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- Life
- Last Updated: March 28, 2024
- Joe Kutner
As CEO of Disney, Michael Eisner had a policy that any employee could come to his office and pitch an idea. He believed that breaking down hierarchical barriers allowed innovative ideas to come from anywhere, and it worked. Disney invested in many of those pitches, some of which became the kernels for films like The Little Mermaid and Pocahontas.
At Heroku, we know our employees are full of innovative ideas waiting for investment. …
- News
- Last Updated: February 04, 2020
- Scott Truitt
After a successful evaluation period, PostgreSQL 12 is now the default version for new Heroku Postgres databases and an available upgrade for existing databases.
I want to emphasize a few key changes and improvements in Postgres 12:
Native Table Partitioning Concurrent Operations
Native Partitioning was introduced in PostgreSQL 10 and performance improvements for improved parallel processing were added in PostgreSQL 11. Updating tables, altering partitions blocking queries, and executing concurrent operations for Native Partitioning were …
- Engineering
- Last Updated: June 03, 2024
- Lenora Porter
In this post, we will cover changes coming to Chrome (and other browsers) that affect how third-party cookies are handled—specifically SameSite changes, how to test to see if your site is impacted and how to fix it.
- Engineering
- Last Updated: January 15, 2020
- chris le roy
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As part of our Blackhat Europe talk “Reverse Engineering and Exploiting Builds in the Cloud” we publicly released a new tool called Terrier.
Announcing Terrier: An open-source tool for identifying and analysing container and image components.In this blog post, I am going to show you …
- News
- Last Updated: December 25, 2019
- Richard Schneeman
When Heroku launched in 2007 there was only a single Ruby version that could be used on the platform. In 2012 Heroku began to support multiple Ruby versions. Since then, we’ve had a holiday tradition of releasing the new versions of Ruby on the same day they come out, which always happens on Christmas day (December 25th).
If you’re new to the community, you might be curious about where releasing a new minor version …
- Engineering
- Last Updated: June 03, 2024
- Richard Schneeman
Update: On closer inspection, the lock type was not on the table, but on a tuple. For more information on this locking mechanism see the internal Postgresql tuple locking documentation. Postgres does not have lock promotion as suggested in the debugging section of this post.
I maintain an internal-facing service at Heroku that does metadata processing. It’s not real-time, so there’s plenty of slack for when things go wrong. Recently I discovered a Postgres …
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