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Presenting the New Add-ons Site

Heroku Add-ons make it easy for developers to extend their applications with new features and functionality. The Add-on Provider Program has enabled cloud service providers with key business tools, including billing, single sign-on, and an integrated end-user support experience. Since the launch of the Heroku Add-ons site over two years ago, the marketplace has grown to nearly 100 add-ons. As the add-ons ecosystem has grown, we've learned a lot about how cloud service providers structure their businesses and how users interact with them.

Today we're happy to announce the launch of the updated Heroku Add-ons site .

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Hacking Buildpacks

Buildpacks are an extremely powerful tool for specifying the ecosystem of tools and dependencies packaged with your Heroku application and controlling the way the application is built from code to a deployed app.

In the post announcing the release of buildpacks we illustrated this point, explaining how buildpacks provide the mechanism by which Heroku supports a variety of languages and frameworks, not just Ruby and Rails. We also briefly covered some of the end-user customizations that can be achieved with custom buildpacks, such as adding binary support and modifying the build process.

Today we'll examine…

Fork Your Application’s Data (Not Just Your Code)

Git and Github revolutionized software development by letting you fork your source repository with a single click. Wouldn't it be great to be able to do the same thing with your database?

In the same way you can fork your code you can now fork your data. Fork changes the way you can work with your data, making it a snap to provision a clone of your production database. The technology is simple, safe, and robust, and thanks to Heroku Postgres' cloud architecture, places no load on your primary database. Today, we’re announcing the release of this functionality…

Hacking mruby onto Heroku

If you're in the Ruby world, you've likely heard about mruby , Matz's latest experimental Ruby implementation. What I bet you didn't know is that you can run mruby on Heroku right now. As a matter of fact you can run just anything on Heroku, as long as it can compile it into a binary on a Linux box.

If you're new to mruby, or to compiling binaries take a look at my last article Try mruby Today . I cover getting mruby up and running on your local machine. If you are already up to speed then…

Waza 2013

Waza Returns to San Francisco in February 2013

Heroku's developer event, Waza, returns on Thursday, February 28th, 2013 to the Concourse in San Francisco.

What is Waza?

Waza (技) is the Japanese word for art and technique. At Heroku, we believe that software development is a craft. Building modern technologies that engage and inspire is an art, with techniques shared, passed on, and honed in the process of creation.

Waza is an event where developers can find inspiration – about what’s happening in technology, what’s happening at Heroku, how people…

Ruby 2.0 Preview Available on Heroku

When Heroku first launched you could only use one version of Ruby: 1.8.6. As the Ruby implementation matured and improved, so did Heroku. We recently announced the ability to specify your ruby version on Heroku , and we are happy to announce the first preview-build of Ruby available: starting today you can use Ruby 2.0 preview1 on Heroku.

Ruby 2.0

The Ruby core team has been hard at work on Ruby 2.0, which has a host of new features and boasts performance improvements. You can get a list of the major new features on the…

Heroku Postgres Releases Follow into GA

Today Heroku Postgres is releasing the ability to Follow your database General Availability: this lets you easily create multiple read-only asynchronous replicas of your database, known as followers.

Followers enable some great use cases:

Easy read traffic scaling Fast upgrades Higher availability

Read more about this exciting feature on the Heroku Blog .

Announcing Follow

Today we’re releasing the ability to follow your Heroku Postgres Database into General Availability: this lets you easily create multiple read-only asynchronous replicas of your database, known as followers.

After an extended beta period during which over 3,000 followers were created, many of which help power core Heroku systems, we’re excited to make the ability to safely and easily scale out access to your data available to all Heroku Postgres users.

Followers enable some great use cases:

Easy read traffic scaling Fast upgrades Higher availability

One use case that has historically been challenging in database…

Heroku Office Hours, Wed 10/17 at 3pm PDT

This Wednesday 10/17 from 3-5pm we will be holding office hours for customers and users in our San Francisco office.

This is an opportunity for you to come meet us and ask questions about developing your apps on Heroku. It is an opportunity for us to learn more about you and your needs.

Heroku engineers, product managers, and designers will be available to chat with you about your code, application, business, or whatever else you want. Maybe you're a new user, and have some getting started questions. Perhaps you've been using Heroku for…

Upgrading to the Heroku Toolbelt

Heroku Toolbelt

The original version of the Heroku command-line tool was available as a Ruby gem. This made it easy to install on all platforms with just one command: gem install heroku. While we love this simplicity, it depends on a system install of Rubygems. To get this experience on widely varying development environments, we created the Heroku Toolbelt , a one-click installer for every major platform.

Going forward we will be sunsetting support for the heroku gem in favor of the Toolbelt. If you're already using the Toolbelt, you're fine to stop…

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