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Until now, Heroku Status has been focused primarily on present platform health – providing current status, uptime for the current month, and recent incident history. Today we're announcing an addition to our status site: a dedicated page to view historical uptime . The new uptime page provides a longer-term perspective on Heroku uptime and incidents – perspective that is critical for transparency and continued trust in the Heroku platform.

The new uptime page covers both the US and Europe regions for visibility into uptime where your apps are hosted. This was a top-requested feature with the recent launch…

Whether you’re building your initial prototype or running a large scale profitable business, there will be times where you will have questions about building, maintaining, or troubleshooting your application. One of our goals is to help make your business successful by empowering you to build quality software with best practices, clear documentation on a stable erosion-resistant platform. When in doubt, there are several channels here at Heroku available to help you get the support you need.

Getting Started

Brand new to development or just new to Heroku there’s a place for you in the…

The new Heroku platform API is out in public beta . Come join our API team for an API Hack-a-thon on June 20th at Heavybit Industries (9th and Folsom) for an in-depth look. Doors open at 6:00p.

This hack-a-thon is not a competition, but an in-depth look at the beta release – a chance for you to ask questions and provide feedback to the Heroku API team.

Heroku’s API lead, Wesley Beary , will start the evening with a live presentation on the design and possibilities of the platform API. We will then have until 10:00p to…

Each year, more than 5,000 iOS and Mac developers from over 50 different countries gather at Moscone Center West for Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference , or WWDC. It's the one week developers get to learn about all of the shiny new devices and APIs that they'll use to make their next great apps.

Heroku is excited to be sponsoring and organizing a great lineup of events next week:

AltWWDC Labs

For anyone who didn't get a ticket to the main event this year or is looking for a change of pace from…

Thousands of Heroku customers have already updated their apps to utilize 2X dynos since they entered public beta on April 5. By providing twice the memory and CPU share, 2X dynos help to improve app performance and efficiency.

2X Dynos enter General Availability today. Starting tomorrow, June 1, 2013, 2X dynos will be billed at the full $0.10 per hour rate.

Heroku customers have used 2X dynos to solve a number of problems:

1. Concurrency for Rails with Unicorn – Rails apps see significant performance improvements using Unicorn. In-dyno queuing allows requests…