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SSO for Heroku now in Public Beta

We're pleased to announce the beta of SSO for Heroku. With this beta, Heroku now supports the current and most widely supported SSO standard known as SAML 2.0, and has partnered with leading identity providers (IdPs) for easy set-up. Customers can use their existing identity provider like Salesforce Identity, Okta, PingOne, Microsoft Active Directory, and PingFederate for their employees' single sign-on to Heroku Enterprise.

SSO is expected to be generally available in …

50% and Counting: PHP 7 Takes Off

A year and half ago, we launched support for PHP on Heroku, built from the ground up with modern features designed to give developers a more elegant and productive experience on the platform. Last week, we made PHP 7 available on top of a new, reworked version of our PHP support, and our users are adopting PHP 7’s exciting new features and stellar performance improvements quickly—we’re already seeing PHP 7 being used in the …

10 Habits of a Happy Node Hacker (2016)

At the tail end of 2015, JavaScript developers have a glut of tools at our disposal. The last time we looked into this, the modern JS landscape was just emerging. Today, it's easy to get lost in our huge ecosystem, so successful teams follow guidelines to make the most of their time and keep their projects healthy.

Here are ten habits for happy Node.js hackers as we enter 2016. They're specifically for app developers, …

Announcing Heroku + Parse: Flexible Platform Meets Feature-Rich SDKs

Most modern mobile apps depend heavily on the app’s back-end. That’s because many of the expectations users have for mobile apps today — for the application to work regardless of network connectivity, to notify them when relevant content changes, to have integrations with the social networks they use, for appropriate levels of security, and a hundred other things — are reliant on the app’s back-end services.

The most common pattern for mobile back-ends we see …

Introducing Heroku Private Spaces: Private PaaS, delivered as-a-Service

As the world becomes more cloud-centric, and more of our apps and business depend on its capabilities, the trust, control and management of cloud services is more important than ever. Since the first days of Heroku — and Platform-as-a-Service in general — many companies have struggled to balance the impact and success of the cloud with the control offered by traditional software and on-premise infrastructure. Too often that balance tips back towards software, with companies …

Integrated security with Heroku Identity Federation

Apps are at the heart of modern businesses, and are important assets that need a secure platform geared for compliance and security. We launched Heroku Enterprise earlier this year with this in mind and today we are excited to announce the beta of Heroku Identity Federation for Heroku Enterprise customers. This feature unifies the login experience across Salesforce's new App Cloud that we announced today.

As customers like Forever Living, TV4 and Macy’s run more …

Customer Centered E-Commerce: Salesforce + Heroku

Today we are releasing a reference architecture and sample app for running e-commerce apps on Heroku, with a simple pattern for integrating customer, order and product data with Salesforce via Heroku Connect. The key: Any transaction recorded in Heroku Postgres can be seamlessly integrated with Salesforce via Heroku Connect.

Salesforce for E-Commerce

Many Salesforce customers are looking to extend their Salesforce deployments with e-commerce on Heroku. Whether running a single storefront, launching new concepts …

Introducing Heroku Flow: Pipelines, Review Apps, and GitHub Sync for Continuous Delivery

Editor's Note: Heroku Pipelines is now Generally Available. Learn more about Continuous Delivery at Heroku.

At Heroku we're building a solid platform for delivering apps in a deliberate, reliable manner. We know that reasoning about the state and progress of code changes, testing and verifying what's deployed, and tracking what works can all be difficult — especially for non-engineering team members.

So we’re proud to introduce Heroku Flow, a new and flexible way to …

Introducing Improved Performance Dynos

Last year, we launched the original Performance dyno, designed to support the largest apps running at-scale with more consistent service and faster response times. Today, with the goal of continuing to support our fast growing customers with more flexibility to choose the type of dynos best for their applications, we are excited to announce improvements to our performance dyno lineup:

  • Performance-L — an improved and more powerful version of the existing Performance dyno, renamed the
    • …

Docker support updates: Local data stores and more languages

Today we're releasing some exciting improvements to the Heroku beta Docker support announced 3 months ago: Automatic configuration of local containers running data stores (like Postgres, Redis and MongoDB) and support for many more languages including images for Node.js, Ruby, Go, Java, Scala, Clojure and Gradle. This helps you use local containers to run, test and deploy Heroku apps that have complex service dependencies with minimal setup and configuration.

Heroku Docker support brings to …

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