Heroku Blog
- Engineering
- Last Updated: May 09, 2024
- David Murray
One of our most important goals at Heroku is to be boring. Don’t get us wrong, we certainly hope that you’re excited about the Heroku developer experience — as heavy users of Heroku ourselves, we certainly are! But, even more so, we hope that you don’t have to spend all that much time thinking about Heroku. We want you to be able to spend your time thinking about the awesome, mission-critical things you’re building with Heroku, rather than worrying about the security, reliability, or performance of the underlying infrastructure they run on. Keeping Heroku “boring” enough to be trusted with…
- News
- Last Updated: May 08, 2024
- Ethan Limchayseng
Introduction: We’re excited to announce public beta support for HTTP/2 on both Heroku Common Runtime and Private Spaces. HTTP/2 support is one of the most requested and desired improvements for the Heroku platform. HTTP/2 is significantly faster than HTTP 1.1 by introducing features like multiplexing and header compression to reduce latency and therefore improve the end-user experience of Heroku apps. Since 2023, we’ve been working on a large platform modernization of our Common Runtime router. This project will allow us to start delivering more modern networking for Heroku. With the majority of that work now complete, we’re excited to focus…
- Engineering
- Last Updated: April 29, 2024
- Julián Duque
If you’re an API developer working with Node.js, then you’re probably familiar with Express. But have you tried out the Fastify framework to build with power, speed, and convenience? In this walkthrough, we build a full-featured, easy-to-consume API with Fastify. And we deploy it to the cloud with ease. We show you how to: Get started working with Fastify to build an API Implement API authentication by using a JSON web token (JWT) Use Fastify’s Swagger plugins to generate an OpenAPI specification Consume the OpenAPI specification with Postman, giving you an API client that can send requests seamlessly to your…
- Engineering
- Last Updated: April 09, 2024
- Mars Hall
For developers and businesses offering a web-based product, automated browser testing is a critical tool to ensure continuous delivery of a reliable service. Developers write browser tests by scripting actions against a real browser, simulating real usage by navigating, selecting, and making assertions about web pages and their document elements. In this post, we introduce a new community buildpack that helps with automated browser testing. The new buildpack resolves installation reliability problems in the existing Chrome browser buildpacks for Heroku apps. Browser Testing on Heroku Developers can manually run browser tests on their machines to support writing and debugging tests.…
- News
- Last Updated: April 05, 2024
- Vivek Viswanathan, Vinil Jain
Add-on Controls for Heroku Teams At Heroku, trust and security are top priorities and we’ve been steadily adding more security controls to the platform. Recently, we launched SSO for Heroku Teams, and today, we’re excited to announce more enhancements for teams: add-on controls. Previously, this feature was only available to Heroku Enterprise customers. The Elements Marketplace has add-ons built by our partners that help teams accelerate app development on Heroku. Add-ons can interact with your team’s data and apps, so it’s important to manage and audit which add-ons your team uses. Enabling add-on controls helps keep your data and apps…
- Engineering
- Last Updated: March 28, 2024
- Julián Duque
How to connect your GPT on OpenAI to a backend Node.js app Late in 2023, OpenAI introduced GPTs, a way for developers to build customized versions of ChatGPT that can bundle in specialized knowledge, follow preset instructions, or perform actions like reaching out to external APIs. As more and more businesses and individuals use ChatGPT, developers are racing to build powerful GPTs to ride the wave of ChatGPT adoption. Source If you’re thinking about diving into GPT development, we’ve got some good news: Building a powerful GPT mostly involves building an API that handles a few endpoints. And in this…
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