Welcome to The Blueprint, a new feature where we highlight how Google Cloud customers are tackling unique and common challenges across industries using the latest AI and cloud technologies. We hope to inspire others looking to innovate in their work. Founded in 2018, Voicify reimagines the traditional phone call with the goal of transforming every call into a seamless and…
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23 Jul
22 Jul
From maintenance to innovation: Checking in on Checkout.com’s Cloud Composer 3 migration
Google CloudData engineering teams often face a “Day 2” operational reality after building a data platform: the ongoing work of maintaining the orchestrator itself. For the Data Platform team at Checkout.com, managing a self-hosted Apache Airflow environment on another hyperscaler was consuming time the team wanted to spend elsewhere as server management, patching, and incident response were pulling focus from building…
6 Jul
When a security analyst is alerted to a suspicious login or an unusual firewall block...
1 Jul
Editor’s note: SOCRadar is a leading cybersecurity company that provides threat intelligence to businesses worldwide. As the volume of cyber threats continued to grow, SOCRadar needed to modernize its data infrastructure to deliver faster insights to its customers. By migrating from PostgreSQL to AlloyDB, SOCRadar achieved a 20x performance boost, reduced operational overhead, and is now better positioned to innovate…
30 Jun
Computational chemistry researchers have traditionally faced a frustrating trade-off when simulating molecular interactions: use fast classical force fields that sacrifice precision or rely on accurate quantum-mechanical methods that run too slowly on large jobs. Machine-learned force fields (MLFFs) close that gap by training neural networks on high-fidelity quantum data. When it comes to modern drug discovery and materials design, though,…
17 Jun
The UK’s 5-million-plus small and midsize businesses and enterprises (SMBs) are the backbone of our economy. Today, we’re seeing these critical businesses begin to put AI to work, to operate more efficiently, move faster, and ultimately deliver better outcomes for their customers. This shift is driven by tangible day-to-day results. According to recent research from Enterprise Nation published in partnership…
The United Kingdom, and London in particular, continues to be one of the great hubs for AI development in Europe and the world. We’re home to Google DeepMind, of course, as well as significant AI unicorns — and Google Cloud customers — like Ineffable Intelligence, which is today announcing an important partnership with us. A year ago, we joined you…
16 Jun
How Siemens "slices the elephant," advancing agentic workflows for industrial software development
Google CloudFor technology companies like Siemens, software is the nervous system of factories, energy grids, and transportation networks worldwide. As a global leader in industrial AI, industrial software, and industrial automation, Siemens brings decades of domain expertise across factory and process automation, energy infrastructure, and intelligent transportation — expertise that no off-the-shelf AI solution can replicate. But innovation carries a heavy…
15 Jun
As enterprises adopt agentic AI, they need to shift from reactive systems of intelligence to proactive systems of action to equip the agents they’re building with the context and performance they need, plus regulator-grade accountability, where every decision is explainable and auditable. At Google Cloud Next ‘26, we discuss how our Agentic Data Cloud enables a system of action, and…
11 Jun
Over the past few years, increasingly customers have shifted from asking “help us...
When a store manager at a major food retailer needs to know the correct hot holding temperature for a rotisserie chicken...
10 Jun
Rivian is building electric vehicles and services that require fast, trusted decision-making...
9 Jun
Every industry has its own unique challenges. The Databricks Customer Awards Industry...
8 Jun
From maintenance PDFs to actionable insights with AI agentsOperations and maintenance...
Modernizing Healthcare: How Alcidion achieved greater stability and performance with AlloyDB
Google CloudIn clinical informatics, every second counts. For Alcidion, a global leader in smart health solutions, the mission is simple but critical: use technology to reduce cognitive load for clinicians and present the right information at the right time to save lives. Whether it’s managing patient flow in an emergency department or ensuring a patient is in the correct ward to…
2 Mar 2024
2024 is going to be an exciting year at Heroku. Before we jump into 2024, let’s take a look back at 2023 and show you how we’re empowering developers to deliver amazing apps. First of all, we want to take a moment to thank you, our customers, partners, employees, and extended communities. Your passion for […] The post 2023: Delivering…
3 Aug 2023
We re-enabled payments to Heroku in India! At the start of August, we resumed accepting credit and debit cards issued by Indian financial institutions. From the engagement on our public roadmap, we know that there are many developers in India eager to get back on the platform. We want to address the work done to […] The post Heroku Card…
25 Aug 2022
Back in May, I wrote about my enthusiasm to be part of the Heroku story, and I remain just as passionate today about helping write the next chapter. I’ve had many customer meetings over the past few months, and the theme is consistent — you want to know where we are taking Heroku. We want […] The post Heroku’s Next…
4 May 2022
Joot, a social media image optimization tool, needed to accelerate their development and deploy their application quickly. Serverless was an all-in-one solution for Joot.
