Post-mortem on April 21 Outage
On April 21st 2011, Heroku experienced a widespread application outage. We have posted a full post-mortem detailing the causes and steps we are taking to prevent similar outages from happening in the future.
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Announcing Heroku for Logo… powered by Heroku
Since launching Ruby support in 2007, we’ve been constantly expanding the platform to accommodate more application types and to make the platform more accessible to a broader audience of developers.
We are very pleased today to announce full supp...
Using Bundler Groups on Heroku
Bundler groups are commonly used to specify which dependencies of your application are needed in a given environment. You may have something like this in your Gemfile:
group :test do
gem "rspec"
end
Using the "test" group in this case allows you ...
The Path Forward: Ruby 1.9.2
At Heroku, we’ve been watching the progress of MRI very carefully for a while now; we added support for 1.9.1 nearly a year ago and 1.9.2 more recently, and we’ve seen thousands of apps created and running successfully on the 1.9 series of ...
New Logging Now in General Availability
In December, we rolled out the public beta of a sweet new logging system for Heroku. The new system combines log output from your app’s processes and Heroku’s system components (such as the HTTP router). With all of your logs collated into a singl...
It’s Time To Double Up (Using Amazon’s RDS Read Replication Database Servers With Heroku For Master-Slave Replication)
Heroku is great for rapid application development but if you want to run multiple databases it doesn’t provide any options. Running multiple databases in a master-slave orientation can provide an elegant solution to many scaling issues. This can ...
Improved Maintenance Mode for All Apps
The improved maintenance mode we described last month is now standard for all existing and new apps.
This new maintenance mode is faster and much more scalable, particularly for apps with more than fifty dynos. It handles maintenance mode at the HTTP ...
A New Approach to Errors
When your app is crashed, out of resources, or misbehaving in some other way, Heroku serves error pages to describe the problem. We also have a single page for platform errors, once known as the ouchie guy (pictured right).
While the approach of show...
Win a MacBook Air with Heroku + IndexTank
We’re very excited about the growth of the add-on ecosystem following the launch of the provider program — with dozens of add-ons in various stages of release, our developers have access to a wide variety of functionality for their applicat...
PostgreSQL 9 Public Beta
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...
Getting started with Heroku
Getting started with Heroku This guest post is by Ben Scofield, who is Heroku’s developer advocate, responsible for listening to the tens of thousands of developers deploying their Ruby applications to the cloud. He’s spoken at many conferences around the world, and in 2010 became the co-chair for RailsConf. Introduction Heroku has been in the...
Heroku Gets Sweet Logging
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...
