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- Last Updated: November 23, 2011
- James Lindenbaum
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 …
- News
- Last Updated: November 23, 2011
- Matthew Soldo
Until now, Heroku’s Postgres database service – originally launched in 2007 – has only been available to Heroku customers for use with Heroku platform apps. Today we’re excited to announce the launch of Heroku Postgres as a standalone service.
With measured service uptime of four nines (99.99%), and designed data durability of eleven nines (99.999999999%), the service is trustworthy for mission-critical data. As of today, these production-quality Heroku Postgres databases are independently available for use …
- News
- Last Updated: November 12, 2011
- Mark Pundsack
Today we're happy to announce the availability of Heroku Scheduler. Scheduler is an add-on for running administrative or maintenance tasks, or jobs, at scheduled time intervals. It's the polyglot replacement of the Cron add-on, with more power and flexibility. And it's free; you just pay for the dyno time consumed by the one-off tasks.
A dashboard allows you to configure jobs to run every 10 minutes, every hour, or every day, and unlike …
- News
- Last Updated: October 25, 2011
- Michelle Greer
So our good friends at GitHub put together the First Annual Dodgeball Invitational with the intention of pummeling various Bay Area tech companies into submission. Heroku has never shied away from a challenge, especially when there is a giant Octocat trophy at stake. The Dodging Samurai emerged victorious despite facing a pool of 21 teams and one crotchety old man wielding a wrench.
Through brute force, covert strategies and pink tutus, the Herokai were …
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- Last Updated: March 26, 2024
- Adam Wiggins
The sixth official language on the Heroku polyglot platform is Scala, available in public beta on the Cedar stack starting today.
Scala deftly blends object-oriented programming with functional programming. It offers an approachable syntax for Java and C developers, the power of a functional language like Erlang or Clojure, and the conciseness and programmer-friendliness normally found in scripting languages such as Ruby or Python. It has found traction with big-scale companies like Twitter …
- News
- Last Updated: April 12, 2024
- Adam Wiggins
Python has joined the growing ranks of officially-supported languages on Heroku’s polyglot platform, going into public beta as of today. Python is the most-requested language for Heroku, and it brings with it the top-notch Django web framework.
As a language, Python has much in common with Ruby, Heroku’s origin language. But the Python community has its own unique character. Python has a culture which finds an ideal balance between fast-moving innovation and diligent caution. …
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