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Today Heroku is announcing that Heroku Private Spaces is generally available. Introduced in beta in September, Private Spaces is a new Heroku runtime designed from the ground up to meet the trust and control requirements of the most demanding applications. This new architecture enables Private Spaces to deliver the best of both worlds: the easy and powerful Heroku developer experience, combined with the network and trust controls historically only available in on-premise, behind-the-firewall deployments. Made available as part of Heroku Enterprise, Private Spaces makes cloud-based PaaS ready for the most critical enterprise applications. Heroku Spaces are designed to fit in…

Today we’re pleased to announce that SSO for Heroku is generally available for Heroku Enterprise customers. SSO for Heroku supports single sign-on for SAML 2.0 compliant identity providers (IdPs), making it easier for Heroku Enterprise customers to manage identity across various systems. It also simplifies set-up for system administrators, allowing them to focus on managing authentication. Both cloud and on-premise identity providers are supported by SSO for Heroku. As of today, a number of popular commercial IdPs ship with built-in support for SSO for Heroku, including Salesforce Identity, Okta, PingOne and PingFederate. SSO for Heroku is also fully compatible with…

Rails 5 has been brewing for more than a year. To take advantage of new features, and stay on the supported path, you'll need to upgrade. In this post, we'll look at the upgrade process for a production Rails app, codetriage.com. The codebase is open source so you can follow along. Special thanks to Prathamesh for his help with this blog post. How Stable is the Beta? In Rails a beta means the API is not yet stable, and features will come and go. A Release Candidate (RC) means no new features; the API is considered stable, and RCs will…

Heroku has long been committed to making PostgreSQL one of the best relational databases in the world. We’re also committed to giving you the ability to try the latest release as soon as it’s available. Today, we’re pleased to announce the public beta of Postgres 9.5 on Heroku. PostgreSQL 9.5 brings a bevy of super exciting new features with the most prominent being the new UPSERT functionality. UPSERT gives you the expected behavior of an insert, or, if there is a conflict, an update, and is performant without the risk of race conditions for your data. UPSERT was one of…

As we start this New Year, we wanted to give you a recap of our 2015, a year filled with a lot of new products and features. We especially want to express our gratitude to everyone who helped us with inspiration, beta testing, and feedback. In case you missed anything, here are the highlights of 2015. Advancing the Developer Experience Review Apps With Review Apps, for every GitHub pull request, Heroku spins up a disposable Review App so everyone on your team can see the changes live, speeding up decisions and leading to higher quality apps. New Dynos Build apps…

Happy Holidays from Heroku. Congratulations to the ruby-core team on a successful 2.3.0 release, which is now available on Heroku — you can learn more about Ruby on Heroku at heroku.com/ruby. We had the pleasure of speaking with Matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto), the creator of Ruby and Chief Ruby Architect at Heroku, about the release. What’s New in Ruby 2.3: Interview with Matz Ruby releases happen every year on Christmas day. Why Christmas? Ruby was originally my pet project, my side project. So releases usually happened during my holiday time. Now, it’s a tradition. It’s ruby-core’s gift to the Ruby community.…

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