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As part of Salesforce’s Dreamforce conference, Salesforce is hosting its second major hackathon on October 10-12 in San Francisco. The format for this year’s hackathon has been expanded to include specific categories for not just Heroku, but also some of our favorite open source projects. With over ten prizes of more than $10,000 each, this is a great opportunity to build something cool, take advantage of some of the latest Heroku features, and help your favorite open source projects. Heroku Category Heroku has long focused on helping you build apps. In looking at the data we have on the over…

Two-factor authentication is a powerful and simple way to greatly enhance security for your Heroku account. It prevents an attacker from accessing your account using a stolen password. After a 4 month beta period, we are now happy to make two-factor authentication generally available. Turning on two-factor authentication You can enable and disable two-factor authentication for your Heroku account in the Manage Account section of Dashboard. Before you turn it on, please read on here to understand the risks of account lock-out. You can also refer to the Dev Center docs for more details. How two-factor authentication protects you Without…

One of our core beliefs at Heroku is that developers do their best work when the development process is as simple, elegant, and conducive to focus and flow as possible. We are grateful for how well many of our contributions to that cause have been received, and today we are making generally available a new set of features that have been inspired by those values. Collectively, we call these new features Heroku DX—the next evolution in Heroku’s developer experience. Our goal with these new features—Heroku Button, Heroku Dashboard + Metrics and Heroku Postgres DbX—is to make it faster than ever…