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Introducing Production Check

Entering production is a key transition in your app’s lifecycle; it signals that your app will be delivering value to end users. You are no longer optimizing for testing—you are optimizing for performance and reliability, and there are new factors to consider at this stage.

Today we’re announcing Production Check, an enhancement to the Heroku Dashboard that helps ensure that your app is ready to go to production. Production Check tests your app’s configuration …

Introducing the Europe Region, Now Available in Public Beta

Today we’re happy to announce Heroku’s Europe region, available in public beta. With more than 3 million apps running on our platform from developers all over the globe, it’s not surprising that we’ve had high demand for Heroku in more regions of the world. After collaborating closely with customers during private beta, we’re now ready to offer Heroku services in Europe to all customers as part of a public beta. The Europe region runs Heroku …

Expanded HTTP Method Support

HTTP and its secure variant, HTTPS, are the protocols used by every web client to talk to web applications. A key part of the protocol is the HTTP method. Traditionally, web applications used a very limited set of HTTP methods. It is common for application servers, proxies and routers (such as the Heroku HTTP router) to prevent unknown methods from being used. This unnecessary constraint of the Heroku HTTP router has increasingly become a …

Postgres Version 9.2 is now Default

Over a year ago we began working with the community as to how we could help to make Postgres better. Much of this came to fruition with PostgreSQL version 9.2 and three months ago we released support of Postgres 9.2 into GA. We've now seen many users begin taking advantage of the powerful features in this version including:

In these three months the 9.2 PostgreSQL …

Empowering Change: Programming Literacy for All

There has never been a better time to be a programmer. Every day more and more gadgets get connected or over-clocked. Programming is so prevalent that it often goes unnoticed in our daily lives. Whether we're scripting out social presence with IFTTT, or doing taxes with Excel, automation and programming has become an inescapable part of the modern world.

Heroku believes that to invest in our future, we must invest in programming literacy…

2X Dynos: Dyno with Twice the Capacity in Public Beta

A dyno, the unit of computing power on Heroku, is a lightweight container running a single user-specified command. Today we’re announcing a dyno with twice the capacity: 2X dynos.

Existing dynos are now called 1X dynos. They come with 512MB of memory and 1x CPU share. They cost $0.05/hr. 2X dynos are exactly what their name implies: 1GB of memory and twice the CPU share for $0.10/hr. To support the growth of current and …

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