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- Last Updated: March 26, 2024
- Sara Dornsife
Waza (技) 2013 is only a week away and the schedule is packed with amazing speakers and hands-on craft experiences. We can’t wait to share this day with all of you. If you haven’t yet, register now before it’s too late!
This year, Waza will have three stages with a total of 20 talks. The rest of the venue is packed with lounges, co-working spaces, snack and beverage stations, and, thanks to our sponsors, all …
- News
- Last Updated: February 16, 2013
- Jesper Joergensen
Over the past couple of years Heroku customers have occasionally reported unexplained latency on Heroku. There are many causes of latency—some of them have nothing to do with Heroku—but until this week, we failed to see a common thread among these reports. We now know that our routing and load balancing mechanism on the Bamboo and Cedar stacks created latency issues for our Rails customers, which manifested themselves in several ways, including:
- Unexplainable, high latencies …
- News
- Last Updated: June 03, 2024
- Oren Teich
Yesterday, one of our customers let us know about significant performance issues they have experienced on Heroku. They raised an important issue and I want to let our community know about it. In short, Ruby on Rails apps running on Bamboo have experienced a degradation in performance over the past 3 years as we have scaled.
We failed to explain how our product works. We failed to help our customers scale. We failed our community …
- News
- Last Updated: March 28, 2024
- Sara Dornsife
Waza (技) 2013 is less than a month away and we are excited to have a full lineup of speakers who will be talking about their perspectives on art and technique. In between the talks, take part in an unique blend of conversation and craft through the hands-on workshops led by artisans teaching their trades from origami creations, to take-home woodblock prints, and even a hand-crafted and dyed quilt. Take part in this celebration of …
- News
- Last Updated: May 06, 2024
- Oren Teich
On Friday January 18, security researcher Benjamin Manns notified Heroku of a security vulnerability related to our add-ons program. At a high level, the vulnerability could have resulted in disclosing our Cross-Site Request Forgery tokens (these tokens are used to prevent browser hijacking) to third parties.
We quickly addressed the vulnerability and on Sunday, we deployed a patch to remediate the issue. We also reviewed our code for related vulnerabilities and conducted a review of …
- News
- Last Updated: January 17, 2013
- Craig Kerstiens
An organization’s data is its most valuable asset. Unfortunately, that data is usually trapped inside a database with few ways to access it by a privileged handful of people. Too often reports are manually generated and their results pasted into emails; dashboards get built but rapidly become outdated and never answer the right questions.
We have so many great tools for collaborating around our source code, why is data still in the dark ages? At …
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