Heroku Blog
- News
- Last Updated: August 05, 2014
- Rand Arete
At Heroku, we’re focused on delivering thoughtfully designed systems to improve developer productivity and experience. We firmly believe that improving the development and operations experience helps developers to build and run better apps. This improvement allows developers to focus more on functionality, and businesses to focus more on the value of their applications.
Today we are pleased to announce two new features, both in public beta, that support this mission: a new Heroku Dashboard and …
- News
- Last Updated: July 12, 2024
- Margaret Francis
In May we released the first version of Heroku Connect, a service that makes it easy to build Heroku apps that share data with your Salesforce deployment.
Today we released our first major update to the service, bringing new speed and scale enhancements to all Heroku Connect users. Together, these enhancements lower latency on Heroku Connect synchronization, provide developers with more granular controls and improve insight into their Force.com API utilization.
- Engineering
- Last Updated: March 28, 2024
- Scott Persinger
Heroku Connect is a service offered by Heroku which performs 2-way data synchronization between Salesforce and a Heroku Postgres database.
When we first built Heroku Connect, we decided to use polling to determine when data had changed on either side. Polling isn’t pretty, but its simple and reliable, and those are “top line” features for Heroku Connect. But polling incurs two significant costs: high latency and wasted resources. The more you poll the more you waste API calls and database queries checking when there are no data changes. But if you lengthen your polling interval then you grow the latency for the data synchronization.
- News
- Last Updated: July 15, 2014
- Craig Kerstiens
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 …
- Engineering
- Last Updated: April 24, 2024
- Scott Persinger
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.
- News
- Last Updated: March 28, 2024
- Rand Arete
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.
WebSockets provide bi-directional and full-duplex channels, allowing you to create applications with support for streaming, flexible protocols, and …
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