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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 …

$1 Million Hack – $99 pass FREE for a limited time

As we previously announced, salesforce.com is hosting a $1 Million Hackathon for the most awesome mobile app built using Salesforce Platform, which includes Heroku. It's taking place now and culminates at Dreamforce in San Francisco.

For a limited time we are making it FREE ($99 value) to participate in the Salesforce $1 Million Hackathon. Sign up for the Hacker Pass and you will get access to the Hackathon plus all the great content and …

Compete to win the Salesforce $1 Million Hackathon

How would you like to win $1 million in a hackathon? Seriously.

As you know, Heroku is part of the Salesforce Platform. A platform with a growing developer community and broad range of technologies that developers have used to create amazing solutions. So at Salesforce, we thought we’d cook up a little surprise. OK, a huge surprise: the world’s first hackathon with a single $1 million prize.

It’s on. Come to Dreamforce. Build a …

How Branch Uses Heroku

Editor's Note: This is a guest post from Hursh Agrawal, co-founder of Branch.

At Branch, we’ve been through several feature launches on Branch and, more recently, several more on our new site, Potluck. Although it becomes easier, building high-quality, high-traffic web applications still isn’t easy. Here are a few things we’ve learned about hosting our apps on Heroku that have helped keep our latency down and our confidence up.

Building on Heroku

One thing …

Monitoring your Heroku Postgres Database

There are two axes of database monitoring. One axis is immediate insight. You can see what is happening right now, getting just-in-time visibility to solve problems and observe production behavior as it happens. The other axis is historical monitoring. This provides long-term persistence and reporting on the most important metrics over time, helping you make better decisions and understand trends.

With Heroku Postgres, you can get immediate insight with the pg-extras CLI plugin. Furthermore, we …

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