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- Last Updated: April 12, 2024
- Blake Mizerany
UPDATE: Node.JS is now officially available on Heroku. Today we’re offering experimental support for node.js to a limited set of users. We know there is a lot of demand, and will work with as many users as we can. See below for details. A natural complement to Ruby Yesterday we posted about how we think about the platform and make roadmap decisions. We are always looking for the next set of use cases to support, and lately we’ve been thinking about realtime apps and event-driven architectures. Today, most Ruby apps are synchronous. By default, all I/O blocks. If you’re uploading…
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- Last Updated: April 28, 2010
- James Lindenbaum
It’s been a great first quarter for us, and it’s time for a brief update on where we are and where we’re headed. Growth Heroku’s growth has continued to be huge. 1,500 new apps were deployed to Heroku last week alone, and that number increases every week. Next week we will cross the 60,000 application mark. As you can imagine, traffic is growing even more quickly, serving billions of requests per month. In fact, traffic has grown by 4x over the last four months: Many are finding great value in the platform and paying for features and scale. Our customer…
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- Last Updated: April 21, 2010
- Oren Teich
As apps have matured on Heroku, data sets have gotten much larger. Taps is designed to help development by providing a fast and easy way to transfer databases between local environments and Heroku. Today we launched taps 0.3 with a reworked architecture and a new set of features focused on large data sets: Push/Pull Specific Tables You can now choose which tables to push and pull. Specify a regex and taps will only push or pull the tables that match. To only pull specific tables, specify a comma delimited list. For example, to pull the logs and tags tables, run…
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- Last Updated: March 31, 2010
- Morten Bagai
Ever since we launched the current IP-based solution at $100/month in response to customer demand, we have been pursuing a cheaper and more elegant solution for SSL with custom certificates on Heroku. Today, we’re happy to announce the public beta of a new SSL add-on that accomplishes this goal. It’s called ssl:hostname, and is priced at $20/month. This new add-on will allow you enable SSL traffic to your application on any subdomain, such as www.mydomain.com or secure.mydomain.com, using your own SSL certificate. Note that this is a paid beta, and you will be charged for using the add-on through the…
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- Last Updated: March 25, 2010
- Oren Teich
Sinatra is one of our favorite frameworks at Heroku. Many of our apps use Sinatra, and Blake even works here. All this means we’re extremely excited to congratulate the Sinatra team on the 1.0 release! You can use Sinatra 1.0 today on Heroku. It works with both the Aspen and Bamboo stacks. Simply add the gem to your .gems file, git push, and you’ll be running Sinatra 1.0!
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- Last Updated: March 16, 2010
- Oren Teich
The top open request from our recent survey has been for memcached. Memcached is a simple, fast and scalable in-memory object caching system. Dynamic web applications use memcached to store frequently used data, reducing database load. The Heroku memcached add-on is built on the NorthScale distribution of memcached (NorthScale Memcached Server) which includes an advanced, per-user security model. The service is fully managed by NorthScale – a company formed and run by leaders of the memcached open source project. All Heroku users can use the add-on today. We’ll be using this beta period to analyze usage, determine final pricing, and…
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