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Introducing the Heroku Postgres Connector for Salesforce Data Cloud

Heroku Postgres is one of the world's largest managed data stores. Our customers rely on Heroku Postgres to store valuable data, which powers a range of experiences and services they build on Heroku. Salesforce Data Cloud integrates all your company's data into the Einstein 1 Platform , creating a comprehensive customer view for personalized engagements, analytics, and AI.

When businesses bring data from Heroku Postgres into Salesforce Data Cloud to create unified customer profiles, they can deliver highly personalized user experiences and give them a competitive advantage.

Today, we‘re excited to announce the launch of the…

Improved Heroku App Performance with HTTP/2

Introduction:

We’re excited to announce public beta support for HTTP/2 on both Heroku Common Runtime and Private Spaces . HTTP/2 support is one of the most requested and desired improvements for the Heroku platform . HTTP/2 is significantly faster than HTTP 1.1 by introducing features like multiplexing and header compression to reduce latency and therefore improve the end-user experience of Heroku apps.

Since 2023, we’ve been working on a large platform modernization of our Common Runtime router. This project will allow us to start delivering more modern networking for Heroku. With the majority…

Add-on Controls for Pay-As-You-Go Customers

Add-on Controls for Heroku Teams

At Heroku, trust and security are top priorities and we’ve been steadily adding more security controls to the platform. Recently, we launched SSO for Heroku Teams, and today, we’re excited to announce more enhancements for teams: add-on controls . Previously, this feature was only available to Heroku Enterprise customers.

The Elements Marketplace has add-ons built by our partners that help teams accelerate app development on Heroku . Add-ons can interact with your team’s data and apps, so it’s important to manage and audit which add-ons your team uses. Enabling add-on controls helps…

Expanded Memory and Compute with Heroku’s New Larger Dynos

Introduction

Heroku is excited to introduce nine new dyno types to our fleets and product offerings. In 2014 , we introduced Performance-tier dynos , giving our customers fully dedicated resources to run their most compute-intensive workloads. Now in 2024, today's standards are rapidly increasing as complex applications and growing data volumes consume more memory and carry heavier CPU loads.

With these additional dyno types, we’re excited to enable new use cases on Heroku with enhanced compute and memory specifications. Some use case examples include real-time processing against big data/real-time analytics, large in-memory cache applications such…

SSO for Pay-as-you-go Customers

Today, we’re pleased to introduce a security feature addition for Heroku pay-as-you-go customers : Single Sign-On ( SSO ). SSO makes it easy to centralize and manage access to all the various tools and services used by your employees. Previously, SSO was only available for Heroku Enterprise . SSO improves the employee experience in several ways. You can use any identity provider (IdP) with built-in SSO support for Heroku, or custom authentication solutions that support the SAML 2.0 standard.

Cybersecurity Threat Mitigation

Usernames and passwords are prime targets for cybercriminals. Frequently, individuals use the same password across multiple…

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 Heroku buildpacks ensure a native experience for each supported language ecosystem and frees…

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…

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:…

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 whenever…

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…

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