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- Last Updated: November 06, 2024
- Emily Todd
Dreamforce comes to San Francisco this September 17-19. Heroku, a Salesforce company, has a packed schedule with a variety of sessions and activities designed to enhance your knowledge of our platform and integrations with Salesforce technologies.
Learn more about Heroku’s latest innovations by adding us to your agenda via the Dreamforce Agenda Builder . Here’s where you can find Heroku at Dreamforce 2024.
Heroku Demos in the Trailblazer Forest
Whether you are a full-stack Salesforce Developer or just prefer the CLI the Heroku demo booth is the best place to kick off Dreamforce. Dive into the latest product…
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- Last Updated: August 31, 2023
- Andrew Fawcett
While it's not our usual approach to announce hiring updates on our product blog, we're pleased to share our ongoing dedication to improving the Heroku experience.
Heroku is entering a new phase of investment, and as a part of this initiative, we are opening up new positions for individuals who would like to join us in driving this effort. Our goal is to expand our offerings across the platform, catering to both our customers and ecosystem partners.
Our mission remains clear: we aim to assist developers in creating their best…
We have a saying around the Heroku team thanks to our awesome engineering leader Gail Frederick. She reminds us of this often: “Feedback is a gift”. These are words we try to live by both internally and with our customers.
Feedback: What is Heroku investing in? What has shipped?
We had a very busy 2022! We just published the product retrospective for last year here .
You’ve given us really positive feedback on the openness of our public roadmap , and many customers have told us they love it. Our top voted ideas…
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- Last Updated: July 12, 2024
- Andre Soto
2022 was a transformational year for Heroku. In this post, we share how we’ve been enriching the Heroku developer experience in 2022, especially since committing to Heroku’s Next Chapter . We are dedicated to supporting our customers of all sizes who continue to invest and build their projects, careers, and businesses on Heroku.
As part of our commitment to increase transparency, the Heroku roadmap went live on GitHub in August 2022. The public roadmap has grown with the participation of many of our customers. Thank you for engaging with us about the future of Heroku. We…
While it is a little unusual for us to share a hiring post on our product blog, I’ve been asked about our investment in Heroku repeatedly, so we want shine the spotlight on our efforts to grow the team.
We are hiring for both product and engineering, from developers to engineering managers working across our product suite, including Runtime, API, DX, and our Data products. Additionally, we have opened roles in our Research, TPM, Documentation, and Product Management teams. Check out all our open roles .
Our public roadmap continues to evolve, and I am delighted to…
Back in May, I wrote about my enthusiasm to be part of the Heroku story, and I remain just as passionate today about helping write the next chapter. I’ve had many customer meetings over the past few months, and the theme is consistent — you want to know where we are taking Heroku. We want to be clear: The priority going forward is to support customers of all sizes who are betting projects, careers, and businesses on Heroku. These are companies like PensionBee , who help people manage their pensions; MX , who help small businesses with loans; Furnished…
- Life
- Last Updated: June 03, 2024
- Sally Vedros
Every entrepreneur wonders: “Will my startup sink or swim?” When Felix Brandon and his wife Jordan Lloyd Bookey launched Zoobean , a startup focused on children’s reading, they found themselves swimming in rough waters early on. A few months after launch, the founders were invited to pitch their business on the TV show Shark Tank.
What felt like a sinking moment turned into more than a lifeline for the fledgling business — it entirely transformed their business model. In the year that followed the Shark Tank episode, Zoobean went from a consumer subscription service to an enterprise reading program platform loved…
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- Last Updated: July 22, 2024
- Sally Vedros
The need for speed takes on a new meaning in the face of a pandemic. With millions of lives at stake, everyone in the healthcare ecosystem, from medical facilities to laboratories to equipment manufacturers, races to do their part to help curb the spread.
With the coronavirus, the world put widespread diagnostic testing at the core of its pandemic response playbook. However, testing is only effective if the test results are accurate — a false negative could not only endanger the individual, but also their entire community.
Third-party quality assurance providers play a vital role in testing the tests. They make sure…
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- Last Updated: December 04, 2020
- Sally Vedros
For many of us, changing jobs seems like the best way to grow professionally or advance our careers. Not so for Edd Morgan , Senior Director of Engineering at BiggerPockets . During his first year in college, he became the startup’s first employee. Twelve years later, Edd reflects on his unusually stable career path and how he’s helped to grow the company into a thriving business with two million users.
It all started with a part-time job
In 2008, Edd began studying computer science at the University of Bournemouth in the U.K. Like many college students, he needed…
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- Last Updated: April 24, 2024
- Ryan Townsend
Sometimes, innovation is born in the midst of a crisis. Unexpected challenges and a sense of urgency force companies to look for new ways of keeping the business going, even as the odds stack up against them. This was the case for one of our biggest customers Matalan , a major fashion and homeware retailer in the U.K. The company operates 230 brick and mortar stores across the country, and 30 international franchise stores within Europe and the Middle East. It also maintains a thriving online channel that runs on the SHIFT platform .
When the global coronavirus pandemic hit, the…
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