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Today we’re making an important piece of Platform API tooling available: A machine-readable JSON schema that describes what resources are available via the API, what their URLs are, how they are represented and what operations they support. The schema opens up many interesting use cases, both for users and for us at Heroku working on improving and extending the API. A few examples are:

Auto-creating client libraries for your favorite programming language Generating up-to-date reference docs
Writing automatic acceptance and integration tests

We are already using the schema to maintain the API reference documentation on Dev Center and to generate…

Currently in beta, the Heroku Platform API lets developers automate, extend and combine the Heroku platform with other services in a programmatic, self-service way. Today we are setting the capstone into the API by adding slug and release endpoints to the API beta.

These API endpoints are special. They expose a very core part of what Heroku does best: Quickly and safely releasing new versions of an app onto the Heroku platform.

Using the new slug and release endpoints, platform developers can build integrations and services that completely sidestep the traditional Heroku Git deployment flow. So instead…

Editor's note: This is a guest post from Rikki Endsley . Rikki Endsley is a technology journalist and the USENIX Association's community manager. In the past, she worked as the associate publisher of Linux Pro Magazine, ADMIN, and Ubuntu User, and as the managing editor of Sys Admin magazine. Find her online at rikkiendsley.com and @rikkiends on Twitter.

A code of conduct is a signal to attendees that conference organizers have carefully considered the issues involved with attending events, and that they want to make their conference welcoming and safe for everyone. Heroku recently adopted an…

Last week we released a new version of our node buildpack that features dependency caching, faster downloads of the node binary, and support for any recent version of node. This new build process is now the default for all node apps on Heroku, so keep deploying your apps as you normally would and you should start to notice the speed improvements.

Faster Deployments

The new buildpack makes use of a build cache to store the node_modules directory between builds. This caching can mean dramatically reduced build times, particularly in cases where your modules include binary…

There have been thousands of reported security vulnerabilities in 2013 alone, often with language that leaves it unclear if you're affected. Heroku's job is to ensure you can focus on building your functionality, as part of that we take responsibility for the security of your app as much as we're able. On Friday, November 22nd a security vulnerability was disclosed in Ruby (MRI): CVE-2013-4164 . Our team moved quickly to identify the risk to anyone using the Heroku platform and push out a fix.

The vulnerability

The disclosed Ruby vulnerability contains a denial-of-service vector with…