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- Last Updated: May 23, 2014
- Balan Subramanian
Developers want to spend less time setting up applications and start working with the code sooner. Setting up applications is error-prone, time consuming and interruptive to the development flow. Often, there are several steps to go from your code or other samples and templates that you find in repositories online, to a running application that you can continue to work on.
Today, we are excited to introduce the app.json manifest . app.json enables developers to define their applications' details, setup configurations and runtime environments in a structured way. Instead of providing step-by-step instructions, you can now add app.json…
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- Last Updated: December 04, 2012
- Zeke Sikelianos
Heroku Add-ons make it easy for developers to extend their applications with new features and functionality. The Add-on Provider Program has enabled cloud service providers with key business tools, including billing, single sign-on, and an integrated end-user support experience. Since the launch of the Heroku Add-ons site over two years ago, the marketplace has grown to nearly 100 add-ons. As the add-ons ecosystem has grown, we've learned a lot about how cloud service providers structure their businesses and how users interact with them.
Today we're happy to announce the launch of the updated Heroku Add-ons site .
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- News
- Last Updated: November 12, 2011
- Mark Pundsack
Today we're happy to announce the availability of Heroku Scheduler . Scheduler is an add-on for running administrative or maintenance tasks, or jobs, at scheduled time intervals. It's the polyglot replacement of the Cron add-on, with more power and flexibility. And it's free; you just pay for the dyno time consumed by the one-off tasks .
A dashboard allows you to configure jobs to run every 10 minutes, every hour, or every day, and unlike the Cron add-on, you can control when. E.g. Every hour on the half-hour, or every day at 7:00am.
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- Last Updated: May 02, 2024
- Morten Bagai
Today we're proud to announce the availability in beta of RabbitMQ add-on by VMWare. RabbitMQ is an open source implementation of the AMQP protocol that provides a robust, scalable and easy-to-use messaging system built for the needs of cloud application developers.
With the add-on, provisioning a fully managed RabbitMQ instance couldn't be easier to do:
$ cd rabbitdemo
$ heroku addons:add rabbitmq
—–> Adding rabbitmq to rabbitdemo… done, v2 (free)
$ heroku config
RABBITMQ_URL => amqp://uname:pwd@host.heroku.srs.rabbitmq.com:13029/vhost
Your application's environment will now have the RABBITMQ_URL set pointing to your new instance. Most modern AMQP clients such as…
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