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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…

We continuously use support data to identify high impact issues in our platform. Over the past couple of weeks in July, we reduced the volume of support inquiries related to Heroku Postgres by over a third — even as overall usage of the product increased. In this post, we'll tell you that story and a bit about how we do support here at Heroku.

Identifying High-Impact Support Issues

The way we approach customer support at Heroku is two-fold. On the surface, we’re here to answer your questions and help you fix issues with your apps.…

On July 31st, our customer advocate team presented the second webcast in a two-part series on production apps on Heroku. In case you missed it, the recording and slides are below. This second session is designed for an audience familiar with Heroku basics and covers:

Using a CDN to increase app performance
How to manage the asset pipeline
Using heroku-pg-extras to gain visibility into database performance
How to manage database migrations
How to use a database follower for transactional and analytics database reads
How to set up caching with Heroku add-ons
Useful labs features

Optimizing production apps on heroku 7.31.13 from …

When you sign into Heroku from your browser, you’re in the Heroku Dashboard . Dashboard is a personalized, interactive command center for all of your apps on Heroku. It provides simple visibility and management for app status, activity, resources, add-ons, collaborators, and other critical aspects of your app. You can also use it to manage all information about your Heroku account – from SSH keys to past invoices. In this post, we take a quick tour through Dashboard and some of its recent new features, including production check and notifications.

Everything About Your Apps

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Heroku Fork and the heroku sharing command have been deprecated. For more information on releases and rollbacks, make sure to check out the Dev Center .

Heroku tools let you create robust, healthy workflows for your apps, from development to production to ongoing delivery. Add other developers to your app with heroku sharing , create homogeneous staging and production apps with heroku fork , and quickly deploy directly from staging to production with pipelines .

Deploying quickly and often is awesome, but with multiple developers and multiple deployments each day, how do you…

In May, we launched the beta Heroku Platform API – making it possible to automate, extend and combine the Heroku platform with other services in a programmatic, self-service way. As of today, OAuth 2.0 support for the Platform API is available in public beta.

With OAuth support, developers building integrations and services that use the Heroku API can provide a much better experience to their users. Instead of requesting full access to user accounts, access requests can be scoped to just the information and control a service needs. Instead of using one API key for all third-party services,…