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- Last Updated: November 07, 2013
- Craig Kerstiens
Several weeks ago we added support for Postgres 9.3 in public beta the day it was released to the community. We've had many customers use it so far and it has proven to be robust and reliable. Early adopters have started to take advantage of the great new features in this version including: New JSON functions and operators Foreign data wrappers And more Today we're excited to release Postgres 9.3 in General Availability and setting it as the default version when provisioning a new Heroku Postgres database. Defaulting to the latest version of Postgres ensures our customers can make use…
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- Last Updated: April 24, 2024
- Sara Dornsife
As we previously announced, salesforce.com is hosting a $1 Million Hackathon for the most awesome mobile app built using Salesforce Platform, which includes Heroku. It's taking place now and culminates at Dreamforce in San Francisco. For a limited time we are making it FREE ($99 value) to participate in the Salesforce $1 Million Hackathon. Sign up for the Hacker Pass and you will get access to the Hackathon plus all the great content and activities in the Developer Zone at Dreamforce. Additionally, the first 500 people to use the promo code HEROKU when registering will receive a $200 Heroku credit…
- News
- Last Updated: April 24, 2024
- Sara Dornsife
How would you like to win $1 million in a hackathon? Seriously. As you know, Heroku is part of the Salesforce Platform. A platform with a growing developer community and broad range of technologies that developers have used to create amazing solutions. So at Salesforce, we thought we’d cook up a little surprise. OK, a huge surprise: the world’s first hackathon with a single $1 million prize. It’s on. Come to Dreamforce. Build a next generation mobile app. And win a million bucks. Really. What better way to say thank you to our developers than to put on the biggest…
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- Last Updated: April 02, 2024
- Katie Boysen
Editor's Note: This is a guest post from Hursh Agrawal, co-founder of Branch. At Branch, we’ve been through several feature launches on Branch and, more recently, several more on our new site, Potluck. Although it becomes easier, building high-quality, high-traffic web applications still isn’t easy. Here are a few things we’ve learned about hosting our apps on Heroku that have helped keep our latency down and our confidence up. Building on Heroku One thing that has been consistently helpful is not hosting services ourselves. Heroku provides a pretty extensive Add-on Marketplace you can use to get most services you’d need…
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- Last Updated: October 16, 2013
- Craig Kerstiens
There are two axes of database monitoring. One axis is immediate insight. You can see what is happening right now, getting just-in-time visibility to solve problems and observe production behavior as it happens. The other axis is historical monitoring. This provides long-term persistence and reporting on the most important metrics over time, helping you make better decisions and understand trends. With Heroku Postgres, you can get immediate insight with the pg-extras CLI plugin. Furthermore, we provide key metrics about your database right in your logs already for all applications. For storage and reporting of your most important metrics, you can…
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- Last Updated: March 28, 2024
- Jake Vorreuter
We’re excited to announce that WebSocket functionality is now available on Heroku in public beta. We can’t wait to see the powerful and creative real-time apps you’ll build. In this post, we show how to get up and running with WebSockets and demonstrate the functionality with two sample apps you can get on GitHub. Editor’s Note: WebSockets support is now Generally Available. The heroku labs:enable websockets command is no longer required for the example app below. Getting Started For full documentation of WebSocket support on Heroku, visit the Dev Center. WebSocket functionality is available as part of Heroku Labs. First…
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