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The new PHP on Heroku now Generally Available

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…

Using force.com from your Heroku apps

Force.com and Heroku are both part of the Salesforce1 platform. There are lots of great ways to leverage force.com from your Heroku app. This article will give an overview and pointers to get you started. Heroku Connect The easiest way to link force.com and Heroku is to use our two-way data synchronization service Heroku Connect. This point-and-click service lets you synchronize data from force.com into the Postgres database attached to your Heroku app. You can read and write data directly in Postgres, and changes are automatically synchronized with force.com. Note that Heroku Connect moves data asynchronously. This means that when…

WebSockets now Generally Available

WebSocket support was introduced as a Labs feature last year, and we went through extensive testing and a number of technical iterations to improve performance and to provide a predictable compliance target. Thanks to great interaction with the community and early feature users, we now have a fast and robust solution available in production. Why WebSockets WebSockets provide bi-directional and full-duplex channels, allowing you to create applications with support for streaming, flexible protocols, and persistent connections. Getting Started with New Apps If you are creating a new application on Heroku, there is no need to enable WebSockets or to configure…

Faster Database forking

Did you know that Heroku databases can be forked? Forking a database creates a byte-for-byte copy that can be used for testing and development. It is a useful tool that allows teams to be agile with their data. Today, forking databases is becoming faster. Fast forking reduces the time to create a fork by hours for high transaction database. To quickly fork a database, simply add the –fast flag: $ heroku addons:add heroku-postgresql:crane –fork BLUE –fast Fast forks behave differently from regular forks. They take less time to create, but the data will be somewhat out-of-date (as much as 30…

Introducing the app.json Application Manifest

Developers want to spend less time setting up applications and start working with the code sooner. Setting up applications is error-prone, time consuming and interruptive to the development flow. Often, there are several steps to go from your code or other samples and templates that you find in repositories online, to a running application that you can continue to work on. Today, we are excited to introduce the app.json manifest. app.json enables developers to define their applications' details, setup configurations and runtime environments in a structured way. Instead of providing step-by-step instructions, you can now add app.json files to your…

Introducing programmatic builds on Heroku

Today, we are announcing an important addition to the Heroku Platform API: The /apps/:app/builds endpoint. This endpoint exposes the Heroku slug compilation process as a simple API primitive. You can use the endpoint to turn any publicly hosted source-tarball into a slug running on a Heroku app in seconds. Here’s output from a Go program that invokes the new endpoint: $ ./build -app limitless-fjord-5604 -archive https://github.com/heroku/node-js-sample/archive/master.tar.gz ……… —–> Node.js app detected —–> Requested node range: 0.10.x —–> Resolved node version: 0.10.28 —–> Downloading and installing node … $ curl http://limitless-fjord-5604.herokuapp.com/ Hello World! Here’s what is going on: an app name…

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