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We're delighted to announce that Facebook and Heroku have teamed up to bring you the fastest and easiest way to get your own Facebook app up and running in the cloud. Facebook apps have long been a major segment on the Heroku platform. From scrappy ...

We're delighted to announce that Facebook and Heroku have teamed up to bring you the fastest and easiest way to get your own Facebook app up and running in the cloud. Facebook apps have long been a major segment on the Heroku platform. From scrappy ...

Today we're proud to announce the availability in beta of RabbitMQ add-on by VMWare. RabbitMQ is an open source implementation of the AMQP protocol that provides a robust, scalable and easy-to-use messaging system built for the needs of cloud applicati...

Developers with experience in both Java and Ruby web development often ask the question: Why is web app development so complicated in Java, and so much simpler in Ruby, with Rails? There are many ways to answer this question. But importantly, none o...

Developers with experience in both Java and Ruby web development often ask the question: Why is web app development so complicated in Java, and so much simpler in Ruby, with Rails? There are many ways to answer this question. But importantly, none o...

We're pleased to announce the public beta of Heroku for Java. Java is the fourth official language available on the Cedar stack. Java is, by many measures, the world's most popular programming language. In addition to its large and diverse develop...

Programming languages are silos. The libraries, development tools, deployment practices, and even naming schemes associated with one language — say, Ruby — rarely have much carry-over to another language — say, Python, Erlang, Java, or C++.

Professional programmers dedicate their careers to becoming experts in a particular language, making extensive personal investment in learning not...

Programming languages are silos. The libraries, development tools, deployment practices, and even naming schemes associated with one language — say, Ruby — rarely have much carry-over to another language — say, Python, Erlang, Java, or C++.

Professional programmers dedicate their careers to becoming experts in a particular language, making extensive personal investment in learning not...

The rails community is making the final push to get 3.1 out and is looking for your help! As part of a worldwide effort over the weekend, Heroku is hosting a local hackfest to help finalize Rails 3.1. On Saturday, July 23rd from 12pm to 5pm, Heroku w...

Japanese version here (日本語版はこちら). Today marks a very special occasion in the history of Heroku, as we are honored to announce that Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto, the creator of Ruby, has joined the Heroku team as Chief Architec...

英語版はこちら（English version here）。 本日は、Herokuの歴史において非常に特別な日です ―― Rubyの作者、まつもとゆきひろ氏、Matzを、RubyのチーフアーキテクトとしてHerokuに迎えること

We're very excited to announce official support for Clojure, going into public beta as of today. Clojure is the third official language supported by Heroku, and is available on the Cedar stack. Clojure is a Lisp-like functional programming language w...