Heroku Blog
- Engineering
- Last Updated: May 30, 2024
- Jeff Dickey
Over the past decade, millions of developers have interacted with the Heroku CLI. In those 10 years, the CLI has gone through many changes. We've changed languages several times; redesigned the plugin architecture; and improved test coverage and the test framework. What follows is the story of our team's journey to build and maintain the Heroku CLI from the early days of Heroku to today.
- News
- Last Updated: August 08, 2017
- Rimas Silkaitis
At the core of Heroku’s data services sits Postgres, and today, we are making it even easier to bend Heroku Postgres to the very unique needs of your application’s stack. With these new features, you can easily customize Postgres, making it more powerful and configurable, while retaining all the automation and management capabilities of Heroku Postgres you know and love. By changing Postgres settings, creating and working with database credentials, and providing tight integrations to Heroku and Heroku CI, you now have the ability to further tune your Postgres database to your team’s needs.
- Ecosystem
- Last Updated: July 28, 2017
- Arif Gursel
Need to quickly catch up on this past quarter's announcements? Here are the top three topics to tune in on:
Heroku announced the general availability of continuous integration (CI) on May 18, 2017. This new feature creates copies of staging apps to run tests, then destroys the app and its add-ons. With Heroku CI, you will see an increase in the number of default ephemeral plan resources regularly provisioned on Heroku review and CI apps. …
- News
- Last Updated: July 25, 2017
- Michelle Peot
Today we’re making our Slack integration generally available to all Heroku customers through the release of Heroku ChatOps.
ChatOps is transforming the way dev teams work, replacing the asynchronous communication and context-switching of traditional operations processes with a shared conversational environment so teams can stay focused, communicate in real-time, gain visibility, and speed joint decision making.
Having seen the benefits of Slack integration for managing our own apps, we wanted to make ChatOps easier to …
- News
- Last Updated: May 30, 2024
- Richard Schneeman
I recently demonstrated how you can use Rack Mini Profiler to find and fix slow queries. It’s a valuable tool for well-trafficked pages, but sometimes the slowdown is happening on a page you don't visit often, or in a worker task that isn't visible via Rack Mini Profiler. How can you find and fix those slow queries?
Heroku has a feature called expensive queries that can help you out. It shows historical performance data …
- News
- Last Updated: June 20, 2017
- Joe Kutner
It’s rare when a highly structured language with fairly strict syntax sparks emotions of joy and delight. But Kotlin, which is statically typed and compiled like other less friendly languages, delivers a developer experience that thousands of mobile and web programmers are falling in love with.
The designers of Kotlin, who have years of experience with developer tooling (IntelliJ and other IDEs), created a language with very specific developer-oriented requirements. They wanted a modern syntax, …
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