Heroku Blog
- News
- Last Updated: January 24, 2017
- Michelle Peot
We’re excited to announce that Heroku Autoscaling is now generally available for apps using web dynos.
We’ve always made it seamless and simple to scale apps on Heroku – just move the slider. But we want to go further, and help you in the face of unexpected demand spikes or intermittent activity. Part of our core mission is delivering a first-class operational experience that provides proactive notifications, guidance, and—where appropriate—automated responses to particular application events. …
- Engineering
- Last Updated: January 11, 2017
- Tom Crayford
At Heroku, we're always working towards improving operational stability with the services we offer. As we recently launched Apache Kafka on Heroku, we've been increasingly focused on hardening Apache Kafka, as well as our automation around it. This particular improvement in stability concerns Kafka's compacted topics, which we haven't talked about before. Compacted topics are a powerful and important feature of Kafka, and as of 0.9, provide the capabilities supporting a number of important …
- News
- Last Updated: January 03, 2017
- Vikram Rana
As we begin 2017, we want to thank you for supporting Heroku. Your creativity and innovation continues to inspire us, and pushed us to deliver even more new products and features in 2016. We especially want to thank everyone who helped us by beta testing, sharing Heroku with others, and providing feedback. Here are the highlights of what became generally available in 2016.
Advancing the Developer Experience
A new way to structure, manage …
- News
- Last Updated: March 29, 2024
- Jonan Scheffler
The Ruby maintainers continued their annual tradition by gifting us a new Ruby version to celebrate the holiday: Ruby 2.4 is now available and you can try it out on Heroku.
Ruby 2.4 brings some impressive new features and performance improvements to the table, here are a few of the big ones:
- Binding#irb – Runtime Invocation for IRB
- Unified Integers – Fixnum and Bignum are now Integer
- Rounding Changes – More Accurate Kernel#sprintf Rounding
- Engineering
- Last Updated: December 22, 2016
- Fred Hebert
During the development of the recently released Heroku SSL feature, a lot of work was carried out to stabilize the system and improve its speed. In this post, I will explain how we managed to improve the speed of our TLS handshakes by 4-5x.
The initial reports of speed issues were sent our way by beta customers who were unhappy about the low level of performance. This was understandable since, after all, we were not …
- News
- Last Updated: December 15, 2016
- Nahid Samsami
Today we are announcing the newest version of the Heroku CLI. We know how much time you spend in the CLI as developers and how much pride you take in being able to get things done quickly. Our new CLI has big improvements in performance as well as enhanced readability for humans and machines.
CLI response time is made up of two parts: the API response time and the performance of …
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