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Postgres Connection Limit Setting Guidance

Many of our customers have recently asked about our connection limit settings on our new Heroku Postgres tiers. Previously we allowed for 500 connections across all production databases, however now there is some variance in the number of connections allowed with only the larger plans offering 500. In individual conversations with customers we’ve detailed the reasoning behind this, and feel its worth sharing this more broadly here now.

For some initial background, our connection limit …

Powering the Internet of Customers with Heroku1

Editor's Note: We are cross-posting this article from the Salesforce Blog. It shows how we are bringing Heroku to a new market and audience – Salesforce customers – using a new product and message. If you are a user of both Heroku and Salesforce and are interested in connecting them.

Apps are an essential part of the Internet of Customers. They are the dashboards to people’s lives. They allow your customers to be part …

Tools for integrating Heroku apps with Salesforce.com

At our core, Heroku’s goal is to make it easier for developers to build great apps. We do this by creating tools which allow developers to focus on writing code, rather than wasting time on managing infrastructure. To coincide with this week’s Dreamforce event, we are launching several tools targeted at developers who write apps on Heroku that integrate with Salesforce.com.

If you aren’t part of the Salesforce world, don’t worry. We remain 100% …

Heroku at Dreamforce – Nov 18 – 21

It’s hard to believe the scale or imagine the energy that is Dreamforce. As part of the Salesforce Platform, a platform with a growing developer community and an amazing range of technologies, Heroku will join the party November 18-21 in San Francisco. This is a big deal for us.

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A few weeks ago we announced the Salesforce $1 Million Hackathon. By the way, that’s $1 million cash, the single largest hackathon prize …

Welcome to Amazon as It Joins the PostgreSQL Community

At Heroku we have long considered PostgreSQL to be a powerful and reliable open-source database for keeping data safe and accessible for serious applications with demanding workflows and use cases.

Over the years we’ve invested heavily in continuing to improve it, whether it’s by employing Postgres major contibutors, employing driver maintainers, funding core development, or being part of language communites such as Ruby and Python to help spread the good news that …

Why We Open Sourced Our OAuth SSO Infrastructure

Today, we’re announcing the release of a key part of our authentication infrastructure – id.heroku.com – under the MIT license. This is the service that accepts passwords on login and manages all things OAuth for our API. The repo is now world-readable at https://github.com/heroku/identity . Pull requests welcome.

While OAuth was originally designed to allow service providers to delegate some access on behalf of a customer to a third party, and we do use it …

Heroku’s Mattt Thompson: Why an iOS Developer Dropped His CS Classes

Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Rikki Endsley.

In this exclusive interview, iOS developer Mattt Thompson opens up about the moment when he realized he’d become a programmer, why he dropped his computer science classes, and what he does AFK.

Had Mattt Thompson followed in his parents’ footsteps, he’d be a musician now instead of a well-known iOS developer working as the Mobile Lead at Heroku. Matthew “Mattt” Thomas Thompson was …

Introducing Heroku Postgres 2.0

Today we're excited to announce an evolution of what it means to be a database as a service provider. Along with new features such as the ability to roll back your database to an arbitrary point in time and high availability, we now provide an entirely new level of operational expertise that's built right in. This new level of service allows you to feel at ease while taking advantage of your database in ways you …

Troubleshooting Down the Logplex Rabbit Hole

Adventures of a Heroku Routing Engineer

My name is Fred and I spend most of my time on Logplex. Since joining Heroku in March 2013, I’ve become the main developer on that product and handle most of the maintenance and support that goes with it. In this post, I’ll explain what the Heroku routing team needed to do to make Logplex more stable, decrease our workload, and keep our mornings quiet and productive.

I’m …

PostgreSQL 9.3 now GA on Heroku Postgres

Several weeks ago we added support for Postgres 9.3 in public beta the day it was released to the community. We've had many customers use it so far and it has proven to be robust and reliable. Early adopters have started to take advantage of the great new features in this version including:

Today we're excited to release Postgres 9.3 in General Availability and setting …

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