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Over the past couple of years Heroku customers have occasionally reported unexplained latency on Heroku. There are many causes of latency—some of them have nothing to do with Heroku—but until this week, we failed to see a common thread among these reports. We now know that our routing and load balancing mechanism on the Bamboo and Cedar stacks created latency issues for our Rails customers, which manifested themselves in several ways, including:

• Unexplainable, high latencies
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Yesterday, one of our customers let us know about significant performance issues they have experienced on Heroku. They raised an important issue and I want to let our community know about it. In short, Ruby on Rails apps running on Bamboo have experienced a degradation in performance over the past 3 years as we have scaled.

We failed to explain how our product works. We failed to help our customers scale. We failed our community …

Waza (技) 2013 is less than a month away and we are excited to have a full lineup of speakers who will be talking about their perspectives on art and technique. In between the talks, take part in an unique blend of conversation and craft through the hands-on workshops led by artisans teaching their trades from origami creations, to take-home woodblock prints, and even a hand-crafted and dyed quilt. Take part in this celebration of …

The Concourse – San Francisco February 28, 2013

Heroku’s Waza (技), the Japanese word for art and technique, is an immersive one-day developer experience focused on craft. Throughout the event you will find technical sessions with added experiences in music, art and technology. The event features technical sessions, hands-on workshops, great food, and traditional music.

Registration is now open! Tickets are $300.

Last year’s event sold out in a matter of hours. Don’t risk missing …