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Cloud Infrastructure

Behind the Scenes: How Maintaining Cloud Native Buildpacks Powers Platforms Like Heroku

Most developers never see the 11 pack releases we shipped in the last 14 months as pack CLI maintainers. That’s actually a good sign—it means the infrastructure just works. When a critical vulnerability emerges requiring an immediate upgrade, the fix is shipped within days.

Here’s what most developers don’t see: that same security patch now protects every buildpack user across Heroku, Google Cloud, Openshift, VMware Tanzu, and thousands of internal platforms.

PaaS + IaaS: Heroku and AWS for Cloud-Native Enterprise Agility

For modern enterprises building cloud-native applications, success hinges on achieving maximum development velocity at every scale. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) providers like AWS provide hundreds of services with the unmatched reliability and scale needed for enterprise infrastructure, but they can require significant effort and expertise for organizations to be effective and efficient. To achieve true agility, development teams turn to a Platform as a Service (PaaS) like Heroku to streamline the path to production and beyond.

Triage and Fix with Confidence: heroku run and OTel on Heroku Fir

When Production Goes Sideways

Imagine this: It’s 2 AM, your phone buzzes with an alert, and your dashboards are screaming. Production is down. Sound familiar? An automated health check has failed, and your internal dashboards are showing a spike in errors. You’ve just pushed a new release that included a critical database schema change, and a background worker task that relies on it is now failing. The web application is still running, but users are …

OpenTelemetry, Kubernetes, and Fir: Putting it All Together

Modern cloud-native architectures are composed of multiple microservices running across dynamic environments. Effectively diagnosing performance issues, bottlenecks, or failures requires comprehensive observability. For this, many organizations look to OpenTelemetry, which provides a standardized approach to capturing and analyzing telemetry data.

Fir is Heroku’s next generation cloud platform, designed to offer more modern cloud-native capabilities with flexibility and scalability. It’s built on proven, open-source technologies. Traditional Heroku relied on proprietary technologies, which was appropriate at …

Local Speed, Smooth Deploys: Heroku Adds Support for uv

Ah, another day, another deep dive into the ever-evolving world of Python development! Today, let’s talk about something near and dear to every Pythonista’s heart – managing those crucial external packages. For years, pip has been our trusty companion, the workhorse that gets the job done. But the landscape is shifting, and a new contender has entered the arena, promising speed, efficiency, and a fresh approach: uv.

As a Python developer constantly striving for …

OpenTelemetry Basics on Heroku Fir

Heroku recently made the next generation platform – Fir – generally available. Fir builds on the strengths of the Cedar generation while introducing a new modern era of developer experience. Fir leverages modern cloud-native technologies to provide a seamless and performant platform.

One of the goals we set out to achieve with Fir is to modernize our platform’s observability architecture. Applications being written today are becoming increasingly more distributed and complex in nature. With this …

Deploying a Simple Go/Gin Application on Heroku

The speed and efficiency of the Go programming language make it popular for backend development. Combine Go with the Gin framework—which offers a fast and minimalistic approach to building web applications—and developers can easily create high-performance APIs and web services. Whether you’re working on a personal project or building a production-ready application, Go and Gin make for an attractive stack perfectly suited for lightweight, scalable web development.

Creating a Go/Gin application might seem straightforward: …

Optimizing Enterprise Operations with Heroku’s Advanced Logging Features

Logging is the unsung hero of enterprise operations—quietly saving the day, one log line at a time. Imagine trying to maintain successful applications without knowing what’s happening inside them. This would be like flying a plane blindfolded at night, in a storm, with no instruments. Spoiler alert: Neither scenario would end well!

Today’s distributed systems are massively complex. To develop and maintain them properly, your ability to capture, analyze, and act on log data becomes …

Migrating Your Ruby Apps to the Latest Stack

Do you run Rails or pure Ruby applications on Heroku? If so, it’s important to be aware of upcoming end-of-life (EOL) dates for both your stack and your Ruby version. The Heroku-20 stack, built on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, will reach EOL for standard support in April 2025. Ruby 2.7 has already passed its EOL, meaning it’s no longer receiving critical security updates. Continuing to run your app with either an outdated Ruby version or an …

Heroku Fir: Dive into the New Platform Capabilities

For years, Heroku has been empowering developers to deploy and scale their applications with ease. We’re thrilled to offer the next generation of the Heroku platform, codenamed Fir. Built on open source standards and cloud-native technologies, Fir accelerates your development like never before.

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