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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 …

New Dev and Basic Postgres Plans Now Available

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.app – easy development with Postgres on a Mac.

Postgres.app is the easiest way to get started developing with Postgres on the Mac. Open the app, and you have a local Postgres database ready and awaiting new connections. Close the app, and the server shuts down. It is available for free download today, and will be available on the Mac App Store pending Apple's approval.

Postgres.app is designed so that most common programming libraries can find and it and link to it automatically …

Rotate database credentials on Heroku Postgres

When was the last time you rotated your database credentials? Is it possible that old colleague still has access to your data? Or perhaps they've been accidentally leaked in a screenshot. There are many reasons to rotate your credentials regularly.

We now support the ability to easily reset your database credentials, and it is as simple as running the following on your command line:

heroku pg:credentials:rotate HEROKU_POSTGRESQL_COLOR --app your-app

When you issue the above command, …

Buildpacks: Heroku for Everything

Last summer, Heroku became a polyglot platform, with official support for Ruby, Node.js, Clojure, Java, Python, and Scala. Building a platform that works equally well for such a wide variety of programming languages was a unique technical design challenge.

siloed products would be a non-scalable design

We knew from the outset that maintaining siloed, language-specific products – a Heroku for Ruby, a Heroku for Node.js, a …

Heroku Postgres Basic Plan and Row Limits

Today, the Heroku Postgres team released into beta the new basic plan, $9 / month version of the dev plan.

Accompanying this announcement is the implementation of a 10,000 row limit on the dev plan. This row limit was designed to correspond to the 5mb limit on the existing free shared plan.

Please note that these plans are still beta, and Heroku Postgres has not yet announced a migration schedule from the shared …

Ten Million Rows for Under Ten Bucks

Six weeks ago we launched into beta the Heroku Postgres dev plan, a postgres 9.1 plan that offers many of the features of our production tier service. Over 3,000 of these dev databases are in active use, and it has been operating exceptionally well.

When we launched the dev plan, we wrote that the plan would be limited based on rows rather than physical byte size. Today we are implementing a 10,000 row limit …

Codon Security Issue and Response

Heroku learned of and resolved a security vulnerability last week. We want to report this to you, describe how we responded to the incident, and reiterate our commitment to constantly improving the security and integrity of your data and source code.

On Tuesday, June 26, Jonathan Rudenberg notified us about an issue in our Codon build system. The Codon build system is responsible for receiving application code from Git and preparing it for execution on …

Cedar is the Default Heroku Stack

The Heroku Cedar stack went public beta last year with a series of blog posts. Since then, over 80,000 developers have deployed over 4.5 million times, to apps written in dozens of different programming languages and frameworks. Today, over 75 percent of Heroku app development activity is on the Cedar stack. Production apps like Banjo, Rapportive, PageLever, do.com, and Project Zebra run on Cedar; some of these serve hundreds of millions or even billions …

Cedar Goes GA

As of today, the Cedar stack is now in general availability.

Cedar features a streamlined HTTP stack allowing for advanced HTTP capabilities, heroku run for execution of arbitrary one-off dynos, Procfile and the process model for execution of any type of worker process. Most importantly, Cedar is a polyglot platform with official support for Clojure, Java, Node.js, Python, Ruby, and Scala, and extensibility for unlimited others via buildpacks.

The Dev Center team has …

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