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- Last Updated: April 23, 2015
- Rimas Silkaitis
We’re pleased to announce PostgreSQL 9.4 in general availability for Heroku Postgres. After announcing the beta earlier this year, we’ve had many developers provision databases against this new version. Throughout the beta period, developers raved about the new data type along with the performance enhancements to materialized views. This uptake by early adopters demonstrates an interest in everything that the new version of PostgreSQL provides, from features to performance.
New Features and Performance Updates
One of the most notable new features of 9.4 is the JSONB data type . While the…
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- Last Updated: April 04, 2024
- Craig Kerstiens
These days, apps are more composed than built. Long past are the days of spinning up your own Elasticsearch cluster to add search to your application. Instead we borrow from previous projects, and adapt a template as a good foundation. It’s a great improvement – but the process of keeping up to date with the right services, tools, and templates can be a time consuming task at best, and an overwhelming flood of new information at worst.
Today we're excited to announce Heroku Elements, a new marketplace that brings all of the pieces within our Heroku ecosystem together…
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- Last Updated: April 11, 2024
- Craig Kerstiens
At Heroku, most of us love living in the CLI. Of course, we're absolutely dedicated to providing a great developer experience whether it’s in the dashboard or at the terminal, but we also believe a mastery of the command line interface offers great productivity to you as a developer. A well designed CLI coupled with other small sharp Linux tools provide primitives to build powerful productivity. Today we're introducing an exciting new foundation for the Heroku CLI – an entirely rebuilt plug-in architecture.
This new plug-in infrastructure lays the groundwork for extending the power of the CLI, letting…
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- Last Updated: March 12, 2015
- Rimas Silkaitis
Performing a backup is one of those tasks that ensures your application can recover from database or hardware failures should they ever occur. Over four year ago, we recognized this as a best practice and came out with PGBackups, an add-on that reduces the risk and complexity of taking database backups. Today, we’re pleased to announce two big improvements: enhanced reliability, and the ability to schedule backups.
One of the main drivers for the upgrade was the occasional backup stall experienced by users. In some cases, PGBackups would encounter…
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- Last Updated: March 04, 2015
- Joe Kutner
Over the past few years, Netflix has open sourced many of the components that make up its production platform . These include Eureka for service discovery, Hystrix for handling service failure, Ribbon for client side load balancing, and many others.
These projects are powerful, mature, and benefit from Netflix’s many years of experience deploying service-oriented applications in the cloud . Adding credence to this, IBM, Yelp, Hotels.com and many others have adopted these technologies for their own systems. And there’s nothing stopping you from building them into your applications, too.
Well, nothing except that many of the…
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- Last Updated: February 24, 2015
- Margaret Francis
Nine months ago we released Heroku Connect, the bi-directional data synchronization service that enables developers to build Heroku apps that seamlessly interact with Salesforce data. Since then, we’ve seen developers use it to build all types of interesting apps for web and mobile, especially for eCommerce, loyalty, and Internet of Things use cases. We’ve also seen an avalanche of requests from every corner of the Salesforce ecosystem for a simple and free way to try Heroku Connect, and explore new use cases.
Today we are announcing the availability of Heroku Connect Demo Edition, a free version of…
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- Last Updated: February 19, 2015
- Jesper Joergensen
Apps have transformed how we do almost everything. The ubiquity of mobile devices with millions of available apps mean that today, anyone can pull up an app in seconds to check their car engine , turn on the lights at home or ride a scooter across town .
So far, the companies behind these apps have mostly been startups, many of which use Heroku to help them iterate quickly and stay focused on the customer experience instead of wasting time on infrastructure.
Today we’re proud to announce Heroku Enterprise , a new edition of Heroku that helps…
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- Last Updated: February 11, 2015
- Katie Boysen
At Heroku, we love telling the stories of what our customers and partners build on the platform. We love it even more when we get a chance to talk to the development team behind a successful app. So we were excited to sit down with Steve Simpson, CTO of Ethos Solutions—a Heroku partner —to discuss how his team built the award-winning app and intelligence behind the Lynx SmartGrill .
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- Last Updated: February 06, 2015
- Michael Friis
Today we’re announcing the general availability of GitHub integration for Heroku. When enabled, GitHub pushes are deployed immediately to linked Heroku apps. This is a big step forward for people working on apps with source managed on GitHub and deployed to Heroku. The integration has been in beta in Heroku Dashboard for a while, and we’ve seen great adoption and positive feedback.
When a GitHub repo is connected to a Heroku app, you can either manually deploy branches from the repo, or you can configure a particular branch to auto-deploy to the app on every GitHub push. With…
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- Last Updated: May 30, 2024
- Craig Kerstiens
In a world where microservices continue to grow , offering better agility for iterating quickly, many of the tools you use in building applications must adapt. Microservices bring together challenges in a variety of ways for the services you consume – logging and monitoring tools now need a broader perspective than that of a single app, data services may be shared either for reporting or direct access to data.
Heroku has been on the forefront of creating a developer tools add-ons ecosystem that lets you focus on building your app by grabbing the service you need off the…
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