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- Last Updated: April 05, 2024
- Andrey Petrov
Andrey Petrov is the author of urllib3, the creator of Briefmetrics and ssh-chat, and a former Googler and Y Combinator alum. He’s back again to free us of our old ways of thinking, so that we can embrace what's really special about receivers in Go. When getting started with Go, there is a strong temptation to bring baggage from your previous language. It’s a heuristic which is usually helpful, but sometimes counter-productive and inevitably results in regret. Go does not have classes and objects, but it does have types that we can make many instances of. Further, we can attach…
- News
- Last Updated: May 16, 2024
- Chris Castle
Based in Budapest, Hungary, Andras Fincza (Head of Engineering) and Rafael Ördög (Technical Lead) work for Emarsys, a global marketing automation platform. Read our Emarsys customer story to learn more about their migration experience on Heroku. How did you introduce microservices at Emarsys? We take an evolutionary approach to our architecture. Our marketing automation platform was originally designed as a monolithic system built in PHP and MySQL and running on in-house infrastructure. We were running two major services on our in-house infrastructure: one for HDS (historical data service) and the other for smart insights and analysis. However, it was hard…
- News
- Last Updated: June 23, 2016
- Chris Castle
Darby Frey is Director of Platform Engineering at Belly, the leading loyalty marketing platform in the U.S. For more information, Read our Belly customer story to learn more about how Heroku has helped Belly scale their business. How did you approach migrating to a microservices architecture? Originally, we built the entire business on one Rails app. Then a couple years ago, we pivoted to a microservices approach. It is still a work in progress, but we’re migrating components of the monolithic app whenever it makes sense. For example, when we need to add or expand a feature, or if we…
- News
- Last Updated: June 09, 2016
- Ike DeLorenzo
For many of us, building apps is a team sport. With any team, getting all the people, processes and tools in sync and working together can be a challenge, and this is especially true with software development. Today we are announcing a new feature designed to help to make building and running effective software teams easier. Available for free (for up to five users), Heroku Teams lets groups of software developers manage different projects, permissions, and people in a unified console with centralized administration and billing. Teams is available today for all users, and is accessible via our newly enhanced…
- News
- Last Updated: April 05, 2024
- Andrey Petrov
Andrey Petrov is the author of urllib3, the creator of Briefmetrics and ssh-chat, and a former Googler and YCombinator alum. He’s here to tell us of a dangerous expedition his requests undertook, which sent them from Python, through the land of C, to a place called Go (and back again). Today we're going to make a Python library that is actually the Go webserver, for which we can write handlers in Python. It makes Python servers really fast, and—more importantly—it’s a bit fun and experimental. This post is a more detailed overview of my PyCon 2016 talk of the same…
- Engineering
- Last Updated: June 03, 2024
- Tom Crayford
At Heroku, we're always striving to provide the best operational experience with the services we offer. As we’ve recently launched Heroku Kafka, we were excited to help out with testing of the latest release of Apache Kafka, version 0.10, which landed earlier this week. While testing Kafka 0.10, we uncovered what seemed like a 33% throughput drop relative to the prior release. As others have noted, “it’s slow” is the hardest problem you’ll ever debug, and debugging this turned out to be very tricky indeed. We had to dig deep into Kafka’s configuration and operation to uncover what was going…
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