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Developer Advocate Stories

EuropeClouds podcast, bringing a voice to Developer Advocates.

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Code[ish] • March 4th, 2026

Heroku in the Wild: Saving Lives with Nonprofit Watch Duty

Hosted by Julián Duque, Dave Merrick
During the Los Angeles wildfires in 2025, more than 10 million people relied on Watch Duty for potentially life-saving information. On this episode of Code[ish], its Cofounder and CTO Dave Merrick talks Julián Duque through how the application works and the technologies like Heroku that make it possible.
Hosted By:
Julián Duque
Julián Duque
Principal Developer Advocate, Heroku
@julian_duque
with Guest:
Dave Merrick
Dave Merrick
Cofounder and CTO, Watch Duty

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  • Heroku in the Wild
  • autoscaling
  • caching
  • scaling

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Developer Advocate Stories • September 9th, 2020

Developer Advocate Stories – Episode 4

In this Episode they talked with Julián David Duque, Lead Developer Advocate @Heroku, about his start as a community leader in Colombia, his day 2 day job and how and why he was amazed when he flew to India.

  • DevLife
  • developer advocate

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