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Modern web apps are increasingly making use of asynchronous, background workers for task processing needs. For many apps, workers are just as, if not even more important than the front end http stack. Ever since we launched DJ , we’ve been overwhelmed with requests from customers wanting access to several DJ workers per app. Based on the feedback, we have been coding away, making this happen, and today we’re proud to announce the release of Heroku Workers.

Workers as first-class citizens

The new Workers feature is based on Delayed Job, and will replace the current…

A couple of weeks ago we announced that New Relic RPM Bronze is available free of charge for all Heroku customers through the our add-on catalog New Relic RPM is a application performance management tool that allows you to monitor, troubleshoot, and tune the performance of your Heroku app. One-click integration with the Heroku platform means that you can activate an RPM account and start monitoring your application in just minutes.

Here’s more great news: now you can upgrade to RPM Silver or RPM Gold, through the same add-on catalog . RPM Silver and Gold…

We’ve secured a two room suite at the Rubyconf event hotel for the Thursday night of the conference. A number of Heroku’s team members including James Lindenbaum, Adam Wiggins, Morten Bagai, Oren Teich, Todd Matthews, Pedro Belo and Blake Mizerany will be hanging out, talking shop and looking to connect with folks interested in learning more about Heroku.

Rubyconf has an exceptional lineup this year and Thursday is sure to rock it with talks scheduled from 9am-6pm and Lightening Talks beginning at 8pm. Because we don’t want you to miss any of this years excellent program,…

These days, it seems like almost all apps need to send email. And everyone has a gmail account. So why not have your app send email through Gmail? It’s fairly easy with just a few steps.

Heroku currently runs Ruby 1.8.6. This means you need to provide your own SMTP TLS library. Luckily, Adam has made that super easy with a quick little Rails plugin . Simply install the library, set a few config variables , and you’re good to go. Best of all, this simple plugin will work on any…

Heroku has focused since day one on making the end-to-end application experience as easy as possible. From our git focused workflow to the automated management of deployed applications, we’ve worked hard to give developers the flexibility to build amazing apps. Today we’re excited to announce a major extension of this flexibility with Add-ons .

For those who just want to see it in action, here’s a 3 minute overview:

Add-ons

Add-ons are a way to extend your application. They can provide core functionality (like full-text search or cron ), add features…