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Develop a Voice App with Twilio + Heroku, Win a Netbook

Not too long ago building telephony apps, such as interactive voice response systems, was far out of reach for most web developers. Now, an exciting crop of new startups is rapidly changing that, making it easy to incorporate voice capabilities into any web app, or even build standalone voice apps. Twilio is emerging as one the leading companies in this area, offering a a REST API for building voice apps. The model is simple: sign up for a number with Twilio. When a call comes in, Twilio makes an HTTP request to URL of your choice, containing information about the…

Railslab Interview

Railslab is a great site by our friends over at New Relic that contains a wealth of knowledge on Rails scaling and application performance. A couple of weeks ago they asked Ryan and Adam to stop by for a discussion of the vision behind Heroku, and the philosophy that drives the design and buildout of our scalable, provisionless hosting platform. The interview is now available for your viewing pleasure in three parts. In the first part Adam goes into detail about the core vision behind the concept of instant deployment, and how Heroku is committed to making the deployment of…

Pimp Your Cart: Shopify Apps on Heroku

Our good friends at Shopify recently released a developer platform which makes it crazy easy to build custom functionality into an e-commerce store using a standalone Rails app. There are already some great apps available in their app store, many of which are running on Heroku. Check out the excellent getting started video by James MacAulay. It shows just how slick the Shopify API is – these guys are really taking e-commerce to the next level. (And bonus points for use of config vars to store API keys!)

Add-on: Wildcard Domains

Since we returned from a fun and successful Railsconf in Vegas, we have been in full swing completing the rollout of our paid services. The response has been enormous so far, and paid services are now available to all users. If you’ve checked out the pricing page, you’ve undoubtedly noticed our line-up of a la carte add-ons. We’re really excited about add-ons becoming a key part of our platform, allowing us to seamlessly deliver popular application services and components with the built-in scalability and ease of use you’ve come to expect from Heroku. We’ve had a solid first batch of…

RailsConf Schedule

RailsConf starts tomorrow and Heroku will be there in full force. Here’s our line up: Monday, 1:30pm — A Hat Full of Tricks with Sinatra Our very own Blake Mizerany, the creator of Sinatra, is giving a tutorial on Sinatra. Ryan Tomayko will be on hand as well. Tuesday, 1:50pm — The Future of Deployment: A Killer Panel Join me as I moderate a panel on deployment, with a truly killer group: Marc-André Cournoyer (creator of Thin), Christian Neukirchen (creator of Rack), Ryan Tomayko (Rack core team, creator of Rack::Cache, Sinatra core team), Blake Mizerany (creator of Sinatra), and Adam…

New Heroku Screencast by Remi

It’s been a bit of a blur here at Heroku HQ in the past couple of weeks. However, amidst all the launch activity we did notice a screencast so sweet we thought we’d share it with you. It really covers the whole platform exceptionally well, and we particularly dig how it manages to show off both Rails and Rack app deployment. Big ups to Remi for putting this together, and way to shame us for not getting any official screencasts together for the new and improved Heroku. 🙂

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