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- Engineering
- Last Updated: April 29, 2024
- Bernerd Schaefer
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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 …
- News
- Last Updated: October 01, 2019
- Scott Truitt
We are thrilled to announce that Apache Kafka on Heroku Shield is now generally available and certified for handling PHI, PII, and HIPAA-compliant data. Our newest managed data service unifies Heroku Shield, a set of Heroku platform services that offer additional security features needed for building high compliance applications, with Apache Kafka on Heroku, our fully-managed service based on the leading open-source solution for handling event streams.
Organizations of all sizes face relentless pressure to …
- News
- Last Updated: April 03, 2024
- Sepideh Setayeshfar
Today we are thrilled to announce the general availability (GA) release of Heroku Enterprise Accounts. All Enterprise Teams associated with a company are nested under an Enterprise Account which delivers a higher level of visibility and accountability. With an Enterprise Account, executives and admins can ensure trust and improved agility with simple fast management of teams, users and expenses, so application development teams can stay focused on the development process.
With applications sitting at …
- Engineering
- Last Updated: August 28, 2019
- Corey Purcell
As outlined in a previous blog post, Heroku Data services undergo routine maintenances for security and patching. In this post, we describe the process used to minimize downtime for Heroku Postgres and Heroku Redis premium ‘High Availability’ plans and how we optimized the process to perform up to 75% faster.
High availability plans for Postgres and Redis are designed to have two database instances running at the same time. One is …
- Engineering
- Last Updated: May 16, 2024
- Ariana Escobar, Jamie White
This is the second post in a two-part series about accessibility. The first post shares why designing for accessibility is important to us and why we encourage you to incorporate it into your software design process.
Heroku’s first accessibility initiative was to reach Level AA for luminance contrast ratio as defined by the internationally recognized best practices of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0. This ratio guarantees the legibility of text against its …
- Life
- Last Updated: August 15, 2019
- Ariana Escobar, Jamie White
This is the first post in a two-part series about accessibility. Part two shares our design and development process addressing one aspect of accessibility in the Heroku product.
Equality as a Salesforce Value
We at Salesforce firmly believe that access to information and the ability to contribute to our digital environment should be recognized as basic human rights, not a nice-to-have features.
Globally, hundreds of millions of people have physical, speech, cognitive, and neurological disabilities, …
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