Heroku Blog
Today, we’re announcing the release of a key part of our authentication infrastructure – id.heroku.com – under the MIT license. This is the service that accepts passwords on login and manages all things OAuth for our API. The repo is now world-readable at https://github.com/heroku/identity . Pull requests welcome.
While OAuth was originally designed to allow service providers to delegate some access on behalf of a customer to a third party, and we do use it …
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- Last Updated: June 03, 2024
- Sara Dornsife
Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Rikki Endsley.
In this exclusive interview, iOS developer Mattt Thompson opens up about the moment when he realized he’d become a programmer, why he dropped his computer science classes, and what he does AFK.
Had Mattt Thompson followed in his parents’ footsteps, he’d be a musician now instead of a well-known iOS developer working as the Mobile Lead at Heroku. Matthew “Mattt” Thomas Thompson was …
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- Last Updated: November 11, 2013
- Craig Kerstiens
Today we're excited to announce an evolution of what it means to be a database as a service provider. Along with new features such as the ability to roll back your database to an arbitrary point in time and high availability, we now provide an entirely new level of operational expertise that's built right in. This new level of service allows you to feel at ease while taking advantage of your database in ways you …
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- Last Updated: November 08, 2013
- Fred Hebert
Adventures of a Heroku Routing Engineer
My name is Fred and I spend most of my time on Logplex. Since joining Heroku in March 2013, I’ve become the main developer on that product and handle most of the maintenance and support that goes with it. In this post, I’ll explain what the Heroku routing team needed to do to make Logplex more stable, decrease our workload, and keep our mornings quiet and productive.
I’m …
- News
- 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:
Today we're excited to release Postgres 9.3 in General Availability and setting …
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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 …
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