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- Last Updated: January 22, 2010
- James Lindenbaum
You, our customers, have given us great feedback that in some places our pricing isn’t aligned with the value we provide, and in other places our pricing is just confusing.
We want to be more transparent about how we’re thinking about pricing, so today we’re announcing our pricing philosophy, as well as the first of a series of changes: moving away from storage based pricing on our database offering.
Platform Value and Pricing Philosophy
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- Last Updated: June 03, 2024
- Oren Teich
Last month’s featured app was FlightCaster. FlightCaster provides flight delay prediction, letting you know 6 hours in advance if your flight is delayed. Today we’ve posted their success story, along with a great video with their CEO, Jason Freedman.
Jason goes into some great details on how they use Heroku to handle their complex application, including using a Hadoop cluster to process millions of updates. In his words, “Heroku has enabled us to deliver a …
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- Last Updated: December 12, 2009
- Oren Teich
This month’s featured app is Best Buy IdeaX, developed by Bust Out Solutions. Best Buy IdeaX is a forum for Best Buy customers to share, rate, and discuss ideas to help make Best Buy better.
“We were very interested in running IdeaX on a cloud computing infrastructure such as Amazon EC2, but the cost of maintaining our own EC2 instances was just too high, not to mention frustrating. Heroku solves those problems for us with …
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- Last Updated: May 16, 2024
- Oren Teich
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 …
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- Last Updated: December 02, 2009
- Oren Teich
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: …
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- Last Updated: November 13, 2009
- Sharon Schmidt
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 …
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