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Postgres 9.3 Beta Available with New JSON Datatype

With each new release, Postgres brings new powerful functionality to your fingertips – Postgres 9.3 is shaping up to be no different. Postgres 9.3 will include richer JSON operators for the JSON datatype, SQL-standard LATERAL subquery support, materialized views, and of course much more. Postgres 9.3 Beta was made available earlier this week and we’re excited to announce a public alpha of it ourselves.

You can get started immediately with the alpha …

Database Insight with pg-extras

When building your application there's a lot to worry about, from choice of framework and stack to designing the application itself, to questions of when to worry about scalability. Your database shouldn't have to be one extra layer of concern. You should be able to put data in, trust it will stay safe, and finally get data back out – in a performant manner. Yet, with all the moving parts in your application, understanding issues …

Fork Your Apps at Heroku Europe’s London Fork-a-thon

On 15 May, join Heroku for the London Fork-a-thon, a hack-a-thon-like event (hands-on and live coding), where Heroku engineers will be available to answer any questions you might have regarding Heroku in Europe, and to help you to fork your app to the Europe region.

Heroku just announced the release of the Heroku Europe region in public beta. The Europe region runs apps from datacenters located in Europe and offers increased performance for customers located …

Networking Update Improves Isolation and Performance

Today we’re announcing a change to how networking on Heroku works. Dynos now get a dedicated, virtual networking interface instead of sharing a network interface with other dynos. This makes dynos behave more like standard unix containers resulting in better compatibility with application frameworks and better parity between development and production environments.

Background

Previously, network interfaces were shared between multiple dynos. This weakened the abstraction of a dyno as a standard Unix-style container with …

Building Location Based Apps with Heroku PostGIS

Smartphones have changed the world – everyone has a device in their pocket that’s constantly connected to the internet and knows where you are. Combined with the rise of digital mapping it has become commonplace to build applications that use GIS (Geographical Information Systems) to digitally represent our physical reality and our location in it. Storing and manipulating geospatial data has become an essential part of application development. If you are building a mobile app …

Come and Meet The Heroku Team at RailsConf 2013

Developers are worthy of great experiences and at Heroku we aim to help improve this. Whether its making it easier to prepare your application for production on Heroku, not having to worry about security updates in your database, or getting notified of the latest rails vulnerability we want to make the world better for developers. This extends beyond the Heroku platform as well. For instance, our Ruby Task Force contributes back to projects like …

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