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Editor's Note: The version of Pipelines described in this blog post has been deprecated and replaced by a new non-labs implementation. Features added through Heroku Labs are experimental and may change or be removed without notice.

heroku fork lets you create unique, running instances of existing applications in a single command, making it fast and simple to set up homogenous development, staging and production environments. But have you ever wished you could deploy …

Heroku Add-ons are services exposed through the Heroku platform. They are managed by experts, provisioned and scaled in a single command, and consumed by your application as loosely coupled components. This post provides an overview of Add-ons for logging, persistence, caching and monitoring in production apps.

Logging

heroku addons:add papertrail

Logs provide the foundation for trend analysis, error inspection, performance tuning and other processes critical for running production apps. Heroku routes and collates real-time logs …

Heroku Fork has been deprecated. See the GitHub repo for the Fork CLI plugin for details.

An application is more than source code – it’s executables, generated assets, runtime environments, dependencies, configuration, running processes, backing services and more. What if you could fork your entire app, not just your code?

heroku fork lets you create unique, running instances of existing applications right from the command line. These instances are live and available on Heroku immediately …

Earlier this month, we quietly rolled out a new design for our monthly invoices. It’s a breath of fresh air compared to the previous iteration, and we thought it would be interesting to share what goes into a design like this.

At Heroku, billing is complex. Dyno hours are calculated to the second. Add-ons are calculated based on each provider’s pricing plan, which can be monthly or by usage depending on the add-on. There are …

When talking to Heroku users, a question that frequently comes up is “when do my apps go to sleep, and why?”. Though the behavior is documented in Dev Center, we’d like to provide more immediate visibility into the state of your apps at any given moment.

When Do Apps Sleep?

When an app on Heroku has an Eco web dyno, and that dyno receives no web traffic in a 30-minute period, it sleeps. …

Heroku provides an opinionated platform in order to help you build better applications. We give you a default version of Ruby to get you started, and give you a way to declare your version for total control. In the past creating an application would give you 1.9.2, starting today the default is 2.0.0.

Ruby 2.0.0 is fast, stable, and works out of the box with Rails 4. Applications running on 2.0.0 will have a longer …