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- Last Updated: April 04, 2024
- Chris Peterson
In September, we announced our new low-cost Eco dynos plan and Mini plans for Heroku Postgres and Heroku Data for Redis®. The time has come! These plans are available today for new and existing applications. For customers paying by credit or debit card, the Eco dynos and Mini data plans are free until November 30th, 2022. While our free dyno and data plans will no longer be available starting November 28th, 2022, you can upgrade to our new plans early, without extra cost. You begin accruing charges for these plans on December 1st, 2022. To make the upgrade from free…
- News
- Last Updated: November 04, 2022
- Brittany Jones, Paul Fleming
Today, we’re announcing heroku data:labs, an extension of the Heroku Data client plugin. This plugin allows you to make configuration changes to your Heroku Postgres addons. Previously, you could only enable these features by opening a ticket with Heroku Support. With heroku data:labs, you’ll save time by turning these features on and off yourself. heroku data:labs features are experimental beta features. Upon its release, you can enable and disable two features, and we plan to add more in the future. The initial features are: WAL Compression – Write-Ahead Log (WAL) compression is a feature of Postgres databases that shrinks the…
While it is a little unusual for us to share a hiring post on our product blog, I’ve been asked about our investment in Heroku repeatedly, so we want shine the spotlight on our efforts to grow the team. We are hiring for both product and engineering, from developers to engineering managers working across our product suite, including Runtime, API, DX, and our Data products. Additionally, we have opened roles in our Research, TPM, Documentation, and Product Management teams. Check out all our open roles. Our public roadmap continues to evolve, and I am delighted to see significant customer engagement…
- News
- Last Updated: May 30, 2024
- Deb Robbins
[Update: October 3, 2022 – The Heroku for GitHub Students program is now live. Instructions for signing up for the program have been added to this post.] One of the things I value about being a Salesforce employee is our commitment to community. We support education through giving, mentoring, and many other programs. That commitment extends through our work on Heroku. Heroku is a powerful way to enter the Salesforce ecosystem, and we are proud of the number of students who have used the Heroku platform to build their careers. GitHub Partnership Today, we are announcing a new partnership with…
- News
- Last Updated: September 27, 2022
- Andrew Fawcett
Update November 7th, 2022: These plans are now generally available. Take a look at our launch announcement post for more information on migration. When we announced Heroku’s Next Chapter last month, we received a lot of feedback from our customers. One of the things that stood out was interest in a middle ground between our retired Heroku free plan and our current Hobby dyno and data plans, a lower-cost option. We’ve also fielded requests to keep a dyno that “sleeps” when not receiving requests, which is an integral feature for non-production apps. Eco Dynos: Free While Sleeping With that in…
Back in May, I wrote about my enthusiasm to be part of the Heroku story, and I remain just as passionate today about helping write the next chapter. I’ve had many customer meetings over the past few months, and the theme is consistent — you want to know where we are taking Heroku. We want to be clear: The priority going forward is to support customers of all sizes who are betting projects, careers, and businesses on Heroku. These are companies like PensionBee, who help people manage their pensions; MX, who help small businesses with loans; Furnished Quarters, who built…
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