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- Last Updated: March 21, 2013
- Dana Oshiro
When we think of the concept of Waza (技) or "art and technique," it's easy to get caught up in the idea of individual mastery. It's true that works of art are often created by those with great skill, but acquiring that skill is neither solitary nor static. Generations of masters contribute to a canon and it is in that spirit that we built the Heroku platform and the Waza event. This year's Waza was no exception.
On February 28th, more than 900 attendees participated in Waza including Ruby founder Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto , Django co-creator Jacob Kaplan-Moss…
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- Last Updated: April 05, 2024
- Adam Wiggins
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If you’re building a customer-facing web app or mobile back-end, performance is a critical part of user experience. Fast is a feature, and affects everything from conversion rates to your site’s search ranking .
The first step in performance tuning is getting visibility into the app’s web performance in production. For this, we turn to the app’s logs.
There are many ways to collect metrics, the most common being direct instrumentation into the app. New Relic , Librato , and Hosted Graphite are…
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- Last Updated: March 14, 2013
- Oren Teich
On February 16th, we published a blog post outlining five specific and immediate actions we would take to improve our Rails customers' experience with Heroku. We want to provide you with an update on where these things stand. As a reminder, here’s what we committed to do:
Improve our documentation so that it accurately reflects how our service works across both Bamboo and Cedar stacks
Remove incorrect and confusing metrics reported by Heroku or partner services like New Relic
Add metrics that let customers determine queuing impact on application response times
Provide additional tools that developers can use to augment our latency…
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- Last Updated: March 10, 2013
- Craig Kerstiens
The value of a network is proportional to the square of the number of users connected to the system, according to Metcalfe’s law. Jacob Kaplan-Moss , co-creator of Django , highlights this as a value in creating communities or as he puts it, “ecosystems”. In his talk at Waza last week on building ecosystems, he went on to highlight three key principles of creating ecosystems:
APIs to support extensibility
Conservatism as a value
Empowering the community
Whether building a platform or a framework, these key principles ring true. Check out his talk or read more on creating ecosystems below:
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- Last Updated: March 07, 2013
- Craig Kerstiens
Matz , the creator of Ruby, spoke at Waza for the 20th anniversary of the language and the release of Ruby 2.0 . If you weren't in the sold out crowd, not to worry. Information should flow free and experiences should be shared; in line with those concepts you can watch Matz's talk right here, then read about what's new in this version of Ruby and how to run it on Heroku.
With slides available on speakerdeck
Keep reading for more information on Ruby 2.0 or check out our first batch of videos…
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- Last Updated: February 28, 2013
- Craig Kerstiens
Great coders know their technology intimately. And they know how to choose it. Truly awesome application developers know more. They know the human side of technology. They know technique. They focus on their method—their practice.
In 2000 Heroku co-founder and CTO Adam Wiggins saw this more clearly than ever before. He read The Pragmatic Programmer by Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas . The book, as Adam explains in this thought-provoking (and method-shifting) Waza talk, showed him that his work could not only be about technology. It HAD to be about technique.
Heroku Co-founder, CTO and general badass,…
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