Heroku Blog

We’re delighted to announce that Facebook and Heroku have teamed up to bring you the fastest and easiest way to get your own Facebook app up and running in the cloud.

Facebook apps have long been a major segment on the Heroku platform. From scrappy startups like Cardinal Blue to Hollywood giants like Warner Brothers, Heroku’s scale-out capabilities and friction-free workflow enables these innovative companies to easily deliver great social experiences. Now, Facebook has created …

Developers with experience in both Java and Ruby web development often ask the question: Why is web app development so complicated in Java, and so much simpler in Ruby, with Rails?

There are many ways to answer this question. But importantly, none of them should blame the Java language itself. The people behind Play Framework proved this by creating a Java based web framework that is as elegant and productive as Rails for Ruby.

It …

We're pleased to announce the public beta of Heroku for Java. Java is the fourth official language available on the Cedar stack.

Java is, by many measures, the world's most popular programming language. In addition to its large and diverse developer base, it offers a huge ecosystem of libraries and tools, an extremely well-tuned VM for fast and reliable runtime performance, and an accessible C-like syntax.

But there are also many criticisms commonly leveled …

Programming languages are silos. The libraries, development tools, deployment practices, and even naming schemes associated with one language — say, Ruby — rarely have much carry-over to another language — say, Python, Erlang, Java, or C++.

Professional programmers dedicate their careers to becoming experts in a particular language, making extensive personal investment in learning not only their chosen language’s syntax and libraries, but also the ecosystem of tools and practices from that language’s …

The rails community is making the final push to get 3.1 out and is looking for your help! As part of a worldwide effort over the weekend, Heroku is hosting a local hackfest to help finalize Rails 3.1.

On Saturday, July 23rd from 12pm to 5pm, Heroku will be hosting a gathering for the Rails 3.1 Hackfest. We're looking for people that want to improve things at all levels of the Rails stack – …