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Hacking Hack, the Programming Language, on Heroku

Anytime a new language comes out it’s fun to immediately download it and give it a try. Yesterday Facebook announced Hack, a programming language they developed for HHVM which interoperates seamlessly with PHP. Facebook itself is already running on Hack, and it looks to deliver some exciting improvements from its PHP influence, we thought we’d make it a bit easier for you to run your own apps on Hack by working with …

10 Habits of a Happy Node Hacker

This post is from 2014 – check out the update!

For most of the nearly twenty years since its inception, JavaScript lacked many of the niceties that made other programming languages like Python and Ruby so attractive: command-line interfaces, a REPL, a package manager, and an organized open-source community. Thanks in part to Node.js and npm, today's JavaScript landscape is dramatically improved. Web developers wield powerful new tools, and are limited only by their imagination.

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SxSW Interactive Starts Today: Hope to See You There!

SxSW Interactive starts today. The crowds have arrived, the sessions have begun, and the ExactTarget Orange Oasis is open. Please stop by and say hello at the Heroku purple pavilion there, or schedule a private meeting or demo.

Check out the SXSW Fitbit Leaderboard from ExactTarget while you are here. This Heroku app logs and tracks your steps at SxSW. You can join the Leaderboard by logging into Fitbit, and sending a mail to …

HTTP Request IDs improve visibility across the application stack

Visibility into your application is necessary to properly analyze and troubleshoot issues as they arise. One of the key factors to good visibility is using logs as event streams and treating them as the canonical source of what happened on an app.

The challenge with using logs is to correlate events across the stack consisting of your application's code and Heroku's platform components. Today, we are releasing new functionality that makes this simple. By using …

Meet the Heroku Team at SxSW Interactive in Austin, TX

Every year tens of thousands of people descend on Austin, TX for the SxSW Conference to learn about the latest in digital technologies. This year Heroku is descending as well and we want to see you there.

Orange Oasis

Fri., March 7th and Sat., March 8th Brass House – 115 San Jacinto Blvd (@ 2nd St)

Heroku will be a part of ExactTarget’s Orange Oasis at Brass House. Close to the convention center, but out …

Git Push Heroku Master: Now 40% Faster

Flow is an important part of software development. The ability to achieve flow during daily work makes software development a uniquely enjoyable profession. Interruptions in your code/test loop make this state harder to achieve. Whether you are running unit tests locally, launching a local webserver, or deploying to Heroku there's always some waiting and some interruption. Every second saved helps you stay in your flow.

We’ve been working on reducing the time it takes to …

Heroku XL: Focusing on Large Scale Apps

Having a web or mobile app become hugely popular is one of those “good problems” to have. But success is still its own challenge – making any architecture work at high volume can often create a unique kind of complexity. And as the Internet grows, and apps become more prevalent, its an increasingly common requirement.

The largest app on Heroku routinely exceeds 10,000 requests / second, and two of the top 50 sites on the …

Auto-generating a Go API client for Heroku

Editor's note: This is a cross post from Blake Gentry, an engineer at Heroku.

This is a post about the recently announced Heroku Platform API JSON Schema and how I used that schema to write an auto-generated Go client for the API.

Heroku's API team has spent a large part of the past year designing a new version of the platform API. While this is the 3rd incarnation of the API, neither of the …

JSON Schema for the Heroku Platform API

Today we’re making an important piece of Platform API tooling available: A machine-readable JSON schema that describes what resources are available via the API, what their URLs are, how they are represented and what operations they support. The schema opens up many interesting use cases, both for users and for us at Heroku working on improving and extending the API. A few examples are:

Programmatically release code to Heroku

Currently in beta, the Heroku Platform API lets developers automate, extend and combine the Heroku platform with other services in a programmatic, self-service way. Today we are setting the capstone into the API by adding slug and release endpoints to the API beta.

These API endpoints are special. They expose a very core part of what Heroku does best: Quickly and safely releasing new versions of an app onto the Heroku platform.

Using the new …

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