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- Last Updated: November 06, 2012
- Courtney Correll
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.
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…
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- Last Updated: November 05, 2012
- Richard Schneeman
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.
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…
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 .
- News
- Last Updated: October 25, 2012
- Craig Kerstiens
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 read…
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- Last Updated: October 16, 2012
- Matthew Soldo
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…
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- Last Updated: October 15, 2012
- David Baliles
The original version of the Heroku command-line tool was available as a Ruby gem. This made it easy to install on all platforms with just one command: gem install heroku. While we love this simplicity, it depends on a system install of Rubygems. To get this experience on widely varying development environments, we created the Heroku Toolbelt , a one-click installer for every major platform.
Going forward we will be sunsetting support for the heroku gem in favor of the Toolbelt. If you're already using the Toolbelt, you're fine to stop…
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