Heroku Blog
- Engineering
- Last Updated: October 21, 2015
- Fred Hebert
HTTP routing on Heroku is made up of three main logical layers: The state synchronization layer ensures that all nodes in the routing stack are aware of the latest changes in domains, application, and dyno locations across the platform; The routing layer chooses which dyno will handle an HTTP request (random or sticky), performs logging, error-reporting, and so on; The HTTP proxying layer handles the validation, normalization, and forwarding of requests between clients and dynos. This last part is the one the platform team is happy to open-source today with the Vegur library. Vegur can be thought of a bit…
- News
- Last Updated: July 12, 2024
- Jesper Joergensen
As the world becomes more cloud-centric, and more of our apps and business depend on its capabilities, the trust, control and management of cloud services is more important than ever. Since the first days of Heroku — and Platform-as-a-Service in general — many companies have struggled to balance the impact and success of the cloud with the control offered by traditional software and on-premise infrastructure. Too often that balance tips back towards software, with companies choosing to meet those requirements by building and running their own platforms, inevitably becoming frustrated by the resulting complexity, cost and poor experience. Today Heroku…
- News
- Last Updated: April 11, 2024
- Balan Subramanian
Apps are at the heart of modern businesses, and are important assets that need a secure platform geared for compliance and security. We launched Heroku Enterprise earlier this year with this in mind and today we are excited to announce the beta of Heroku Identity Federation for Heroku Enterprise customers. This feature unifies the login experience across Salesforce's new App Cloud that we announced today. As customers like Forever Living, TV4 and Macy’s run more of their apps and business-critical services on Heroku, they need tighter integration with their existing security infrastructure. With our new identity federation feature, customers can…
- News
- Last Updated: May 06, 2024
- Margaret Francis
Today we are releasing a reference architecture and sample app for running e-commerce apps on Heroku, with a simple pattern for integrating customer, order and product data with Salesforce via Heroku Connect. The key: Any transaction recorded in Heroku Postgres can be seamlessly integrated with Salesforce via Heroku Connect. Salesforce for E-Commerce Many Salesforce customers are looking to extend their Salesforce deployments with e-commerce on Heroku. Whether running a single storefront, launching new concepts and brands, or innovating to improve core retail functions, these e-commerce experiences require orchestration across multiple business functions that already use Salesforce. Common Salesforce use cases…
- News
- Last Updated: September 03, 2015
- Ike DeLorenzo
Editor's Note: Heroku Pipelines is now Generally Available. Learn more about Continuous Delivery at Heroku. At Heroku we're building a solid platform for delivering apps in a deliberate, reliable manner. We know that reasoning about the state and progress of code changes, testing and verifying what's deployed, and tracking what works can all be difficult — especially for non-engineering team members. So we’re proud to introduce Heroku Flow, a new and flexible way to structure, support, and visualize Continuous Delivery for Heroku apps from development to production. Heroku Flow does for Continuous Delivery (CD) what pull requests have done for…
- News
- Last Updated: August 20, 2015
- Brett Goulder
Last year, we launched the original Performance dyno, designed to support the largest apps running at-scale with more consistent service and faster response times. Today, with the goal of continuing to support our fast growing customers with more flexibility to choose the type of dynos best for their applications, we are excited to announce improvements to our performance dyno lineup: Performance-L — an improved and more powerful version of the existing Performance dyno, renamed the Performance-L dyno Performance-M — an entirely new dyno and smaller sibling to the Performance-L dyno The Performance-L dyno now has 14GB of RAM, 133% more…
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