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At Heroku, we believe PostgreSQL offers the best mix of powerful features, data integrity, speed, standards compliance, and open-source code of any SQL database on the planet. That’s why we were so excited to see the new release of PostgreSQL, v...

Access to application logs on Heroku has historically been one of the least usable functions of the platform. The “heroku logs” command was nothing more than a broadcast fetch of the logfiles for every web and worker dyno in your app. Thi...

What if enterprise apps were built the way you’d build an agile Ruby app? What if they were a pleasure to work with, deploy, and manage? What if big companies could adopt the philosophies of Heroku and the Ruby community? What if your company ...

Recently we announced the release of PG Backups, our new database backup service. Since then, PG Backups has seen rapid adoption and has been successfully managing the backups of a large and growing number of our production customers. Today we are anno...

When a team of developers uses continous deployment to deploy to their Heroku staging and production apps multiple times per day, having a record of what was deployed and when can be very valuable. This is especially true when bad code gets deployed: ...

Heroku is launching a new database backup solution. Heroku PG Backups is available immediately and is the officially supported and recommended method of backing up your PostgreSQL database on Heroku. PG Backups is a significant architectural improveme...

Today Heroku is releasing an update to our dedicated database service. Heroku PostgreSQL provides an improved upgrade path for our users as their applications grow by offering new features, new plans, and instant provisioning. Product Improvements D...

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 abou...

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 littl...

Tuesday was not a good day for Heroku and as a result it was not a good day for our customers. I want to take the time to explain what happened, how we addressed the problem, and what we’re doing in the future to keep it from happening again. Ove...

It’s no secret that Heroku’s getting pretty big. Heck, we advertise the number of apps running on the platform right there on the homepage (over 88,000, when I last looked). We’ve got tens of thousands of developers, and you all have ...

In April we released experimental support for Node.js. Response was instant and overwhelming. Now, nearly 1,000 people are using Node.js on Heroku. The goal of the experiment was to understand what it would take to run Node.js in the most Heroku way ...