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- Last Updated: February 08, 2012
- Harold Giménez
At the Heroku Department of Data, we are always investigating ways to improve the reliability, security and performance of your database servers. We do this by monitoring the entire ecosystem around it; we monitor the reliability of the platform itself, as well as keeping a close eye on the hardware where your data is hosted on upstream servers. But this also includes listening to the community. We do that by staying involved with our users at developer meetups and hackfests, listening closely to support requests to find and resolve common patterns of pain, as well as any relevant mailing lists.…
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- Last Updated: January 20, 2012
- Adam Wiggins
InfoWorld has named Heroku as a 2012 Technology of the Year. While we're not normally much for industry awards, we feel honored to be included alongside past winners such as the iPad, Android, Visual Studio, and Eclipse; and this year's winners, including Amazon Web Services, Node.js, Hadoop, CloudBees, and Heroku add-on provider Rhomobile. InfoWorld is a venerable publication in the technology world, and this is the first time they've given awards in the cloud space. We see this as another major point of validation for platform-as-a-service, and cloud technologies more generally. 2011 was the year that PaaS came into the…
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- Last Updated: January 19, 2012
- Matthew Soldo
One of the benefits of consuming a database through Heroku Postgres is that we are continually improving the service. This benefit is compounded by the fact that our service is based on PostgreSQL, a vibrant and active open source project. The release of PostgreSQL 9.1 had added a number of feature, performance and reliability improvements. These are available today with our beta support for PostgreSQL 9.1. We have been testing and watching PostgreSQL 9.1 since it became available in September. With the recent release of 9.1.2, it is now ready for prime time on Heroku. Test out PG 9.1 right…
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- Last Updated: May 30, 2024
- Jesper Joergensen
UPDATE: Grails 2 support is deprecated and ending on June 1, 2017. For Grails 3, please see the documentation for Deploying Gradle Apps on Heroku, as Grails 3 and onward use Gradle as their packaging mechanism. We're happy to announce the public beta of Grails application deployment on Heroku with support for Grails 1.3.7 and 2.0 provided by the open source Heroku Grails buildpack. Grails is a high-productivity web application framework for the JVM based on the Groovy programming language and featuring many similarities with Rails. Since its inception in 2006, the framework has enjoyed broad adoption in the Java…
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- Last Updated: November 23, 2011
- James Lindenbaum
Heroku's Postgres database service, the origins of which date back to 2007, is one of the most battle-tested cloud database services around. Over the last year, our growing data team has done an amazing job of dramatically increasing the scale, reliability, and durability of the service – now boasting 99.99% (measured) uptime and over 400 million write-transactions per day. Until now, the service has only been available to Heroku customers, but today we are pleased to announce the launch of Heroku Postgres as a standalone database service. Included in this launch is a new web interface for managing databases, as…
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- Last Updated: June 03, 2024
- Matthew Soldo
Until now, Heroku's Postgres database service – originally launched in 2007 – has only been available to Heroku customers for use with Heroku platform apps. Today we're excited to announce the launch of Heroku Postgres as a standalone service. With measured service uptime of four nines (99.99%), and designed data durability of eleven nines (99.999999999%), the service is trustworthy for mission-critical data. As of today, these production-quality Heroku Postgres databases are independently available for use from any cloud platform, provisioned instantly, metered by the second, and without contract. Battle Tested Heroku Postgres has successfully and safely written 19 billion customer…
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