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Heroku Fork and the heroku sharing command have been deprecated. For more information on releases and rollbacks, make sure to check out the Dev Center.

Heroku tools let you create robust, healthy workflows for your apps, from development to production to ongoing delivery. Add other developers to your app with heroku sharing, create homogeneous staging and production apps with heroku fork, and quickly deploy directly from staging to production with pipelines.

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In May, we launched the beta Heroku Platform API – making it possible to automate, extend and combine the Heroku platform with other services in a programmatic, self-service way. As of today, OAuth 2.0 support for the Platform API is available in public beta.

With OAuth support, developers building integrations and services that use the Heroku API can provide a much better experience to their users. Instead of requesting full access to user accounts, access …

Humans, in their quest for knowledge, have always wanted to know how things work.

We sit in our bedrooms, kitchens and garages pulling things apart with eager hands, examining the bits with a glimmer in our eye as our fingers turn them around and around, wondering what they do, how they do what they do–hoping that everything still works without that pretty residual part that no longer seems to fit.

Introducing How Heroku Works

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Logs tell the story of your app – a continuous, living stream of events, changes and behaviors. Logs let you rapidly identify and act on critical events, debug issues in your code, and analyze trends to make better decisions over time.

But log management is increasingly complex. As apps scale across distributed infrastructure, many independent processes must be tracked and made sense of. Numerous components and backing services each produce their own log streams. Multiple …

On June 27th, our customer advocate team presented the first webcast in a two-part series on running production apps on Heroku. In case you missed it, the recording and slides are below. This first session is designed for an audience familiar with Heroku basics and covers:

• Production app setup and expectations
• App production checklist
• Using Unicorn to increase app performance
• Using 2X dynos to increase app performance
• How to configure timeouts to ensure app stability
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Editor's Note: The version of Pipelines described in this blog post has been deprecated and replaced by a new non-labs implementation. Features added through Heroku Labs are experimental and may change or be removed without notice.

heroku fork lets you create unique, running instances of existing applications in a single command, making it fast and simple to set up homogenous development, staging and production environments. But have you ever wished you could deploy …

Heroku Add-ons are services exposed through the Heroku platform. They are managed by experts, provisioned and scaled in a single command, and consumed by your application as loosely coupled components. This post provides an overview of Add-ons for logging, persistence, caching and monitoring in production apps.

Logging

Logs provide the foundation for trend analysis, error inspection, performance tuning and other processes critical for running production apps. Heroku routes and collates real-time logs …

Heroku Fork has been deprecated. See the GitHub repo for the Fork CLI plugin for details.

An application is more than source code – it’s executables, generated assets, runtime environments, dependencies, configuration, running processes, backing services and more. What if you could fork your entire app, not just your code?

heroku fork lets you create unique, running instances of existing applications right from the command line. These instances are live and available on Heroku immediately …

Earlier this month, we quietly rolled out a new design for our monthly invoices. It’s a breath of fresh air compared to the previous iteration, and we thought it would be interesting to share what goes into a design like this.

At Heroku, billing is complex. Dyno hours are calculated to the second. Add-ons are calculated based on each provider’s pricing plan, which can be monthly or by usage depending on the add-on. There are …

When talking to Heroku users, a question that frequently comes up is “when do my apps go to sleep, and why?”. Though the behavior is documented in Dev Center, we’d like to provide more immediate visibility into the state of your apps at any given moment.

When Do Apps Sleep?

When an app on Heroku has an Eco web dyno, and that dyno receives no web traffic in a 30-minute period, it sleeps. …