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Developers are worthy of great experiences and at Heroku we aim to help improve this. Whether its making it easier to prepare your application for production on Heroku, not having to worry about security updates in your database , or getting notified of the latest rails vulnerability we want to make the world better for developers. This extends beyond the Heroku platform as well. For instance, our Ruby Task Force contributes back to projects like Ruby on Rails , Bundler , Code Triage , and Rails Girls .

Likewise, we aim to do everything we can to make…

Entering production is a key transition in your app’s lifecycle; it signals that your app will be delivering value to end users. You are no longer optimizing for testing—you are optimizing for performance and reliability, and there are new factors to consider at this stage.

Today we’re announcing Production Check , an enhancement to the Heroku Dashboard that helps ensure that your app is ready to go to production. Production Check tests your app’s configuration against a set of optional—but highly recommended—criteria. It makes it easy to ensure that your app’s configuration lends itself to maximum…

Today we’re happy to announce Heroku’s Europe region, available in public beta. With more than 3 million apps running on our platform from developers all over the globe, it's not surprising that we've had high demand for Heroku in more regions of the world. After collaborating closely with customers during private beta, we're now ready to offer Heroku services in Europe to all customers as part of a public beta. The Europe region runs Heroku applications from datacenters located in Europe, offering improved performance for users in that region.

One Heroku, Two Continents

The Europe…

HTTP and its secure variant, HTTPS, are the protocols used by every web
client to talk to web applications. A key part of the protocol is the HTTP
method . Traditionally, web applications used a very limited set of HTTP
methods. It is common for application servers, proxies and routers (such as the
Heroku HTTP router) to prevent unknown methods from being used. This unnecessary
constraint of the Heroku HTTP router has increasingly become a limitation to
developers building modern web applications.

In the past, if you tried to use an unsupported HTTP method in your Heroku
application, clients would receive a 405 METHOD_NOT_ALLOWED…

There has never been a better time to be a programmer. Every day more and more gadgets get connected or over-clocked . Programming is so prevalent that it often goes unnoticed in our daily lives. Whether we're scripting out social presence with IFTTT , or doing taxes with Excel, automation and programming has become an inescapable part of the modern world.

Heroku believes that to invest in our future, we must invest in programming literacy . While we're waiting for recursion to be a staple in our children’s classrooms, we can work on continuing and higher education…

A dyno , the unit of computing power on Heroku, is a lightweight container running a single user-specified command. Today we’re announcing a dyno with twice the capacity: 2X dynos.

Existing dynos are now called 1X dynos. They come with 512MB of memory and 1x CPU share. They cost $0.05/hr. 2X dynos are exactly what their name implies: 1GB of memory and twice the CPU share for $0.10/hr. To support the growth of current and future apps on the platform, you can now control your dyno resources on two axes: size and quantity.

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Hi. I'm Adam Wiggins, cofounder and CTO of Heroku.

Heroku has been my life’s work. Millions of apps depend on us, and I take that responsibility very personally.

Recently, Heroku has faced criticism from the hacker community about how our HTTP router works, and about web performance on the platform in general. I’ve read all the public discussions, and have spent a lot of time over the past month talking with our customers about this subject.

The concerns I've heard from you span past, present, and future.

The past: some customers have hit serious problems…