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We’re excited to announce that WebSocket functionality is now available on Heroku in public beta. We can’t wait to see the powerful and creative real-time apps you’ll build. In this post, we show how to get up and running with WebSockets and demonstrate the functionality with two sample apps you can get on GitHub. Editor’s Note: WebSockets support is now Generally Available. The heroku labs:enable websockets command is no longer required for the example app below. Getting Started For full documentation of WebSocket support on Heroku, visit the Dev Center. WebSocket functionality is available as part of Heroku Labs. First…

Heroku is now using Extended Validation SSL Certificates for most of our Heroku-owned applications. This allows you to tell at a glance if an URL belongs to Heroku itself, or is merely hosted on us. Applications in our legacy “Bamboo” stack are hosted under the heroku.com DNS domain, which has historically made it difficult for people to differentiate between Heroku-owned apps (e.g., id.heroku.com, dashboard.heroku.com) and customer applications. We believe the extra UI indication will prove useful in solving this problem. -Tom Maher Heroku Security Team

Heroku Postgres is Heroku’s database-as-a-service product. With Heroku Postgres, you can easily provision and scale a Postgres database for your Heroku application, or as a stand-alone service. Recently, we’ve blogged about PostgreSQL 9.3 on Heroku and how you can use Heroku Postgres dataclips to build awesome business dashboards with your data. In this post, we talk about how Heroku Postgres delivers continuous protection for your business data using WAL-E, an open source application for archiving PostgreSQL WAL (Write Ahead Log) files quickly, continuously and with a low operational burden. About Continuous Protection In order to protect customer data and be…

Editor's note: This is a guest post from Michael Buckbee of Meta/SpaceGlasses. SpaceGlasses are augmented reality glasses that actually work. They let people control systems with a gesture, see virtual objects on top of the real world and create technology that would make Tony Stark proud. Prior to joining Meta, I had developed and managed a number of high traffic Rails sites. I was brought on to help move the company’s website from a single static launch page to being an e-commerce platform and to help lay the groundwork for the company’s app store. We chose to build on top…

Editor's note: This is a guest post from Mathias Meyer of Travis CI. Travis CI is a continuous integration and deployment platform. It started out as a project to offer a free platform for the open source community to run their tests and builds on. Over the past two years, Travis CI has grown, a lot. What started out with a single server running just a few hundred tests a day turned into a platform used by thousands of open source projects and hundreds of companies for their public and private projects. Travis CI is currently serving more than 62,000…

The Heroku Postgres team is hitting the road in coming months and we’d love to connect with you. If you’d like to meet up with us at any of the events below, drop us a line or Tweet us @HerokuPostgres. The first opportunity to connect with us is in September at Postgres Open. If you’ve already got your tickets for Postgres Open, join us for drinks and/or pizza at Clark Ale House on Tuesday, September 17, and make sure to check out talks by Craig Kerstiens and Peter Geoghegan. If you don’t already have your ticket for Postgres Open, but…

Starting today, Heroku would like to publicly thank all the independent security researchers who have practiced responsible disclosure and helped us remediate issues. The Heroku Security Researcher Hall of Fame lists these researchers, along with the date of their initial report. If you've found a new security issue on our platform, we'd love to hear from you. Our intent is for this list to be comprehensive, going back to our beginning. If you’ve reported a vulnerability to us in the past, and you’re either not listed or you’d like your listing changed (e.g., typos, change a link) or removed entirely,…

At Heroku, we’ve had the privilege of running and managing millions of amazing apps built by our users. Over a year ago, Heroku co-founder Adam Wiggins published the Twelve-Factor App, based directly on these experiences. It distills best practices for building modern cloud applications into a 12-factor methodology specifically designed to maximize developer productivity and application maintainability. Twelve Factor apps are built for agility and rapid deployment, enabling continuous delivery and reducing the time and cost for new developers to join a project. At the same time, they are architected to exploit the principles of modern cloud platforms while permitting…