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- Last Updated: September 13, 2012
- Michelle Greer
In 2007, Los Angeles web development shop Bitscribe loved the productivity gains they found by developing using agile methodologies. What they didn’t like was the labor-intensive process necessary to deploy applications. Bitscribe principals James, Adam, and Orion decided to build a company just to solve this problem. They called it "Heroku", a combination of the words "hero" and "haiku". Hundreds of development shops from small shops like Bitscribe to large GSIs like Accenture now rely on Heroku so they can focus on building apps instead of deploying and running them. Many of these shops are now official partners. Their expertise…
- News
- Last Updated: May 16, 2024
- Mark Pundsack
A couple months ago, we launched a completely redesigned Heroku status site. Since design is important to us and, we think, to many of you, we're taking a break from our usual blog posts to dig into the Heroku approach to visual product design. Read on to experience the twists and turns on the way to the final design and let us know in the comments if you want to see more posts like this. The Premise For platform providers, a status site is a way to build trust with your customers, and in some cases, future customers. Heroku is…
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- Last Updated: April 29, 2024
- Matthew Soldo
Databases are the well known solution for storing data for your application. However they sometimes lack functionality required by application developers such as data encryption or cross database reporting. As a result developers are forced to write the needed functionality at their application layer. Postgres 9.1, which already has an extensive collection of data types and functions, took the first step towards mitigating this by creating an extension system which allows the database’s functionality to be expanded. Today we are releasing support for 16 new Postgres extensions which add exciting new functionality including the ability to query from multiple database…
- News
- Last Updated: August 02, 2012
- Craig Kerstiens
In past months we've released the public beta of our dev, basic, crane and kappa plans. We've received positive feedback from everyone using the new database plans. Based on this strong positive response and adoption during the beta, we're officially moving these plans to general availability starting today. In conjunction with the GA of our starter tier, we're deprecating our shared database plans. The new dev and basic plans offer many improvements including Postgres 9.1 with schemaless SQL, data clips, direct psql access, and a web management interface. Beginning August 8, 2012, we will begin migrating shared database users over…
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- Last Updated: July 27, 2012
- Matt Manning
We are happy to announce that our new line-up of database plans are being released on August 1st. The dev, basic, crane, and kappa plans make many of the most exciting features of our fully-managed database service available to a wider audience. They are now ready for all users. We will also begin billing for these plans as of August 1st. If you have been beta testing one of these databases and do not wish to incur charges for it going forward, please remove it immediately via the web interface or the command line: heroku addons:remove HEROKU_POSTGRESQL_COLOR –app app_name If…
- News
- Last Updated: April 12, 2024
- Matthew Soldo
We are happy to announce that our new line-up of database plans are being released on August 1st. The dev, basic, crane, and kappa plans make many of the most exciting features of our fully-managed database service available to a wider audience. They are now ready for all users. We will also begin billing for these plans as of August 1st. If you have been beta testing one of these databases and do not wish to incur charges for it going forward, please remove it immediately via the web interface or the command line: heroku addons:remove HEROKU_POSTGRESQL_COLOR –app app_name If…
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