Ruby

In 2006, I wrote Catapult: a Quicksilver-inspired command-line for the web. I deployed it to a VPS (Slicehost), then gave the URL out to a few friends. At some point I stopped using it, but some of my friends remained heavy users. Two years later, I...

Visibility and introspection capabilities are critical for managing and debugging real-world applications. But cloud platforms are often lacking when it comes to visibility. The magical black box is great when it "just works," but not so gr...

Visibility and introspection capabilities are critical for managing and debugging real-world applications. But cloud platforms are often lacking when it comes to visibility. The magical black box is great when it "just works," but not so gr...

Node.js has gotten its share of press in the past year, achieving a level of attention some might call hype. Among its touted benefits are performance, high concurrency via a single-threaded event loop, and a parity between client-side and sever-side ...

Node.js has gotten its share of press in the past year, achieving a level of attention some might call hype. Among its touted benefits are performance, high concurrency via a single-threaded event loop, and a parity between client-side and sever-side ...

In the beginning was the command line. The command line is a direct and immediate channel for communicating with and controlling a computer. GUIs and menus are like pointing and gesturing to communicate; whereas the command line is akin to having a w...

Ruby 1.9.2 on Bamboo is now the default for new apps created on Heroku. As we said back in April: Ruby 1.9.2 as the new gold standard for production Ruby apps. In 2011, we’ve seen more and more developers move to 1.9.2. It’s fast, stable, and sees...

Ruby 1.9.2 on Bamboo is now the default for new apps created on Heroku. As we said back in April: Ruby 1.9.2 as the new gold standard for production Ruby apps. In 2011, we’ve seen more and more developers move to 1.9.2. It’s fast, stable, and sees...

Super psyched to announce a major new version of Heroku, the Celadon Cedar stack, going into public beta today (previous stacks were Argent Aspen in 2009, and Badious Bamboo in 2010).

Cedar has many new features and updates, but most importantly introduces a new way of thinking about web application architecture and scaling apps...

Super psyched to announce a major new version of Heroku, the Celadon Cedar stack, going into public beta today (previous stacks were Argent Aspen in 2009, and Badious Bamboo in 2010).

Cedar has many new features and updates, but most importantly introduces a new way of thinking about web application architecture and scaling apps...

Baltimore, Here We Come! Next week is RailsConf in Baltimore, and Heroku is coming out in force. There will be about a dozen of us attending sessions, manning our booth, and chatting with Rubyists, so definitely keep an eye out for us! To make it a bit...

Heroku is fully behind Ruby 1.9.2 as the new gold standard for production Ruby apps. Over the past few months, we’ve seen more and more developers move to the Bamboo 1.9.2 stack. It’s fast, stable, and increasingly sees excellent support ...