All Heroku Episodes
A collection of podcasts with Heroku engineers, developers, and product managers.
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Heroku Dataclips has been around since 2012, and it's still a reliable part of the Heroku Postgres ecosystem. Dataclips lets you quickly, easily, and safely access your database, allowing you to share the results with others to see. Dataclips makes it easier for anyone in your organization to get the data that they need, without connecting to a production server and memorizing the correct SQL incantation.
Recently, Dataclips was updated with newer features and functionality. Join us as we talk about what's changed and what's reliably staying the same.
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When it comes to web performance, there are plenty of trade-offs to make to ensure a page renders as quickly as possible. Ryan Townsend joins us from Shift Commerce to talk about how milliseconds of delay can cause millions of dollars in lost revenue. He and his team have several frontend and backend strategies that make sure the site stays fast, even through massive traffic spikes.
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Heroku is a remote-first company, and for some employees, it's their first time working on a distributed team. Five different Herokai talk about what's worked (and what hasn't), ranging from their home office setup, the necessity in establishing a schedule, staying engaged with the rest of the company, and how to get a strong Internet connection atop the Rocky Mountains.
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There's data being generated and collected all around us, from the shows we binge watch to the shoes we buy online. Isaac Slavitt has a different concern: can data scientists use their methodologies to prevent diseases, combat pollution, or track wildlife migration patterns?
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For many developers, public speaking can be an intimidating endeavor. Whatever your experience level, it can be difficult coming up with a topic, formatting your slides, or even identifying which conference to deliver your talk.
Whether it's on a technical or non-technical topic, there are tired and true techniques you can use to make sure your talk is an amazing one. We'll go over some of those strategies, starting from the beginning: how to find a conference to present at, what conference organizers are looking for in a CFP, and how to maintain your audience's interest.
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Spring has come, and chocolate bunnies aren't the only delights worth cracking open. Your database is filled with all sorts of data that's useful to your organization and your customers. But what's the best way to get insight into that information? You could connect directly to production and run queries, but one wrong command and your database could lock up, or worse, result in data loss. And what if non-engineering teams want to run their own analytics, or if external customers are asking for results pertaining to their subscribers?
There are ways to lower the barriers of access to your database. Rather than write one-off queries for your Sales or Marketing teams--likely requiring test suites and redeploys--you can construct safer SQL queries through a web UI. That data can also be shared through an API, so you can hook it up to a Slack bot, or even generate a unique password-protected URL, to share with people outside your company.
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Edward Muller discusses his State of Go survey, vendoring and versioning, the Heroku Go Buildpack, how they use Go at Heroku, and more.
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Open source developers are often taken for granted. They spend their nights and weekends toiling away, often in obscurity, to bring developers and their companies the tools and frameworks they've come to depend on. Smart companies are beginning to realize that these critical pieces of infrastructure are too important to trust to an effectively volunteer staff; they want ready access to the developers of their tooling and their skills.
In recent years it has become increasingly common for companies to bring strategic open source developers on full-time. The developers are ideally afforded the opportunity to maintain the pace of their work on their open source projects, but they're also around to lend support and mentorship, and to assist with complex technical problems related to their area of expertise.
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Simple tech stacks don't get enough love. Andrew Garcia talks to us about Goodshuffle and the advantages of building on top of Grails, JDK8, and a trustworthy tech stack.
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