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Starting today, Heroku would like to publicly thank all the independent security researchers who have practiced responsible disclosure and helped us remediate issues. The Heroku Security Researcher Hall of Fame lists these researchers, along with the date of their initial report. If you've found a new security issue on our platform, we'd love to hear from you. Our intent is for this list to be comprehensive, going back to our beginning. If you’ve reported a vulnerability to us in the past, and you’re either not listed or you’d like your listing changed (e.g., typos, change a link) or removed entirely,…

At Heroku, we’ve had the privilege of running and managing millions of amazing apps built by our users. Over a year ago, Heroku co-founder Adam Wiggins published the Twelve-Factor App, based directly on these experiences. It distills best practices for building modern cloud applications into a 12-factor methodology specifically designed to maximize developer productivity and application maintainability. Twelve Factor apps are built for agility and rapid deployment, enabling continuous delivery and reducing the time and cost for new developers to join a project. At the same time, they are architected to exploit the principles of modern cloud platforms while permitting…

Sharing your app’s status is critical for communicating and building trust with your users – whether it’s down for maintenance, experiencing problems with service providers, suffering from interruptions or performance problems, or up and running perfectly. Here at Heroku, we accomplish this with Heroku Status. But today, we’re introducing our first add-on that makes it easy to communicate app status with users of your app – StatusPage, now in public beta. StatusPage lets you build your own branded status page so you can share status information and public metrics about your app while also providing highly-available downtime communication. Enable the…

Throughout the year we participate in a lot of conferences, hackathons, meet-ups, educational programs, and open source projects. At each and every one, we are inspired by the accomplishments, projects, and people we get to meet there. We welcome the opportunity to talk to you about your projects, answer your questions and share some awesome Heroku swag. If you see us at an event, please stop by and say "Hi." Each month you can find out where Heroku will be by going to our events page, on Twitter, or on Facebook where you can also see where we've been. So…

Heroku Postgres brings the Heroku flow to your database, offering safe and straightforward provisioning, scaling, development and collaboration. Traditionally, generating and sharing data from within databases has been inconvenient and challenging. What if you could safely and easily capture and share the data you need to drive your business? Dataclips, available on all Heroku Postgres production and starter databases, let you run SQL queries against your data and share the results in an easy, visual way with your team members. Dataclips can be downloaded or shared via URLs, are downloadable and exportable in many formats, and are executed via a…