Heroku Blog
- Engineering
- Last Updated: December 18, 2019
- Julián Duque
This blog post is adapted from a talk given by Julián Duque at NodeConf EU 2019 titled "Let it crash!." Before coming to Heroku, I did some consulting work as a Node.js solutions architect. My job was to visit various companies and make sure that they were successful in designing production-ready Node applications. Unfortunately, I witnessed many different problems when it came to error handling, especially on process shutdown. When an error occurred, there was often not enough visibility on why it happened, a lack of logging details, and bouts of downtime as applications attempted to recover from crashes. Julián:…
Today, many people with diabetes are choosing to manage their condition using devices called continuous glucose monitors (CGMs). Not only do they replace the need for most finger prick testing, but they also provide a stream of data round the clock. However, like all data, it’s only as useful as the tools that analyze it. That’s where Sugarmate comes in. Created by serial entrepreneur Josh Juster to help manage his own condition, Sugarmate combines a Heroku back-end with web, mobile, and smartspeaker apps to provide life-changing alerts and analysis for people living with diabetes. Alexa, what’s my blood sugar level?…
- News
- Last Updated: May 14, 2024
- Scott Truitt
Today, we’re thrilled to announce four new trusted data integrations that allow data to flow seamlessly and securely between Heroku and external resources in public clouds and private data centers: Heroku Postgres via mutual TLS Heroku Postgres via PrivateLink Apache Kafka on Heroku via PrivateLink Heroku Redis via PrivateLink These integrations expand Heroku's security and trust boundary to cover the connections to external resources and the data that passes through them. They enable true multi-cloud app and data architectures and keep developers focused on delivering value versus managing infrastructure. Data is the driving force in modern app development, and these…
- Engineering
- Last Updated: October 31, 2019
- Jason Draper
As an experiment to see how static typing could help improve our team’s Ruby experience, we introduced Sorbet into a greenfield codebase with a team of 4 developers. Our theory was that adding static type checking through Sorbet could help us catch bugs before they go into production, make refactoring easier, and improve the design of our code. The short answer is that yes, it did all of that! Read on to learn a little more about what it was like to build in a type safe Ruby. The Sorbet project’s logo Static typing vs dynamic typing Ruby is a…
- Life
- Last Updated: October 22, 2019
- Anand Gurumurthi
As part of my MBA at Carnegie Mellon University, I enrolled in a Leadership development certificate program. I was given the opportunity to work with an amazing Leadership Coach, (Laura Maxwell). Laura helped me on my journey of "overcoming my fear of failure". As part of the program, I was able to share my story with the dean, professors, and the leadership development center at CMU. Since this is a rather common experience, I wanted to share my story with all of you as well. This story starts, as many do, in childhood. Growing up in India, there has always…
- Engineering
- Last Updated: April 29, 2024
- Bernerd Schaefer
Over the past four years, the Heroku Runtime team has transitioned from occasional, manual deployments to continuous, automated deployments. Changes are now rolled out globally within a few hours of merging any change—without any human intervention. It's been an overwhelmingly positive experience for us. This post describes why we decided to make the change, how we did it, and what we learned along the way. Where We Started Heroku’s Runtime team builds and operates Heroku’s Private Space (single-tenant) and Common Runtime (multi-tenant) platforms, from container orchestration to routing and logging. When I joined the team in 2016, the process for…
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