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Simple data sharing with Data Clips

Data clips are available today in beta as a standard feature on all Heroku Postgres databases.

When we share information on the Internet, we do so by sharing URLs. We send URLs for locations, books, videos, and even source code. Until now there hasn't been a convenient way to share data inside a database. That's why we're introducing Data Clips. They are a fast and easy way to unlock the data in your …

Database Server Performance: Small Change, Big Win

At the Heroku Department of Data, we are always investigating ways to improve the reliability, security and performance of your database servers. We do this by monitoring the entire ecosystem around it; we monitor the reliability of the platform itself, as well as keeping a close eye on the hardware where your data is hosted on upstream servers. But this also includes listening to the community. We do that by staying involved with our users …

InfoWorld Names Heroku a 2012 Technology of the Year

InfoWorld has named Heroku as a 2012 Technology of the Year. While we're not normally much for industry awards, we feel honored to be included alongside past winners such as the iPad, Android, Visual Studio, and Eclipse; and this year's winners, including Amazon Web Services, Node.js, Hadoop, CloudBees, and Heroku add-on provider Rhomobile.

InfoWorld is a venerable publication in the technology world, and this is the first time they've given awards in the cloud …

PostgreSQL 9.1 Available in Beta

One of the benefits of consuming a database through Heroku Postgres is that we are continually improving the service. This benefit is compounded by the fact that our service is based on PostgreSQL, a vibrant and active open source project. The release of PostgreSQL 9.1 had added a number of feature, performance and reliability improvements. These are available today with our beta support for PostgreSQL 9.1.

We have been testing and watching PostgreSQL …

Deploy Grails Applications on Heroku

UPDATE: Grails 2 support is deprecated and ending on June 1, 2017. For Grails 3, please see the documentation for Deploying Gradle Apps on Heroku, as Grails 3 and onward use Gradle as their packaging mechanism.

We're happy to announce the public beta of Grails application deployment on Heroku with support for Grails 1.3.7 and 2.0 provided by the open source Heroku Grails buildpack.

Grails is a high-productivity web application framework for …

Heroku Postgres Launches

Heroku's Postgres database service, the origins of which date back to 2007, is one of the most battle-tested cloud database services around.

Over the last year, our growing data team has done an amazing job of dramatically increasing the scale, reliability, and durability of the service – now boasting 99.99% (measured) uptime and over 400 million write-transactions per day.

Until now, the service has only been available to Heroku customers, but today we are pleased …

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