News

Today we’re announcing the general availability of the new PHP support on Heroku. The key features, in case you missed them when we outlined them in the beta announcement, include: New modern runtimes in HipHop VM Packaging and first class frameworks Heroku XL support for large scale enterprise apps We’re very happy to make this generally available for all users. Since our public beta weeks ago we’ve seen a variety of users trying many of these modern frameworks such as Laravel and Symfony, as well as work towards improving the development experience by running our own buildpack locally. In addition…

Today, we are announcing an important addition to the Heroku Platform API: The /apps/:app/builds endpoint. This endpoint exposes the Heroku slug compilation process as a simple API primitive. You can use the endpoint to turn any publicly hosted source-tarball into a slug running on a Heroku app in seconds. Here’s output from a Go program that invokes the new endpoint: $ ./build -app limitless-fjord-5604 -archive https://github.com/heroku/node-js-sample/archive/master.tar.gz ……… —–> Node.js app detected —–> Requested node range: 0.10.x —–> Resolved node version: 0.10.28 —–> Downloading and installing node … $ curl http://limitless-fjord-5604.herokuapp.com/ Hello World! Here’s what is going on: an app name…

Today we’re open sourcing the toolchain Heroku uses to design, document, and consume our HTTP APIs. We hope this shows how Heroku thinks about APIs and gives you new tools to create your own. This toolchain includes: An HTTP API design guide, describing how we structure both internal and public-facing APIs and document them using the JSON Schema standard. A tool for working with JSON schemas and using them to generate API documentation. Ruby and Go client code generators for APIs with JSON schemas. Here’s some more information about these things, how we use them at Heroku, and an explanation…

Today, we’re happy to announce General Availability of the Heroku Platform API. Heroku is a platform built by developers, for developers. As developers, we understand the utility of APIs and the power APIs give to speed up and script error-prone manual processes or to combine other services with Heroku into new and exciting products. With the Platform API, you now have a fully documented and supported way to instrument and automate Heroku. Designing and implementing this API has been an important process for Heroku internally: It has forced us rethink how different platform components are factored and how they should…

Today we are announcing the general availability of Salesforce1 Heroku Connect. This new Heroku product is a synchronization service, conceptually similar to Dropbox or iCloud, that synchronizes data between a Salesforce deployment and a Heroku Postgres database. By bringing together the data layers of the Force.com and Heroku platforms–and thus allowing the same data to be seamlessly reflected in each cloud’s native database–you can use the capabilities of each platform together in a single application, without having to translate or otherwise integrate between them. Heroku + Force.com Heroku and Force.com are cloud platform ‘cousins’, each with its own semantics and…

Today, we’re excited to announce public beta of two-factor authentication for Heroku accounts. With two-factor auth enabled, an authentication code is required whenever you log in. The code is delivered using an app on your smartphone, and access to your phone becomes a required factor (in addition to your password) to access Heroku. An attacker that has somehow discovered your password will not be able to log in using just your password. Enabling two-factor auth The easiest way to enable two-factor auth is using Dashboard. Go to your account page, click the “Enable two-factor authentication” button and follow the on-screen…