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New Status Page with Real-Time Incident Updates

Developers like you deploy code to hundreds of thousands of apps every month on the Heroku platform. Some of these are production apps which serve hundreds of millions or even billions of requests per month. Uptime of the platform is critical for such apps.

We want to achieve the sustained reliability that these apps require. But when there are incidents that impact uptime, we want to maximize our transparency and accountability to you and all …

SSL Endpoint Is Now Available for All Heroku Users

Earlier this month we released the public beta of an improved SSL solution, SSL Endpoint. We’ve received positive feedback from everyone using the new SSL solution.

Based on this strong positive response and adoption during the beta, we’re officially moving SSL Endpoint to general availability starting today. It is now the recommended option for any app which needs SSL on a custom domain.

In conjunction with SSL Endpoint’s GA status, we’re consolidating and simplifying …

Multiple Ruby Version Support on Heroku

Maximizing parity between development and production environments is a best practice for minimizing surprises at deployment time. The version of language VM you're using is no exception. One approach to this is to specify it using the same dependency management tool used to specify the versions of libraries your app uses. Clojure uses this technique with Leinigen, Scala with SBT, and Node.js with NPM. In each case, Heroku reads the dependency file …

Crane: Heroku’s new $50 per month production database

Last week we launched our dev plan, a free database designed for development and testing. Today, we are launching into public beta two new plans: Crane and Kappa. These plans are part of our production tier, offering the same monitoring, operations, support, and data protection features as our more expensive plans.

Crane is available for $50 per month and features a 400 mb cache. Kappa is $100 per month and features a 800 mb …

Announcing Better SSL For Your App

SSL is a crucial part of any web app with a login session. As Firesheep demonstrated, HTTPS everywhere is the path forward for modern web apps. Heroku follows this with our own login-protected apps, from the management interface to the Dev Center.

Announcing Better SSL For Your App

Today, we're announcing two new features to make it as easy as possible for you to secure your app running on Heroku with SSL.

First, all …

Heroku’s new, free PostgreSQL 9.1 development database

Introducing the newest plan in the Heroku Postgres line-up: dev. It is an updated replacement for the PostgreSQL 8.3-based shared database add-on. This plan is available immediately in public beta:

$ heroku addons:add heroku-postgresql:dev

It can also be provisioned through the Heroku add-ons catalog.

What's New?

This new dev plan offers increased parity between our free database service and our paid, production plans. New features include:

A Good Day For Postgres: Postgres.app, Postgres Guide, and Schemaless SQL

Today has been a very good day for Postgres.

We here at Heroku love Postgres, and we aren’t afraid to show it. Here’s how three different Herokai showed their PG love in three awesome ways in the last 24 hours:

Postgres.app is the easiest way to run PostgreSQL on the Mac. Just open the app, and you have a server up and running with Postgres 9.1 and PostGIS 2.0. PostgreSQL has not been the easiest …

Heroku Changelog: Track Changes to the Heroku Platform

The Heroku Changelog is a feed of all public-facing changes to the Heroku runtime platform. While we announce all major new features via the Heroku blog, we’re making small improvements all the time. When any of those improvements have any user-visible impact, you’ll find them in the changelog.

Some recent examples of posts to the changelog include new versions of the Heroku CLI, a new error code, and changes to logging.

To …

Matz Named 2011 Free Software Award Winner

We are pleased to announce that Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto, the creator of Ruby and Heroku's Chief Ruby Architect, has received the 2011 annual Advancement of Free Software Award.

Java Template Apps on Heroku

Editor's Note: The functionality described in this blog post has been replaced by Heroku Button. The Heroku Elements marketplace now lists hundreds of template apps that can be easily deployed. Check out Heroku Elements to find an app to deploy.

Learning a new language or framework can be both fun and rewarding. But tutorials only get you so far: one of the easiest ways to get started is by copying an existing sample app.

Today …

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