25 Jan 2022
In this post, we’ll look at real-life use cases by some of our early users and see how Serverless Cloud can help solo developers be more productive.
14 Apr 2021
Every entrepreneur wonders: “Will my startup sink or swim?” When Felix Brandon and his wife Jordan Lloyd Bookey launched Zoobean, a startup focused on children’s reading, they found themselves swimming in rough waters early on. A few months after launch, the founders were invited to pitch their business on the TV show Shark Tank. What […] The post How Heroku’s…
8 Oct 2020
This summer, we announced the beta release of our new streaming data connectors between Heroku Postgres and Apache Kafka on Heroku. These connectors make Change Data Capture (CDC) possible on Heroku with minimal effort. Anyone with a Private or Shield Space, as well as a Postgres and an Apache Kafka add-on in that space, can […] The post Heroku Streaming…
22 Jul 2020
In today’s global economy, English proficiency unlocks opportunity. People all over the world are motivated to improve their English skills in order to make a better life for themselves and their families. Cambly is a language education platform that helps millions of learners advance their careers by connecting them with English-speaking tutors from a similar […] The post How a…
7 Aug 2019
CloudForecast is a bootstrapped startup that launched in 2018. This is their story of why they decided to go serverless.
9 Jul 2019
BuildCenter makes digital tools for builders. Learn how Serverless Guru helped them streamline their operations using Serverless Framework.
27 May 2019
Using a serverless architecture to send Dwolla's webhooks faster and at a lower cost.
24 Apr 2019
The SCV team at AO.com started with one serverless service. They were so impressed with the turnaround time and low maintenance overhead that the entire team went Serverless First.
22 Apr 2019
Earth Day inspires millions of people around the world to take action on behalf of our beautiful planet. For some, this means getting out and volunteering for a day with an environmental group. For others, it’s about changing our daily habits to be more mindful about things like recycling, driving, or water usage. But a […] The post Finding Inspiration…
26 Feb 2019
See how Shamrock’s serverless invoicing system handles billions of dollars of transactions with no active scaling required. Plus: their multi-cloud approach with AWS and Google.
17 Dec 2018
Sqquid uses AWS Lambda and the Serverless Framework for their core product and marketing website. See what it’s like to be a fully serverless startup.
5 Dec 2018
When the California Camp Fire displaced thousands of people from their homes, I built a simple serverless Twitter bot to help people get placed in temporary housing!
23 Jan 2018
The following is the story of how Randall Degges created a simple API to solve the common problem of external IP address lookup and how he scaled it from zero to over 10 thousand requests per second (30B/month!) using Node.js and Go on Heroku. Several years ago I created a free web service, ipify. It […] The post Scaling ipify…
9 Jan 2018
I started out my career as a chef. Now I'm a serverless developer.
21 Nov 2017
Miss our October Serverless SF Meetup? Here's the video! Learn how to hack a hectic bathroom queue serverless-ly with IoT sensors.
3 Nov 2017
We're posting the full videos and transcripts from Emit 2017! Here's Shawn from Uber on building Catalyst, their serverless platform.
1 Nov 2017
We're posting the full videos and transcripts from Emit 2017! Here's Matthew from Accenture on transforming core banking with event-driven architectures.
27 Oct 2017
Need to quickly catch up on this past quarter's announcements? Here are the top three topics to tune in on: Heroku has expanded regions availability for Private Spaces and introduced the general availability of the Dublin region on September 26, 2017. Heroku users are able to run apps in all of the following Private Spaces […] The post FY18 Q3…
26 Oct 2017
Droplr is used to share 1000s of screencasts and files every day. Here's how they empowered their growth with the Serverless Framework.
25 Oct 2017
We're posting the full videos and transcripts from Emit 2017! Here's Rob with his talk—towards a serverless event-sourced Nordstrom.
7 Sept 2017
To raise millions of dollars in donations, you need a zero-maintenance architecture that never turns a donor away
22 Aug 2017
We're happy to announce that Heroku app webhooks is now generally available for all Heroku customers. App webhooks provide notifications when your Heroku app changes, including modifications to domain settings, releases, add-ons, and dyno formations. These notifications can empower your internal communications, dashboards, bots or anything else that can receive HTTP POST requests. Integrating with […] The post Heroku Webhooks:…
7 Aug 2017
Your cheatsheet to a seamless migration.
