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Threshold Alerting for Application Metrics Now Generally Available

Today we're announcing two new features that will help you better manage and run apps on Heroku: Threshold Alerting and Hobby dyno metrics. Threshold Alerting provides the ability to set notification thresholds for key performance and health indicators of your app. We’ve also extended basic Application Metrics to Hobby dynos to provide basic health monitoring and application guidance. Together these features allow you to stay focused on building functionality by letting the platform handle your app monitoring.

Threshold Alerting

There are many ways to measure the health of an application. The new alerting feature focuses on what is most important …

Neither self nor this: Receivers in Go

Andrey Petrov is the author of urllib3, the creator of Briefmetrics and ssh-chat, and a former Googler and Y Combinator alum. He’s back again to free us of our old ways of thinking, so that we can embrace what's really special about receivers in Go.

When getting started with Go, there is a strong temptation to bring baggage from
your previous language. It’s a heuristic which is usually helpful, but sometimes
counter-productive and inevitably results in regret.

Go does not have classes and objects, but it does have types that we can make
many instances of. Further, we …

New Dynos and Pricing Are Now Generally Available

Today we are announcing that Heroku’s new dynos are generally available. This new suite of dynos gives you an expanded set of options and prices when it comes to building apps at any scale on Heroku, no matter whether you’re preparing for traffic from Black Friday shoppers or deploying your first lines of code. Thanks to everyone who participated in the beta and provided feedback and bug reports.

What does this mean for you? Beginning today, all new applications will run using these new dynos. You can migrate your existing paid applications to the new dynos at any convenient time …

New Dyno Types and Pricing Public Beta

Today, we’re introducing a suite of new dynos. These dynos introduce new capabilities and price points and reduce the cost of scaling businesses on Heroku. These new dynos enter beta today.

We’ve always provided a developer experience so you can create amazing apps, from hacking on new technologies and personal projects to building production applications and the most demanding high traffic apps. As Heroku has evolved, you’ve asked us for more choices when it comes to features and pricing to better match how you’re using the platform.

Customers with demanding production applications have asked us for professional features and prices …

Getting started with the Force.com APIs for the Hackathon

With the Salesforce hackathon fast approaching, I wanted to give a quick overview
on building apps that use the force.com APIs (part of the Salesforce1 platform).

The force APIs are rich and varied, so sometimes just getting started can seem
a little daunting.

What services are provided?

The force.com APIs give your application access to the authentication, data storage,
and business rule services provided by the Salesforce1 platform. Some of the
things you can do with the APIs include:

Authenticate users based on a Salesforce username and password
Query any data stored in a Salesforce account. Data access rules for …

HUG Recap

Last night, we threw our first-ever Heroku Users Group meetup, and it was a hit!

Fifty Heroku users, add-on developers, entrepreneurs, and more gathered at our new office to get to know the Heroku team and swap stories with each other. We heard about some of the remarkable applications people are building on the platform, and we’re very excited to publicize those more — at future HUGs, in our newsletter, and here on the blog.

For this first meetup, though, we decided to open the curtains around Heroku’s inner workings a bit. Adam gave a great talk about five new …

HUG Update

A few weeks ago, we announced our first-ever Heroku Users Group (known henceforth and forever more as a HUG, showing just how much we love our developers!) meetup. We’re now a week away, and we thought it’d be a good time to go into a little more detail about the plan.

On November 3rd at 7pm, we’re opening the doors to anyone who uses Heroku – developers who deploy to us, businesses built on our platform, add-on providers who create and manage services for our users, and more. We’re eager to get everyone in the same room, and we’re looking …

Featured App Success Story: FlightCaster Provides Flight Delay Prediction

Last month’s featured app was FlightCaster. FlightCaster provides flight delay prediction, letting you know 6 hours in advance if your flight is delayed. Today we’ve posted their success story, along with a great video with their CEO, Jason Freedman.

Jason goes into some great details on how they use Heroku to handle their complex application, including using a Hadoop cluster to process millions of updates. In his words, “Heroku has enabled us to deliver a world class service without having the huge management and operational overhead we would have otherwise needed.”

Watch the video below. For more technical details, also …

How Best Buy IdeaX Cut Costs and Saved Time on Heroku

This month’s featured app is Best Buy IdeaX, developed by Bust Out Solutions. Best Buy IdeaX is a forum for Best Buy customers to share, rate, and discuss ideas to help make Best Buy better.

“We were very interested in running IdeaX on a cloud computing infrastructure such as Amazon EC2, but the cost of maintaining our own EC2 instances was just too high, not to mention frustrating. Heroku solves those problems for us with their solid platform infrastructure and nice user interface. We’re saving time and money, and enjoying development much more.” said Jeff Linn, Founder/CEO of Bust Out …

We’re Hiring a Heroku Evangelist and a Ruby Engineer!

Thanks to the continued support of the fantastic Ruby community, Heroku is rapidly growing.

We’re determined to keep improving our service for our ever expanding user base, and to that end we’re looking for a few fresh faces to join our world-class team in San Francisco.

First up, we’re hiring our first full-time Heroku Evangelist. This lucky person should have a serious passion for Ruby and cloud computing, along with the enthusiasm and ability to communicate to our audience how Heroku can make their lives easier. There will be lots of presentations to make, conferences to visit, and ample …

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