Heroku Blog
- News
- 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 …
- News
- 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 …
- News
- 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!, …
- News
- 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” …
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 …
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