Events
Today, many people with diabetes are choosing to manage their condition using devices called continuous glucose monitors (CGMs). Not only do they replace the need for most finger prick testing, but they also provide a stream of data round the clock. However, like all data, it’s only as useful as the tools that analyze it.
That’s where Sugarmate comes in. Created by serial entrepreneur Josh Juster to help manage his own condition, Sugarmate combines a Heroku back-end with web, mobile, and smartspeaker apps to provide life-changing alerts and analysis for people living with diabetes.
- Engineering
- Last Updated: March 29, 2024
- Jonan Scheffler
The Ruby committers have again continued their annual holiday tradition of gifting us a new Ruby version: Ruby 2.6 was released today, including the long awaited Just-In-Time (JIT) compiler that the Ruby team has been working on for more than a year.
Just-In-Time compilation requires Ruby to spin up a compiler process on startup, and we’re proud to say that this feature is supported today on Heroku thanks to the diligent efforts of our very own Richard Schneeman . We’d also like to thank fellow Herokai Nobuyoshi Nakada for his effort making sure the new JIT works well with all of…
- Engineering
- Last Updated: December 19, 2017
- Jeff Chao
Designing scalable, fault tolerant, and maintainable stream processing systems is not trivial. The Kafka Streams Java library paired with an Apache Kafka cluster simplifies the amount and complexity of the code you have to write for your stream processing system.
Unlike other stream processing systems, Kafka Streams frees you from having to worry about building and maintaining separate infrastructural dependencies alongside your Kafka clusters. However, you still need to worry about provisioning, orchestrating, and monitoring infrastructure for your Kafka Streams applications.
Heroku makes it easy for you to deploy, run, and scale your Kafka Streams applications by…
- News
- Last Updated: September 14, 2017
- Rand Arete
Event-driven architectures are on the rise, in response to fast-moving data and constellations of inter-connected systems. In order to support this trend, last year we released Apache Kafka on Heroku – a gracefully integrated, fully managed, and carefully optimized element of Heroku's platform that is the culmination of years of experience of running many hundreds of Kafka clusters in production and contributing code to the Kafka ecosystem.
Today, we are excited to announce additional plans and pricing in our Kafka offering in order to make Apache Kafka more accessible, and to better support development, testing, and low volume…
- News
- Last Updated: July 12, 2024
- Jonan Scheffler
Heroku is very fortunate to have a strong community of developers that are excited and passionate about our product. Every day we hear from customers who tell us how much easier Heroku has made their lives, and they frequently share stories about interesting technical projects we've helped them bring to life.
Our customers love us, and we love them right back. Today we'll take a look at a few blog posts and applications from Heroku users that illustrate what makes our community so special. We hope you enjoy the tour. If you have Heroku stories of your own…
- News
- Last Updated: June 03, 2024
- Chris Castle
Heroku recently released [a managed Apache Kafka][1] offering. As a Node.js developer, I wanted to demystify Kafka by sharing a simple yet practical use case with the many Node.js developers who are curious how this technology might be useful. At Heroku we use Kafka internally for a number of uses including data pipelines . I thought that would be a good place to start.
When it comes to actual examples, Java and Scala get all the love in the Kafka world. Of course, these are powerful languages, but I wanted to explore Kafka from the perspective of Node.js. While there are…
- News
- Last Updated: September 28, 2016
- Rand Arete
Many of the compelling and engaging application experiences we enjoy every day are powered by event-based systems; requesting a ride and watching its progress, communicating with a friend or large group in real time, or connecting our increasingly intelligent devices to our phones and each other. Behind the scenes, similar architectures let developers connect separate services into single systems, or process huge data streams to generate real-time insights. Together, these event-driven architectures and systems are quickly becoming a powerful complement to the relational database and app server models that have been at the core of Internet applications for…
- News
- Last Updated: November 11, 2014
- Matthew Creager
We’re very excited that our Heroku colleagues Matz, Nobu and Ko1 will all be visiting from Japan soon to attend RubyConf, and it’s especially serendipitous that it is happening in such close proximity to Thanksgiving. Not only is Thanksgiving one of the few holidays that Japan and the U.S. share, it’s a holiday that brings families together to reflect on what’s been accomplished, and to share insight into the future. We've been waiting for just the right opportunity to organize a small Ruby gathering and Thanksgiving provides the perfect setting.
"I hope to see Ruby help every…
- Engineering
- Last Updated: May 30, 2024
- Scott Persinger
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.
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 the
authenticated user are…
- News
- Last Updated: March 21, 2013
- Dana Oshiro
When we think of the concept of Waza (技) or "art and technique," it's easy to get caught up in the idea of individual mastery. It's true that works of art are often created by those with great skill, but acquiring that skill is neither solitary nor static. Generations of masters contribute to a canon and it is in that spirit that we built the Heroku platform and the Waza event. This year's Waza was no exception.
On February 28th, more than 900 attendees participated in Waza including Ruby founder Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto , Django co-creator Jacob Kaplan-Moss…
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