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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 …

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 …

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’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 …

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 …

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 …

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