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- Last Updated: May 14, 2024
- Kenneth Reitz
Here at Heroku, we focus our energy on developer experience and productivity. Historically, this has revolved around command-line tools like the Heroku Toolbelt and the Heroku CLI. As a polyglot platform, we have developers that come from all backgrounds — some that prefer command-line workflows and others that prefer web interface. Most use a bit of both.
Today, we're introducing a new first-class interface to our platform: the Heroku Dashboard.
- News
- Last Updated: September 13, 2012
- Michelle Greer
In 2007, Los Angeles web development shop Bitscribe loved the productivity gains they found by developing using agile methodologies. What they didn’t like was the labor-intensive process necessary to deploy applications. Bitscribe principals James, Adam, and Orion decided to build a company just to solve this problem. They called it “Heroku”, a combination of the words “hero” and “haiku”.
Hundreds of development shops from small shops like Bitscribe to large GSIs like Accenture now rely …
- News
- Last Updated: May 16, 2024
- Mark Pundsack
A couple months ago, we launched a completely redesigned Heroku status site. Since design is important to us and, we think, to many of you, we're taking a break from our usual blog posts to dig into the Heroku approach to visual product design.
Read on to experience the twists and turns on the way to the final design and let us know in the comments if you want to see more posts like …
- News
- Last Updated: August 03, 2012
- Matthew Soldo
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 …
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- Last Updated: August 02, 2012
- Craig Kerstiens
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 …
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- Last Updated: July 19, 2012
- Mattt Thompson
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 …
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