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Heroku Cloud Native Buildpacks: Bringing Heroku Magic to Container Images

At Heroku, we believe the best choices are the ones you don't have to make. That’s why we’re thrilled to announce the preview release of Heroku Cloud Native Buildpacks. Our Cloud Native Buildpack (CNB) offering brings the beloved Heroku language and framework experience to your local machine and beyond. Whether you're coding in Ruby, Node.js, Python, PHP, Go, Java, or Scala, Heroku’s set of opinionated CNBs streamline the process of building and managing containerized applications as OCI-compliant images. Developed and maintained by our language experts, these buildpacks ensure a native experience for each supported language ecosystem and frees you up…

2023: Delivering Innovation and Customer Success

2024 is going to be an exciting year at Heroku. Before we jump into 2024, let’s take a look back at 2023 and show you how we’re empowering developers to deliver amazing apps. First of all, we want to take a moment to thank you, our customers, partners, employees, and extended communities. Your passion for Heroku and the developer community makes our work possible. Customer Success Our teams continued to grow to meet the demands of our many existing and new customers in 2023. Customers who do things like make safer cars, bring us live music, deliver last-minute items to…

TrailblazerDX 2024: More Heroku Experiences

The countdown has begun for Salesforce's annual developer conference, TrailblazerDX, set to take place on March 6-7, 2024, in San Francisco and streaming live on Salesforce+. This year's conference has been touted as the "AI developer conference of the year," promising a wealth of insights and experiences for developers, architects, and IT leaders. If you're a Heroku enthusiast or looking to dive into the world of Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), this is an event you don’t want to miss. Register today and then head over to the Agenda Builder to create a personalized agenda. Developer Meetup: Connecting the Heroku Community Heroku, Salesforce's…

Automatic Certificate Management for Eco Dynos

TLS and HTTPS encryption have become foundational primitives and a requirement for running any app or service on the internet. Many Heroku customers told us through our public roadmap to make Heroku Automated Certificate Management available to all dyno types, including our Eco subscription. We’re thrilled to announce that Automatic Certificate Management(ACM) and manual certificate support are now available for apps running on Eco dynos. You can manually add certificates, or use Heroku ACM to make getting set up with https quick and simple. Certificates handled by ACM automatically renew one month before they expire. New certificates are created automatically…

Innovating on Heroku is now more cost-effective

Heroku is improving the cost-effectiveness of Heroku Enterprise with the addition of Basic dynos. Now, Enterprise customers can unlock the power of Basic dynos on the Common Runtime. Basic dynos enable seamless app development and testing on the Heroku platform in the most efficient and cost-effective way. As part of our efforts to simplify our pricing and packaging, we’re ensuring parity in our product offerings between our card-paying and our Enterprise-contracted customers. Most frequently, Heroku customers use Basic dynos for testing new applications, creating reference apps, and for small-scale projects. By making Basic dynos available on Enterprise, these same apps…

Heroku in AWS Marketplace

Today at AWS re:Invent, we’re excited to announce that Heroku is available for purchase in AWS Marketplace through the Private Offers program. Buying Heroku in AWS Marketplace gives you consolidated billing and seamless provisioning. There’s also more opportunity for Heroku and AWS to work with you to find the best mix of products for your apps and workloads. If you’re a U.S. AWS Enterprise Discount Program (EDP) customer, starting today, you can buy Dynos, Private Spaces, Heroku Postgres, Heroku Data for Redis®, Apache Kafka on Heroku, and Heroku Connect through AWS Marketplace Private Offers. Get in touch with a Heroku…

Enhancing Heroku Postgres with pgvector: Generating AI Insights

We’re pleased to introduce the pgvector extension on Heroku Postgres. In an era where large language models (LLMs) and AI applications are paramount, pgvector provides the essential capability for performing high-dimensional vector similarity searches. This allows Heroku Postgres to quickly find similar data points in complex data, which is great for applications like recommendation systems and prompt engineering for LLMs. As of today, pgvector is fully compatible with all Production-tier databases running Postgres 15 at no additional charge and you can get started with a simple CREATE EXTENSION vector; command in your client session. In this post, we look at…

Heroku User Research Program: A Catalyst for Collaboration and Growth

At Heroku, we’re on a mission to continuously improve our products and services to provide the best possible customer experience. Feedback is at the heart of our innovation, and we’re excited to highlight the Heroku User Research Program. Through this initiative, our customers provide feedback, test new features, and share their insights directly with our product teams. Your Participation Matters Since we introduced this program in April 2023, we’ve made significant strides to enhance our product offerings and engage more effectively with you. Here’s a glimpse of the impact we’ve achieved together in just six months: 60+ in-depth interviews with…

Global Expansion for Heroku Private Spaces: Canada, India, Singapore, and the United Kingdom

In May 2023, we announced our limited release of two new Heroku Private Spaces regions: India (Mumbai) and Canada (Montreal). This month, we’re announcing the full general availability of those two regions, along with new Heroku Private Spaces regions for the United Kingdom (London) and Singapore. This expansion enables customers to maintain greater control over where their data is stored and processed. These four new regions fully support Heroku Private Spaces, Heroku Shield Private Spaces, Heroku Postgres, Apache Kafka on Heroku, Heroku Data for Redis, Heroku Connect, and most Heroku Add-ons. Private Spaces provide a dedicated virtual network environment for…

Join us for a New Chapter of Growth and Innovation

While it's not our usual approach to announce hiring updates on our product blog, we're pleased to share our ongoing dedication to improving the Heroku experience. Focused Growth and Progress Heroku is entering a new phase of investment, and as a part of this initiative, we are opening up new positions for individuals who would like to join us in driving this effort. Our goal is to expand our offerings across the platform, catering to both our customers and ecosystem partners. Our mission remains clear: we aim to assist developers in creating their best code yet, enabling them to build…

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