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Heroku Postgres Databases Patched

Heroku Postgres Databases have been patched

Data is one of the most valuable assets of any company. As a database-as-a-service provider, one of our biggest responsibilities is ensuring your data is kept safe. A few weeks ago, one of the worst security vulnerabilities to date in PostgreSQL was discovered. To address this issue, Heroku deployed a point release upgrade across the entire Heroku Postgres service earlier this week. This resulted in a period of …

Routing and Web Performance on Heroku: a FAQ

Hi. I’m Adam Wiggins, cofounder and CTO of Heroku.

Heroku has been my life’s work. Millions of apps depend on us, and I take that responsibility very personally.

Recently, Heroku has faced criticism from the hacker community about how our HTTP router works, and about web performance on the platform in general. I’ve read all the public discussions, and have spent a lot of time over the past month talking with our customers about this …

Helios – open source framework for mobile

Heroku has a strong tradition with open source projects. Engineers have dedicated countless hours to the projects that developers count on every day. Open Source Software is in our DNA.

Speaking personally, I’m passionate about building tools like AFNetworking and cupertino, in order to help developers build insanely great experiences for mobile devices. It’s with great pleasure that I introduce something new I’ve been working on:

Helios is an open-source framework that provides essential …

Waza 2013: How Ecosystems Build Mastery

When we think of the concept of Waza (技) or “art and technique,” it’s easy to get caught up in the idea of individual mastery. It’s true that works of art are often created by those with great skill, but acquiring that skill is neither solitary nor static. Generations of masters contribute to a canon and it is in that spirit that we built the Heroku platform and the Waza event. This year’s Waza was …

log2viz: Logs as Data for Performance Visibility

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If you’re building a customer-facing web app or mobile back-end, performance is a critical part of user experience. Fast is a feature, and affects everything from conversion rates to your site’s search ranking.

The first step in performance tuning is getting visibility into the app’s web performance in production. For this, we turn to the app’s logs.

Logs as data

There are many ways to collect metrics, …

Running Rails on Heroku Update

On February 16th, we published a blog post outlining five specific and immediate actions we would take to improve our Rails customers' experience with Heroku. We want to provide you with an update on where these things stand. As a reminder, here’s what we committed to do:

  1. Improve our documentation so that it accurately reflects how our service works across both Bamboo and Cedar stacks
  2. Remove incorrect and confusing metrics reported by Heroku or partner
    3. …

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