby on Heroku at heroku.com/ruby. We had the pleasure of speaking with Matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto), the creator of Ruby and Chief Ruby Architect at Heroku, about the release.

What’s New in Ruby 2.3: Interview with Matz

Ruby releases happen every year on Christmas day. Why Christmas?

Ruby …

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