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Modern web apps are increasingly making use of asynchronous, background workers for task processing needs. For many apps, workers are just as, if not even more important than the front end http stack. Ever since we launched DJ, we’ve been overwhelmed with requests from customers wanting access to several DJ workers per app. Based on the feedback, we have been coding away, making this happen, and today we’re proud to announce the release of …

A couple of weeks ago we announced that New Relic RPM Bronze is available free of charge for all Heroku customers through the our add-on catalog New Relic RPM is a application performance management tool that allows you to monitor, troubleshoot, and tune the performance of your Heroku app. One-click integration with the Heroku platform means that you can activate an RPM account and start monitoring your application in just minutes.

Here’s more great news: …

We’ve secured a two room suite at the Rubyconf event hotel for the Thursday night of the conference. A number of Heroku’s team members including James Lindenbaum, Adam Wiggins, Morten Bagai, Oren Teich, Todd Matthews, Pedro Belo and Blake Mizerany will be hanging out, talking shop and looking to connect with folks interested in learning more about Heroku.

Rubyconf has an exceptional lineup this year and Thursday is sure to rock it with talks scheduled …

These days, it seems like almost all apps need to send email. And everyone has a gmail account. So why not have your app send email through Gmail? It’s fairly easy with just a few steps.

Heroku currently runs Ruby 1.8.6. This means you need to provide your own SMTP TLS library. Luckily, Adam has made that super easy with a quick little Rails plugin. Simply install the library, set a few config variables…

Heroku has focused since day one on making the end-to-end application experience as easy as possible. From our git focused workflow to the automated management of deployed applications, we’ve worked hard to give developers the flexibility to build amazing apps. Today we’re excited to announce a major extension of this flexibility with Add-ons.

For those who just want to see it in action, here’s a 3 minute overview:

Add-ons

Add-ons are a way to …

It’s great to be a part of Heroku and to get the welcome from James and team as well as from the various customers, partners, and developers I’ve spoken with over the past few weeks. Heroku, the Ruby community at large, and the “cloud” market in general are growing and evolving quickly. As you can tell, we have a lot of exciting applications being deployed on our platform and are constantly working to improve and …

Today we’re launching an exciting new feature – maintenance mode.

We strive to make your deployment and management experience as seamless as possible, for both the developers and the end users. Part of any management task is performing routine maintenance tasks, from database migrations to more complex site upgrades. When you’re in the midst of doing these maintenance tasks, wouldn’t it be great to show your users a nice maintenance page, instead of a broken …