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Sunsetting the Argent Aspen Stack

Heroku's Aspen stack is the product that launched our company and inspired a new class of cloud services. After much deliberation and careful thought, we have decided to sunset the Aspen stack by Thursday, November 22nd . We ask application owners still using Aspen to migrate to Cedar .

Since Aspen's launch over four years ago, Rails has seen the introduction of Bundler for dependency management, the asset pipeline, and a major framework re-write. Heroku has also grown, and with the introduction of the Cedar stack, we have moved beyond our humble origins and have become a true…

Sunsetting and Deprecation at Heroku

Software erosion is what happens to your app without your knowledge or consent: it was working at one point, and then doesn't work anymore. When this happens you have to invest energy diagnosing and resolving the problem. Over a year ago Heroku's CTO, Adam Wiggins, first wrote about erosion-resistance on Heroku. Part of erosion-resistance is communication, and knowing what to expect moving into the future. This post will clarify what we mean by erosion-resistance, and help you understand what to expect when one of our features is deprecated or is sunset.

Erosion Resistance

Erosion-resistance means…

Announcing Heroku Enterprise for Java

A year ago we we launched Java support with the ability to deploy Maven based Java applications using Heroku’s familiar git based workflow. Many customers, like Banjo, have since taken advantage of the new capabilities and built a wide variety of Java applications on the platform.

With the introduction of Java support, we are seeing growing interest from larger enterprises who are often heavy Java users and who are looking for a platform like Heroku to increase the speed of application delivery.

Today, we are announcing Heroku Enterprise for Java, a new product that makes it simpler…

Presenting the Heroku Dashboard

Here at Heroku, we focus our energy on developer experience and productivity. Historically, this has revolved around command-line tools like the Heroku Toolbelt and the Heroku CLI . As a polyglot platform, we have developers that come from all backgrounds — some that prefer command-line workflows and others that prefer web interface. Most use a bit of both.

Today, we're introducing a new first-class interface to our platform: the Heroku Dashboard .

App Awareness and Discoverability

The new Heroku Dashboard features a fresh look and feel, optimized for readability and workflow efficiency.

The…

Introducing the Heroku Partner Directory

In 2007, Los Angeles web development shop Bitscribe loved the productivity gains they found by developing using agile methodologies. What they didn’t like was the labor-intensive process necessary to deploy applications. Bitscribe principals James, Adam, and Orion decided to build a company just to solve this problem. They called it "Heroku", a combination of the words "hero" and "haiku".

Hundreds of development shops from small shops like Bitscribe to large GSIs like Accenture now rely on Heroku so they can focus on building apps instead of deploying and running them. Many of these shops…

Design of the Status Site

A couple months ago, we launched a completely redesigned Heroku status site . Since design is important to us and, we think, to many of you, we're taking a break from our usual blog posts to dig into the Heroku approach to visual product design.

Read on to experience the twists and turns on the way to the final design and let us know in the comments if you want to see more posts like this.

The Premise

For platform providers, a status site is a way to build trust…

Announcing Support for 16 new Postgres Extensions

Databases are the well known solution for storing data for your application. However they sometimes lack functionality required by application developers such as data encryption or cross database reporting. As a result developers are forced to write the needed functionality at their application layer. Postgres 9.1, which already has an extensive collection of data types and functions, took the first step towards mitigating this by creating an extension system which allows the database’s functionality to be expanded.

Today we are releasing support for 16 new Postgres extensions which add exciting new functionality including the ability to query from…

New Heroku Postgres Plans GA

In past months we've released the public beta of our dev, basic , crane and kappa plans. We've received positive feedback from everyone using the new database plans.

Based on this strong positive response and adoption during the beta, we're officially moving these plans to general availability starting today.

In conjunction with the GA of our starter tier , we're deprecating our shared database plans. The new dev and basic plans offer many improvements including Postgres 9.1 with schemaless SQL, data clips , direct psql access, and a web management interface .

Beginning August 8, 2012,…

Release of new database plans on August 1st

We are happy to announce that our new line-up of database plans are being released on August 1st. The dev, basic, crane, and kappa plans make many of the most exciting features of our fully-managed database service available to a wider audience. They are now ready for all users.

We will also begin billing for these plans as of August 1st. If you have been beta testing one of these databases and do not wish to incur charges for it going forward, please remove it immediately via the web interface or the command line:

heroku addons:remove HEROKU_POSTGRESQL_COLOR –app…

Release of new plans on August 1st

We are happy to announce that our new line-up of database plans are being released on August 1st. The dev, basic, crane, and kappa plans make many of the most exciting features of our fully-managed database service available to a wider audience. They are now ready for all users.

We will also begin billing for these plans as of August 1st. If you have been beta testing one of these databases and do not wish to incur charges for it going forward, please remove it immediately via the web interface or the command line:

heroku addons:remove HEROKU_POSTGRESQL_COLOR –app…

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