Heroku Blog
- Engineering
- Last Updated: November 04, 2015
- Owen Ou
If your application is successful, there may come a time where you’re on an unsupported version of a dependency. In the case of the Heroku Platform API, this dependency was a very old version of Active Record from many years ago. Due to the complexity involved in the upgrade, this core piece of infrastructure had been pegged at version 2.3.18, which was released in March 2013. We're happy to announce that we've overcome the …
- News
- Last Updated: March 29, 2024
- Matthew Creager
Most modern mobile apps depend heavily on the app’s back-end. That’s because many of the expectations users have for mobile apps today — for the application to work regardless of network connectivity, to notify them when relevant content changes, to have integrations with the social networks they use, for appropriate levels of security, and a hundred other things — are reliant on the app’s back-end services.
The most common pattern for mobile back-ends we see …
- Engineering
- Last Updated: October 21, 2015
- Fred Hebert
HTTP routing on Heroku is made up of three main logical layers:
- The state synchronization layer ensures that all nodes in the routing stack are aware of the latest changes in domains, application, and dyno locations across the platform;
- The routing layer chooses which dyno will handle an HTTP request (random or sticky), performs logging, error-reporting, and so on;
- The HTTP proxying layer handles the validation, normalization, and forwarding of requests between clients and dynos.
This last part is the one the platform team is happy to open-source today with the Vegur library.
- News
- Last Updated: July 12, 2024
- Jesper Joergensen
As the world becomes more cloud-centric, and more of our apps and business depend on its capabilities, the trust, control and management of cloud services is more important than ever. Since the first days of Heroku — and Platform-as-a-Service in general — many companies have struggled to balance the impact and success of the cloud with the control offered by traditional software and on-premise infrastructure. Too often that balance tips back towards software, with companies …
- News
- Last Updated: April 11, 2024
- Balan Subramanian
Apps are at the heart of modern businesses, and are important assets that need a secure platform geared for compliance and security. We launched Heroku Enterprise earlier this year with this in mind and today we are excited to announce the beta of Heroku Identity Federation for Heroku Enterprise customers. This feature unifies the login experience across Salesforce’s new App Cloud that we announced today.
As customers like Forever Living, TV4 and Macy’s run more …
- News
- Last Updated: May 06, 2024
- Margaret Francis
Today we are releasing a reference architecture and sample app for running e-commerce apps on Heroku, with a simple pattern for integrating customer, order and product data with Salesforce via Heroku Connect. The key: Any transaction recorded in Heroku Postgres can be seamlessly integrated with Salesforce via Heroku Connect.
Many Salesforce customers are looking to extend their Salesforce deployments with e-commerce on Heroku. Whether running a single storefront, launching new concepts …
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