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Building an Enterprise Data Warehouse on Heroku: From Complex ETL to Seamless Salesforce Integration

Modern businesses don’t just run on Salesforce—they run on entire ecosystems of applications. At Heroku, we operate dozens of services alongside our Salesforce instance such as billing systems, user management platforms, analytics engines, and support tools. Traditional approaches to unifying this data create more problems than they solve.

In this article, we’ll see how we unified Salesforce and multi-app data into a real-time analytics platform that processes over 10 TB data monthly with 99.99% uptime. …

Introducing the Next Generation of Heroku Postgres – Unlocking Performance, Scale, and Zero-Friction Ops

We are thrilled to announce the next generation of Heroku Postgres to power a data foundation for the next wave of intelligent and mission-critical applications. This roadmap has been driven by listening closely to our customers, culminating in the introduction of a new Heroku Postgres Advanced tier. This revolutionary data foundation is designed to eliminate previous scaling limits, unlock unprecedented architectural flexibility and performance, and reduce operational friction. As the AI PaaS from Salesforce, Heroku is the force multiplier for developers building this future with an integrated platform with powerful capabilities made simple to use - removing friction along the software delivery lifecycle. We invite you to sign up for the pilot.

Heroku Postgres 17 with the New Upgrade Process: Faster Performance, Easier Upgrade

We’re excited to announce the general availability of Heroku Postgres version 17, packed with new features and enhancements to your database performance. And that’s not all – we’re also introducing a game-changing feature that streamlines your upgrade experience. This new method of version upgrade is now the default, so you can try it to upgrade to Postgres 17!

Postgres 17: Powering your applications with enhanced performance and security

Before we dive into the …

Heroku Postgres Upgrade Guide: Simplify Your Move to Version 17

If you’ve ever deployed an app on Heroku, chances are you’ve used Heroku Postgres — our fully managed, reliable, and scalable Postgres database service. It’s the backbone for millions of applications, from weekend side projects to enterprise-grade systems running in production.

But Postgres, like all software, continues to evolve. With new versions released each year, you gain access to performance enhancements, critical security updates, and powerful new features. Keeping your database up to date isn’t …

Planning Your PostgreSQL Migration: Best Practices and Key Considerations

Your organization may have many reasons to move a cloud service from one provider to another. Maybe you’ve found a better performance-versus-cost balance elsewhere. Maybe you’re trying to avoid vendor lock-in. Whatever your reasons, the convenience and general interoperability of cloud services today put you in the driver’s seat. You get to piece together the tech stack and the cloud provider(s) that best align with your business.

This includes where you turn for your PostgreSQL database.

If you’re considering migrating your Postgres database to a different cloud provider, such as Heroku, the process might seem daunting. You’re concerned about the risk of data loss or the impact of extended downtime. Are the benefits worth the effort and the risk?

Optimizing Data Reliability: Heroku Connect & Drift Detection

Heroku Connect makes it easy to sync data at scale between Salesforce and Heroku Postgres. You can build Heroku apps that bidirectionally share data in your Postgres database with your contacts, accounts, and other custom objects in Salesforce. Easily configured with a point-and-click UI, you can get the integration up and running in minutes without writing code or worrying about API limits. In this post, we introduce our recent improvements to Heroku Connect on …

Introducing New Heroku Postgres Essential Plans Built On Amazon Aurora

We’re thrilled to launch our new Heroku Postgres Essential database plans. These plans have pgvector support, no row count limits, and come with a 32 GB option. We deliver exceptional transactional query performance with Amazon Aurora as the backing infrastructure. One of our beta customers said:

“The difference was noticeable right from the start. Heroku Postgres running on Aurora delivered a boost in speed, allowing us to query and process our data faster.”

Our …

Introducing the Heroku Postgres Connector for Salesforce Data Cloud

Heroku Postgres is one of the world’s largest managed data stores. Our customers rely on Heroku Postgres to store valuable data, which powers a range of experiences and services they build on Heroku. Salesforce Data Cloud integrates all your company’s data into the Einstein 1 Platform, creating a comprehensive customer view for personalized engagements, analytics, and AI.

When businesses bring data from Heroku Postgres into Salesforce Data Cloud to create unified customer profiles, they …

Enhancing Heroku Postgres with pgvector: Generating AI Insights

We’re pleased to introduce the pgvector extension on Heroku Postgres. In an era where large language models (LLMs) and AI applications are paramount, pgvector provides the essential capability for performing high-dimensional vector similarity searches. This allows Heroku Postgres to quickly find similar data points in complex data, which is great for applications like recommendation systems and prompt engineering for LLMs. As of today, pgvector is fully compatible with all Production-tier databases running Postgres 15 …

How Heroku’s Scaling helped Zoobean through their Shark Tank Pitch

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 …

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