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- Engineering
- Last Updated: October 02, 2014
- Scott Persinger
One of the challenges when starting a mobile app project is deciding what technology stack to use. Should the client app use iOS or Android native, mobile web, or a hybrid? Do the backend in Node, Ruby, or Java? Or skip the backend and use an Mobile Backend-as-a-Service?
To help avoid needing to answer all those on your own we are open sourcing the Heroku Mobile Template . This app provides a full-stack starting point for creating new hybrid mobile apps and deploying them to Heroku.
The template application implements…
- News
- Last Updated: September 25, 2014
- Jesper Joergensen
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.
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- News
- Last Updated: March 29, 2024
- Jesper Joergensen
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…
- Engineering
- Last Updated: May 22, 2024
- Fred Hebert
The Heroku Routing team does a lot of work with Erlang, both
in terms of development and maintenance , to make sure the platform scales smoothly
as it continues to grow.
Over time we've learned some hard-earned lessons about making systems that can
scale with some amounts of reliability (or rather, we've definitely learned what doesn't work), and about what kind of operational work we may expect to have
to do in anger.
This kind of knowledge usually remains embedded within the teams that develop
it, and tends to die when individuals leave or change roles. When new members
join the team, it…
- Engineering
- Last Updated: March 28, 2024
- David Gouldin
Celery is by far the most popular library in Python for distributing
asynchronous work using a task queue. If you're building a Python web app,
chances are you already use it to send email, perform API integrations, etc.
Many people choose Redis as their message broker of choice because
it's dead simple to set up: provision a Redis add-on, use its environment
variable as your BROKER_URL, and you're done. But the simplicity of Redis
comes at a cost. Redis does not currently support SSL , and
it doesn't seem like that's going to change any time soon .
Because Heroku add-ons communicate over the public…
- News
- Last Updated: April 04, 2024
- Craig Kerstiens
The key to any startup is focus — focusing in multiple directions is really no focus at all. Following this premise we understand the decision by CloudBees to double down on their continuous integration offering of Jenkins, and to discontinue their platform as a service product. Continuous integration is already playing an important role in application development and deployment and will only continue to grow in the future. Many of us are fans of Jenkins, and in fact we have many Heroku customers today taking advantage of Jenkins and other CI services .
We’re also pleased to…
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