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Editor's note: This is a guest post from Rikki Endsley. Rikki Endsley is a technology journalist and the USENIX Association's community manager. In the past, she worked as the associate publisher of Linux Pro Magazine, ADMIN, and Ubuntu User, and as the managing editor of Sys Admin magazine. Find her online at rikkiendsley.com and @rikkiends on Twitter.

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Last week we released a new version of our node buildpack that features dependency caching, faster downloads of the node binary, and support for any recent version of node. This new build process is now the default for all node apps on Heroku, so keep deploying your apps as you normally would and you should start to notice the speed improvements.

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The new buildpack makes use of a build cache to store the …

There have been thousands of reported security vulnerabilities in 2013 alone, often with language that leaves it unclear if you’re affected. Heroku’s job is to ensure you can focus on building your functionality, as part of that we take responsibility for the security of your app as much as we’re able. On Friday, November 22nd a security vulnerability was disclosed in Ruby (MRI): CVE-2013-4164 . Our team moved quickly to identify the risk to anyone …

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post from Jonathan Cipriano, creative developer based in San Francisco currently working as a Creative Research & Development Manager at AKQA.

A few weeks back, the Make-a-Wish Foundation made a 5-year old cancer survivor named Miles dream come true by helping him play out a Batman-style adventure in San Francisco. The city was morphed into Gotham for a day with the help of 12,000 volunteers. A …

Editor's note: This is a guest post from Ken Fromm and Paddy Foran at Iron.io. Iron.io's services are designed for building distributed cloud applications quickly and operating at scale.

Platform as a Service has transformed the use of cloud infrastructure and drastically increased cloud adoption for common types of applications, but apps are becoming more complex. There are more interfaces, greater expectations on response times, increasing connections to other systems, and lots more processing …

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 …

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% …

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 …