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- Last Updated: May 22, 2024
- Morten Bagai
Since the beginning of our private beta Heroku has been used by developers all over the world. Recently, we’ve been delighted to see a particularly strong interest from Rubyists in Europe looking to take advantage of the deployment and scalability benefits of our platform.
On their trips to Erlang Factory in London and Kings of Code in Amsterdam, Blake and Orion saw immense interest from both individual hackers and established companies.
In August I’ll be making the trip to several European Ruby user group meetings to catch up with even more users, and hopefully gain a better…
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- Last Updated: June 03, 2024
- Morten Bagai
You probably already know all about our friends and fellow Y Combinator alumni at Justin.tv. For the last couple of years, they’ve been driving an explosion of live video content on the web, streaming thousands of channels featuring events and people from all over the world.
Today, things are about to get even more interesting as Justin.tv launches an extensive API that allows you to build your own live video apps using Justin.tv’s existing content and their technology platform. Whether you’re looking to enhance your own lifecasting project, or add video-based customer service to your company’s website,…
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- Last Updated: April 29, 2024
- Adam Wiggins
Our goal for the Heroku platform has been to create a totally smooth and seamless experience for getting your Ruby web application online. Web apps revolve around one or more dynamic web processes: what Rubyists often call a mongrel, and what we call a dyno . When it comes to dynos, we think we’ve really nailed it, and nothing makes that more tangible than the ease of scaling your app with the dyno slider .
But most serious web apps have a second aspect: one that gets less attention, but one that is often just as…
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- Last Updated: April 24, 2024
- Morten Bagai
Congratulations to Michael who’s the winner of our Heroku+Twilio Developer contest. Michael got seriously busy, and submitted not one but two projects for the contest!
The first is a handy app that tells students, faculty, employees, and visitors at Duke University which places on campus are currently open. Simply call in, and it’ll read you back a list of open restaurants, libraries etc. There’s even a keypad-based search option. Seriously cool stuff! You can try it on the Twilio sandbox by calling (866) 583-6913 and entering 4456-8772 when prompted for a PIN.
If that wasn’t…
- News
- Last Updated: July 07, 2009
- Morten Bagai
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…
- News
- Last Updated: July 02, 2009
- Morten Bagai
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…
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