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Hacking mruby onto Heroku

If you're in the Ruby world, you've likely heard about mruby, Matz's latest experimental Ruby implementation. What I bet you didn't know is that you can run mruby on Heroku right now. As a matter of fact you can run just anything on Heroku, as long as it can compile it into a binary on a Linux box. If you're new to mruby, or to compiling binaries take a look at my last article Try mruby Today. I cover getting mruby up and running on your local machine. If you are already up to speed then follow along as we…

Waza 2013

Waza Returns to San Francisco in February 2013 Heroku's developer event, Waza, returns on Thursday, February 28th, 2013 to the Concourse in San Francisco. What is Waza? Waza (技) is the Japanese word for art and technique. At Heroku, we believe that software development is a craft. Building modern technologies that engage and inspire is an art, with techniques shared, passed on, and honed in the process of creation. Waza is an event where developers can find inspiration – about what’s happening in technology, what’s happening at Heroku, how people are thinking about the future, and how the landscape of…

Ruby 2.0 Preview Available on Heroku

When Heroku first launched you could only use one version of Ruby: 1.8.6. As the Ruby implementation matured and improved, so did Heroku. We recently announced the ability to specify your ruby version on Heroku, and we are happy to announce the first preview-build of Ruby available: starting today you can use Ruby 2.0 preview1 on Heroku. Ruby 2.0 The Ruby core team has been hard at work on Ruby 2.0, which has a host of new features and boasts performance improvements. You can get a list of the major new features on the official Ruby 2.0.0 Preview1 announcement. Heroku…

Heroku Postgres Releases Follow into GA

Today Heroku Postgres is releasing the ability to Follow your database General Availability: this lets you easily create multiple read-only asynchronous replicas of your database, known as followers. Followers enable some great use cases: Easy read traffic scaling Fast upgrades Higher availability Read more about this exciting feature on the Heroku Blog.

Announcing Follow

Today we’re releasing the ability to follow your Heroku Postgres Database into General Availability: this lets you easily create multiple read-only asynchronous replicas of your database, known as followers. After an extended beta period during which over 3,000 followers were created, many of which help power core Heroku systems, we’re excited to make the ability to safely and easily scale out access to your data available to all Heroku Postgres users. Followers enable some great use cases: Easy read traffic scaling Fast upgrades Higher availability One use case that has historically been challenging in database management is setting up a…

Heroku Office Hours, Wed 10/17 at 3pm PDT

This Wednesday 10/17 from 3-5pm we will be holding office hours for customers and users in our San Francisco office. This is an opportunity for you to come meet us and ask questions about developing your apps on Heroku. It is an opportunity for us to learn more about you and your needs. Heroku engineers, product managers, and designers will be available to chat with you about your code, application, business, or whatever else you want. Maybe you're a new user, and have some getting started questions. Perhaps you've been using Heroku for ages and have a high level architectural…

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