19 Jun 2017
Why we decided to migrate our services running on docker containers to serverless stack using aws lambda functions and aws api gateway
14 Jun 2017
How to implement long-polling via Amazon Cognito and SQS
6 Apr 2017
Using Serverless Technology to Bootstrap the Platform for a Billion Dollar Business Opportunity
ServerlessHow SC5 used Serverless to create the backend for a revolutionary transportation app.
30 Mar 2017
How the US Department of Defense is Streamlining Open Source Contributions with Serverless Code
ServerlessLearn how the Defense Digital Service at the Pentagon used Serverless to automate the Developer Certificate of Origin process for contributors.
17 Mar 2017
How Serverless Partner AbstractAI leveraged the Serverless Framework and Lambda to reduce the cost of running back-end services by 95%.
31 Jan 2017
Today we’re happy to announce that the Sydney, Australia region is now generally available for use with Heroku Private Spaces. Sydney joins Virginia, Oregon, Frankfurt, and Tokyo as regions where Private Spaces can be created by any Heroku Enterprise user. Developers can now deploy Heroku apps closer to customers in the Asia-Pacific area to reduce […] The post Announcing the…
5 Jan 2017
Get a sneak peek at how MoonMail designed their serverless architecture for an infinitely scalable open source email marketing app in this guest post.
20 Dec 2016
How Shifter Introduced Serverless Hosting to WordPress Using AWS, DynamoDB & the Serverless Framework
ServerlessLearn how Shifter transforms WordPress blogs and websites into static sites to make them faster, more secure and scalable in this guest post.
24 Nov 2016
Guest author Nick den Engelsman writes about streamlining DevOps and why he and his team at BandLab decided on AWS Lambda + API Gateway and the Serverless Framework.
18 Oct 2016
Indiana based consultancy that specializes in using the latest services around container-based & event-driven architectures
13 Oct 2016
Powering the real food revolution with IoT, MQTT, and Heroku: an Interview with Freight Farms
HerokuKyle Seaman is Director of Farm Technology for Freight Farms, producer of pre-assembled, IoT-enabled, hydroponic farms inside repurposed freight containers. What is Freight Farms? Our flagship product, The Leafy Green Machine (LGM), is a complete, commercial-ready, hydroponic growing system assembled inside a repurposed shipping container. Each of our 100+ farms is connected to an IoT […] The post Powering the…
22 Sept 2016
Learn how Parallax built An Infinitely Scalable Online Recording Campaign For David Guetta & UEFA
20 Sept 2016
Two students built an alternative Australian Bureau of Statistics Census website for $10 million less than the Australian government
8 Sept 2016
Austen Ito is a software engineer at leading online fashion brand Bonobos, based in New York. Read our Bonobos customer story for more information about how Heroku has helped their business. What do you have running on Heroku? We’re running just about everything on Heroku, including our Bonobos.com website, cross-app messaging services, an API for […] The post Running the…
21 Jul 2016
Scott Raio is Co-Founder and CTO of Combatant Gentlemen], a design-to-delivery menswear e-commerce brand. What microservices are you running in Heroku Private Spaces? We’ve written an individual service for every business use case. For example, we have services for order processing, product catalog, account management, authentication, swatch display, POs, logistics, payments, etc. With all these […] The post How Combatant…
7 Apr 2016
We recently sat down for a chat with Bill Curtis, a co-founder and the CTO of Sweet Tooth (Now Smile.io), a points and rewards app for online stores worldwide. What has been your greatest challenge? We’re serving way more data today than we ever have, so scaling is mission-critical. In the past, we’ve struggled with […] The post Cyber Monday,…
17 Feb 2016
Based in Tel Aviv, Israel, Vitali Margolin is the Head of R&D for Roomer. Vitali leads a team of seven developers who built and operate the travel marketplace www.roomertravel.com and the travel protection service Life Happens, both running on Heroku. What are you running on Heroku? The four big projects are: the Roomer website, our […] The post Building a…
9 Feb 2016
This is usually a tech blog, but every now and then, we make an exception when there’s something important to say. Today, I’m going to criticise a lot of our industry’s understanding of support. Who is this article for? It’s for every software engineer giving support to users and/or customers, and every manager who works … Continue reading The 5…
3 Feb 2016
In 2013, Rafael Ördög put poker and code together, the result: Lean Poker, a competitive coding event that teaches continuous deployment and lean startup methodologies. Rafael is based in Budapest, Hungary. What’s Lean Poker? Lean Poker is a coding workshop that is designed to teach people how to practice continuous deployment and lean startup methodologies. […] The post How Lean…