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- Last Updated: April 05, 2016
- Nahid Samsami
Two years ago we released the Heroku Platform API (v3), providing a supported way to automate and instrument Heroku and making it even easier for you to build new products. Today we are deprecating the legacy, unofficial version of the API that preceded it (v2), as its usage is limited and we are focusing development on the newer, officially-supported API.
We will sunset v2 of the API on April 15, 2017. For security reasons, we …
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- Last Updated: March 22, 2016
- Matthew Creager
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We rebuilt our online …
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- Last Updated: March 21, 2016
- Joy Scharmen
If you’re a developer, it’s unlikely you’ve ever said "I wish I could spend a whole day patching critical security holes in my infrastructure!" (If you do, we’re hiring). And if you’re running a business, it’s unlikely you’ve ever said “Yes! I would like my developers to lose a day’s worth of feature-building on security patches!”.
At Heroku, we believe you shouldn’t have to spend the time required to patch, test, and deploy security …
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- Last Updated: June 03, 2024
- Jacob Kaplan-Moss
Today, we're thrilled to host Jacob Kaplan-Moss. Jacob's a former Herokai and long-time core contributor to Django, and he's here to share an in-depth look at something that he believes will define the future of the framework.
Django Channels allows Python developers to build real-time, asynchronous web apps with Python and JavaScript. It augments Django’s robust response-request architecture with asynchronous protocol handling, including WebSockets support. In this Django Channels tutorial, we’ll show you how …
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- Last Updated: April 24, 2024
- Matthew Creager
Whether they're publishing notifications, responding to /slash commands or carrying a conversation, bots have become an integral part of the way we work with Slack. A bot can do any number of things for your team as part of your day-to-day work, you're only limited by your imagination. For some first-hand experience, check out the Heroku Button Gallery, where users have created all types of bots: from fun bots like poker and Jeopardy!, …
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- Last Updated: March 02, 2016
- Joe Kutner
A common challenge when building microservices is providing a unified interface to the consumers of your system. The fact that your services are split into small composable apps shouldn’t be visible to users or result in substantial development effort.
To solve this problem, Netflix (a major adopter of microservices) created and open-sourced its Zuul proxy server. Zuul is an edge service that proxies requests to multiple backing services. It provides a unified “front door” …
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