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- News
- Last Updated: June 03, 2024
- Hunter Loftis
All successful applications grow more complex over time, and that complexity creates challenges in development. There are two essential strategies to manage this problem: a team can keep everything together (create a monolith) or a team can divide a project into smaller pieces (create microservices). The monolith at its most extreme is a single code base that contains all of an application’s logic and to which all programmers involved contribute. This approach is perhaps the most natural, and organic growth often tends towards this model. It’s also, in many ways, the easiest to reason about and operate. A single codebase…
- Engineering
- Last Updated: May 14, 2024
- Richard Schneeman
Debugging a large codebase is hard. Ruby makes debugging easier by exposing method metadata and caller stack inside Ruby's own process. Recently in Ruby 2.2.0 this meta inspection got another useful feature by exposing super method metadata. In this post we will look at how this information can be used to debug and why it needed to be added. One of the first talks I ever wrote was "Dissecting Ruby With Ruby" all about inspecting and debugging Ruby processes using nothing but Ruby code. If you've never heard of the Method method it's worth a watch. In short, Ruby knows…
- News
- Last Updated: January 14, 2015
- Peter van Hardenberg
The most successful teams use their data to make the best decisions. We built Dataclips to allow your team to better share, reason about, and ask questions of the data you keep in Heroku Postgres. Heroku Dataclips are a lightweight data sharing tool that lets you take advantage of your organization’s most valuable asset. Dataclips were inspired by a set of collaboration tools we love like Google Docs and GitHub’s gists. We use tools like these every day to share everything from drafts of blog posts to snippets of code. The problem was that when we used them to share…
- News
- Last Updated: January 08, 2015
- Peter van Hardenberg
Each major release of PostgreSQL brings lots of great new functionality. The recent release of PostgreSQL 9.4 includes an exciting new JSON data type, improvements to window functions, materialized views, and a host of other performance improvements and enhancements. We’ll go into more depth on what’s new and exciting in this release below, but first, we want you to know that Postgres 9.4 is available in beta right now on Heroku: $ heroku addons:add heroku-postgresql –version=9.4 Because the safety and reliability of your data is incredibly important to us, we’re launching 9.4 support in a beta state. This means that…
- News
- Last Updated: March 28, 2024
- Michael Friis
Last week, a security fix was released for Git. The fix patches a bug in the Git client that is exploitable on operating systems with case insensitive file systems such as Windows and OS X. Heroku has updated the Git installer that we ship with Toolbelt for Windows. We have also removed an old Git version from the OS X installer (it was not generally used). In addition, we’ve added a Git version warning in Toolbelt that will prompt you to update Git if you’re using a vulnerable version on Windows (shown here) or OS X: $ heroku apps WARNING:…
- News
- Last Updated: December 05, 2014
- Michael Friis
Today we’re happy to announce that the HTTP Git beta is over and that HTTP Git is fully ready for production. The beta was launched less than a month ago and we are already handling thousands of HTTP Git builds per day. In addition, HTTP Git powers the Dropbox Sync beta, making sure that Dropbox folders and Heroku repos are up-to-date. Over the past month, we have seen great adoption from partners, and Travis CI is using HTTP Git as the default git strategy for Heroku deployments. We encountered few issues during the beta, and we’re confident that HTTP Git…
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