Heroku Blog
- News
- Last Updated: February 24, 2015
- Margaret Francis
Nine months ago we released Heroku Connect, the bi-directional data synchronization service that enables developers to build Heroku apps that seamlessly interact with Salesforce data. Since then, we’ve seen developers use it to build all types of interesting apps for web and mobile, especially for eCommerce, loyalty, and Internet of Things use cases. We’ve also seen an avalanche of requests from every corner of the Salesforce ecosystem for a simple and free way to try Heroku Connect, and explore new use cases. Today we are announcing the availability of Heroku Connect Demo Edition, a free version of Heroku Connect designed…
- News
- Last Updated: February 19, 2015
- Jesper Joergensen
Apps have transformed how we do almost everything. The ubiquity of mobile devices with millions of available apps mean that today, anyone can pull up an app in seconds to check their car engine, turn on the lights at home or ride a scooter across town. So far, the companies behind these apps have mostly been startups, many of which use Heroku to help them iterate quickly and stay focused on the customer experience instead of wasting time on infrastructure. Today we’re proud to announce Heroku Enterprise, a new edition of Heroku that helps larger companies take advantage of the…
- News
- Last Updated: February 11, 2015
- Katie Boysen
At Heroku, we love telling the stories of what our customers and partners build on the platform. We love it even more when we get a chance to talk to the development team behind a successful app. So we were excited to sit down with Steve Simpson, CTO of Ethos Solutions—a Heroku partner—to discuss how his team built the award-winning app and intelligence behind the Lynx SmartGrill. Congratulations on your success working with Lynx on the SmartGrill project! Can you tell me a little about the SmartGrill app and how it helps its users? The SmartGrill app is a native…
- News
- Last Updated: February 06, 2015
- Michael Friis
Today we’re announcing the general availability of GitHub integration for Heroku. When enabled, GitHub pushes are deployed immediately to linked Heroku apps. This is a big step forward for people working on apps with source managed on GitHub and deployed to Heroku. The integration has been in beta in Heroku Dashboard for a while, and we’ve seen great adoption and positive feedback. When a GitHub repo is connected to a Heroku app, you can either manually deploy branches from the repo, or you can configure a particular branch to auto-deploy to the app on every GitHub push. With auto-deploys enabled,…
- Engineering
- Last Updated: May 02, 2024
- Koichi Sasada
This article introduces incremental garbage collection (GC) which has been introduced in Ruby 2.2. We call this algorithm RincGC. RincGC achieves short GC pause times compared to Ruby 2.1. About the Author: Koichi Sasada works for Heroku along with Nobu and Matz on C Ruby core. Previously he wrote YARV Ruby's virtual machine, and he introduced generational GC (RgenGC) to Ruby 2.1. Koichi wrote incremental GC for Ruby 2.2 and authored this paper. Background Ruby uses GC to collect unused objects automatically. Thanks to GC, Ruby programmers do not need to release objects manually, and do not need to worry…
- News
- Last Updated: May 30, 2024
- Craig Kerstiens
In a world where microservices continue to grow, offering better agility for iterating quickly, many of the tools you use in building applications must adapt. Microservices bring together challenges in a variety of ways for the services you consume – logging and monitoring tools now need a broader perspective than that of a single app, data services may be shared either for reporting or direct access to data. Heroku has been on the forefront of creating a developer tools add-ons ecosystem that lets you focus on building your app by grabbing the service you need off the shelf. Today, the…
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