Heroku Blog

We’re excited to announce that WebSocket functionality is now available on Heroku in public beta. We can’t wait to see the powerful and creative real-time apps you’ll build. In this post, we show how to get up and running with WebSockets and demonstrate the functionality with two sample apps you can get on GitHub.

Editor’s Note: WebSockets support is now Generally Available. The heroku labs:enable websockets command is no longer required for the example …

Heroku is now using Extended Validation SSL Certificates for most of our Heroku-owned applications. This allows you to tell at a glance if an URL belongs to Heroku itself, or is merely hosted on us.

Applications in our legacy “Bamboo” stack are hosted under the heroku.com DNS domain, which has historically made it difficult for people to differentiate between Heroku-owned apps (e.g., id.heroku.com, dashboard.heroku.com) and customer applications. We believe the extra UI indication will prove …

Heroku Postgres is Heroku’s database-as-a-service product. With Heroku Postgres, you can easily provision and scale a Postgres database for your Heroku application, or as a stand-alone service. Recently, we’ve blogged about PostgreSQL 9.3 on Heroku and how you can use Heroku Postgres dataclips to build awesome business dashboards with your data. In this post, we talk about how Heroku Postgres delivers continuous protection for your business data using WAL-E, an open source application for archiving …

Editor's note: This is a guest post from Michael Buckbee of Meta/SpaceGlasses.

SpaceGlasses are augmented reality glasses that actually work. They let people control systems with a gesture, see virtual objects on top of the real world and create technology that would make Tony Stark proud.

Prior to joining Meta, I had developed and managed a number of high traffic Rails sites. I was brought on to help move the company’s website from a single …