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Heroku provides an opinionated platform in order to help you build better applications. We give you a default version of Ruby to get you started, and give you a way to declare your version for total control. In the past creating an application would give you 1.9.2, starting today the default is 2.0.0.

Ruby 2.0.0 is fast, stable, and works out of the box with Rails 4. Applications running on 2.0.0 will have a longer …

Change is a constant. At Heroku, we often deliver important information to users about changes and events on the platform, their apps and their accounts. We use a variety of media to keep users informed about these changes, including email, Twitter, the changelog and the blog.

To help provide more direct and relevant information, we've added a new feature to Dashboard called Notification Center. We'll be using the Notification Center to keep you …

Until now, Heroku Status has been focused primarily on present platform health – providing current status, uptime for the current month, and recent incident history. Today we're announcing an addition to our status site: a dedicated page to view historical uptime. The new uptime page provides a longer-term perspective on Heroku uptime and incidents – perspective that is critical for transparency and continued trust in the Heroku platform.

The new uptime page covers both …

Whether you’re building your initial prototype or running a large scale profitable business, there will be times where you will have questions about building, maintaining, or troubleshooting your application. One of our goals is to help make your business successful by empowering you to build quality software with best practices, clear documentation on a stable erosion-resistant platform. When in doubt, there are several channels here at Heroku available to help you get the support you …

The new Heroku platform API is out in public beta. Come join our API team for an API Hack-a-thon on June 20th at Heavybit Industries (9th and Folsom) for an in-depth look. Doors open at 6:00p.

This hack-a-thon is not a competition, but an in-depth look at the beta release – a chance for you to ask questions and provide feedback to the Heroku API team.

Heroku’s API lead, Wesley Beary, will start …

Each year, more than 5,000 iOS and Mac developers from over 50 different countries gather at Moscone Center West for Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference, or WWDC. It's the one week developers get to learn about all of the shiny new devices and APIs that they'll use to make their next great apps.

Heroku is excited to be sponsoring and organizing a great lineup of events next week:

AltWWDC Labs

For anyone who didn't get …

Thousands of Heroku customers have already updated their apps to utilize 2X dynos since they entered public beta on April 5. By providing twice the memory and CPU share, 2X dynos help to improve app performance and efficiency.

2X Dynos enter General Availability today. Starting tomorrow, June 1, 2013, 2X dynos will be billed at the full $0.10 per hour rate.

Heroku customers have used 2X dynos to solve a number of problems:

1. Concurrency …

Today, we are excited to release our new platform API into public beta, turning Heroku into an extensible platform for building new and exciting services. Our platform API derives from the same command-and-control API we use internally, giving entrepreneurs and innovators unprecedented power to integrate and extend our platform. Some of the uses we’ve imagined include:

• Building mobile apps that control Heroku from smartphones and tablets;
• Combining Heroku with other services and integrating with developer
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