Heroku Blog

Introducing pg:diagnose, a new tool for finding and fixing performance issues with your Heroku Postgres database. The heroku pg:diagnose CLI command unlocks the wealth of built-in information that PostgreSQL stores about its own health and performance, presenting it in simple report that makes identifying and correcting common database problems effortless. At Heroku, we not only run dozens of internal Postgres systems but also have the privilege of running the Postgres systems of many, many customer databases. In doing this, we've encountered and fixed every problem imaginable – and many that were previously unimaginable. Because of that, we have built up…

At Heroku, we want to make the process of deploying, running and updating code simple and easy. To that end, we’re launching the Heroku Button: a simple HTML or Markdown snippet that can be added to READMEs, blog posts and other places where code lives. Clicking a Heroku Button will take you through a guided process to configure and deploy an app running the source code referenced by the button. The best way to understand the Heroku Button is to try one. Click the example button below to deploy a Node.js sample project to an app running on your Heroku…

Today we’re announcing the general availability of the new PHP support on Heroku. The key features, in case you missed them when we outlined them in the beta announcement, include: New modern runtimes in HipHop VM Packaging and first class frameworks Heroku XL support for large scale enterprise apps We’re very happy to make this generally available for all users. Since our public beta weeks ago we’ve seen a variety of users trying many of these modern frameworks such as Laravel and Symfony, as well as work towards improving the development experience by running our own buildpack locally. In addition…