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Last week MailChimp announced that they are shutting down the Mandrill Heroku Add-on, giving users until April 27th to migrate to another solution. Many of our customers have sought guidance on how and where to migrate, so we have asked our email providers to create guides for migrating from the Mandrill add-on to their respective services.
Mailgun: Migrating from the Heroku Mandrill Add-on to the Mailgun Add-on
- Engineering
- Last Updated: March 01, 2016
- Damien Mathieu
I spend most of my time at Heroku working on our support tools and services; help.heroku.com is one such example. Heroku’s help application depends on the Platform API to, amongst other things, authenticate users, authorize or deny access, and fetch user data.
So, what happens to tools and services like help.heroku.com during a platform incident? They must remain available to both agents and customers—regardless of the status of the Platform API. There is simply no …
- News
- Last Updated: February 26, 2016
- Nahid Samsami
Today we are introducing Add-on Controls for Heroku Enterprise customers. This new feature enables team leads to allowlist specific add-ons for approved use within their organization, choosing from our marketplace of over 150 add-on services. The ability to standardize the add-on technologies being used across all the apps and developers in their organization is something many customers have asked for, especially those with fast-growing teams.
Standardizing Add-ons Using the Allowlist
To get started with Add-on …
- News
- Last Updated: May 16, 2024
- Kenneth Reitz
A big update to the beloved Python web framework known as Django was released recently: Django 1.9. This release contains a long list of improvements for everything from the graphical styling of the admin to the ability to run your test suite in parallel.
Our favorite improvements to the framework were, of course, all about our favorite database: Postgres. Here are some of the highlights from the official release notes (highly recommended reading).
Renamed …
- Engineering
- Last Updated: February 22, 2016
- Richard Schneeman
The asset pipeline is the slowest part of deploying a Rails app. How slow? On average, it’s over 20x slower than installing dependencies via $ bundle install. Why so slow? In this article, we’re going to take a look at some of the reasons the asset pipeline is slow and how we were able to get a 12x performance improvement on some apps with Sprockets version 3.3+.
The Rails asset pipeline uses the sprockets …
- News
- Last Updated: November 01, 2024
- Edward Muller
Go-kit is a distributed programming toolkit for building microservices. It solves the common problems encountered while building distributed systems, so you can focus on your business logic. This article starts with a bit of background on microservices, then guidance on how to get started with Go-kit, including instructions on getting a basic service up and running on Heroku.
A Brief Intro to Microservices
Traditionally, web applications are built using a monolithic approach where the entire …
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