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Cedar Goes GA

As of today, the Cedar stack is now in general availability. Cedar features a streamlined HTTP stack allowing for advanced HTTP capabilities, heroku run for execution of arbitrary one-off dynos, Procfile and the process model for execution of any type of worker process. Most importantly, Cedar is a polyglot platform with official support for Clojure, Java, Node.js, Python, Ruby, and Scala, and extensibility for unlimited others via buildpacks. The Dev Center team has spent the last few months “Cedar-izing” our developer documentation, so now most articles describe use of Heroku on the Cedar platform. Cedar is the most powerful, performant,…

New Heroku Status Site

Developers like you deploy code to hundreds of thousands of apps every month on the Heroku platform. Some of these are production apps which serve hundreds of millions or even billions of requests per month. Uptime of the platform is critical for such apps. We want to achieve the sustained reliability that these apps require. But when there are incidents that impact uptime, we want to maximize our transparency and accountability to you and all developers on the platform. Today, we’re launching a completely redesigned status.heroku.com, which provides real-time status of the platform, the ability to sign up for email…

SSL Endpoint GA

Earlier this month we released the public beta of an improved SSL solution, SSL Endpoint. We've received positive feedback from everyone using the new SSL solution. Based on this strong positive response and adoption during the beta, we're officially moving SSL Endpoint to general availability starting today. It is now the recommended option for any app which needs SSL on a custom domain. In conjunction with SSL Endpoint's GA status, we're consolidating and simplifying our SSL product lineup by deprecating all of the older SSL add-ons: SNI, Hostname SSL, and IP SSL. SSL Endpoint is easier to use, more robust,…

Multiple Ruby Version Support on Heroku

Maximizing parity between development and production environments is a best practice for minimizing surprises at deployment time. The version of language VM you're using is no exception. One approach to this is to specify it using the same dependency management tool used to specify the versions of libraries your app uses. Clojure uses this technique with Leinigen, Scala with SBT, and Node.js with NPM. In each case, Heroku reads the dependency file during slug compile and uses the version of the language that you specify. Today, we're pleased to announce that we've added support for specifying a Ruby version to…

Crane: Heroku’s new $50 per month production database

Last week we launched our dev plan, a free database designed for development and testing. Today, we are launching into public beta two new plans: Crane and Kappa. These plans are part of our production tier, offering the same monitoring, operations, support, and data protection features as our more expensive plans. Crane is available for $50 per month and features a 400 mb cache. Kappa is $100 per month and features a 800 mb cache. They can be provisioned immediately via the Heroku Postgres addon page or via our command line tool: $ heroku addons:add heroku-postgresql:crane Use Cases Crane and…

Announcing Better SSL For Your App

SSL is a crucial part of any web app with a login session. As Firesheep demonstrated, HTTPS everywhere is the path forward for modern web apps. Heroku follows this with our own login-protected apps, from the management interface to the Dev Center. Announcing Better SSL For Your App Today, we're announcing two new features to make it as easy as possible for you to secure your app running on Heroku with SSL. First, all apps now have piggyback SSL by default. Prepend https to the hostname for any Heroku app (https://yourapp.herokuapp.com for Cedar and https://yourapp.heroku.com for Aspen/Bamboo) and you'll piggyback…

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