NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang today visited the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, to commission an NVIDIA DGX GB300 system — bringing one of the world’s most powerful AI platforms fully online for the students, researchers and faculty at the U.S. military’s flagship graduate university. “Our nation depends on our men and women […]
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23 Jul
1 Jul
Kotlin support is now available in BlueJ, one of the most established environments for teaching introductory object-oriented programming (OOP). This work is the result of a collaboration between JetBrains and the BlueJ team at King’s College London, including Professor Michael Kölling and Dr. Neil Brown, whose work has shaped programming education for decades. Download BlueJ […]
10 May
“You are entering the world at an extraordinary moment,” NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang told graduates as he delivered the keynote address at Carnegie Mellon University’s 128th commencement ceremony on Sunday. “A new industry is being born. A new era of science and discovery is beginning.” “No generation has entered the world with more […]
7 May
In the Kotlin Ecosystem Mentorship Program pilot, mentors and mentees worked together on real Kotlin open-source projects to make their first meaningful community contribution. Four pairs successfully completed the two-month program, and one eligible pair was randomly selected in the prize drawing to receive the grand prize – a trip to KotlinConf 2026 in Munich! […]
12 Feb
At leading institutions across the globe, the NVIDIA DGX Spark desktop supercomputer is bringing data‑center‑class AI to lab benches, faculty offices and students’ systems. There’s even a DGX Spark hard at work in the South Pole, at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory run by the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The compact supercomputer’s petaflop‑class performance enables local deployment […]
22 Dec 2025
The works of Plato state that when humans have an experience, some level of change occurs in their brain, which is powered by memory — specifically long-term memory. This change is what Andre Fenton, professor of neural science at New York University, and Abhishek Kumar, assistant professor of cell and regenerative biology at the University […]
4 Dec 2025
For 25 years, the NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship Program has supported graduate students doing outstanding work relevant to NVIDIA technologies. Today, the program announced the latest awards of up to $60,000 each to 10 Ph.D. students involved in research that spans all areas of computing innovation. Selected from a highly competitive applicant pool, the awardees will […]
20 Nov 2025
The Largest Digital Zoo: Biology Model Trained on NVIDIA GPUs Identifies Over a Million Species
NvidiaTanya Berger-Wolf’s first computational biology project started as a bet with a colleague: that she could build an AI model capable of identifying individual zebras faster than a zoologist. She won. Now, the director of the Translational Data Analytics Institute and a professor at The Ohio State University, Berger-Wolf is taking on the whole animal […]
5 Sept 2024
Dreamforce comes to San Francisco this September 17-19. Heroku, a Salesforce company, has a packed schedule with a variety of sessions and activities designed to enhance your knowledge of our platform and integrations with Salesforce technologies. Learn more about Heroku’s latest innovations by adding us to your agenda via the Dreamforce Agenda Builder. Here’s where […] The post Discover Heroku…
31 Aug 2023
While it’s not our usual approach to announce hiring updates on our product blog, we’re pleased to share our ongoing dedication to improving the Heroku experience. Focused Growth and Progress Heroku is entering a new phase of investment, and as a part of this initiative, we are opening up new positions for individuals who would […] The post Join us…
22 Feb 2023
We have a saying around the Heroku team thanks to our awesome engineering leader Gail Frederick. She reminds us of this often: “Feedback is a gift”. These are words we try to live by both internally and with our customers. Feedback: What is Heroku investing in? What has shipped? We had a very busy 2022! […] The post Heroku Feedback…
17 Feb 2023
2022 was a transformational year for Heroku. In this post, we share how we’ve been enriching the Heroku developer experience in 2022, especially since committing to Heroku’s Next Chapter. We are dedicated to supporting our customers of all sizes who continue to invest and build their projects, careers, and businesses on Heroku. Public Roadmap As […] The post Heroku 2022…
5 Oct 2022
While it is a little unusual for us to share a hiring post on our product blog, I’ve been asked about our investment in Heroku repeatedly, so we want shine the spotlight on our efforts to grow the team. We are hiring for both product and engineering, from developers to engineering managers working across our […] The post Heroku is…
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…
23 Aug 2022
Every day we learn more about the importance of good air quality. Here are some tips to help you improve air quality inside your house. How to Measure First, you are going to want to be able to measure air quality in your house. There are a few different things you want to measure: PM2.5 […]
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…
2 Mar 2021
There has been heightened attention (and in some cases, scrutiny) on the reopening plans for K-12 school districts across the nation. If the decision of whether or not to send your kid back to school isn’t already highly charged (and stressful!) enough, parents of K-12 children now have another worry to contend with: attackers looking […] The post CISA Reports:…
21 Jan 2021
The Xplenty (Integrate.io) platform allows organizations to integrate, process, and prepare data for analytics in the cloud. Xplenty is also available as a Heroku Add-on. Abe Dearmer is the company’s COO. Often, innovation sparks innovation in unforeseen ways. In the early 1950’s, television brought the world an entirely new experience that not only changed people’s […] The post An Iconic…
9 Dec 2020
The need for speed takes on a new meaning in the face of a pandemic. With millions of lives at stake, everyone in the healthcare ecosystem, from medical facilities to laboratories to equipment manufacturers, races to do their part to help curb the spread. With the coronavirus, the world put widespread diagnostic testing at the […] The post Coding at…
4 Dec 2020
For many of us, changing jobs seems like the best way to grow professionally or advance our careers. Not so for Edd Morgan, Senior Director of Engineering at BiggerPockets. During his first year in college, he became the startup’s first employee. Twelve years later, Edd reflects on his unusually stable career path and how he’s […] The post Serendipity Strikes:…
20 Oct 2020
Sometimes, innovation is born in the midst of a crisis. Unexpected challenges and a sense of urgency force companies to look for new ways of keeping the business going, even as the odds stack up against them. This was the case for one of our biggest customers Matalan, a major fashion and homeware retailer in […] The post A Pandemic…
4 Sept 2020
I finally got my home network in a place where I am happy with it. I wanted to share my setup and what I learned about it. There has never been a better time to set up a great home network; there are several new tools that have made this easier and better than in […]
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…
30 Jun 2020
It is never easy to know how to react, communicate, or at times, even feel, during something as heartbreaking and real as the struggles that our fellow humans face through no fault of their own. As Herokai, we stand in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement and want to share some of our thoughts […] The post Black Lives…
23 Jun 2020
Some say that the only constant in life is change. That may be true, but often what’s more important than the change itself is how we react. We all go through life trying to manage change (albeit with varying degrees of success), so we can better cope with it, learn from it, and adapt. Like […] The post Electric’s Advice…
11 Jun 2020
Yesterday, I took my rusty old bike out of the basement and rode through Golden Gate Park to Ocean Beach and back. The 6+ mile ride may seem short to some, but for me, it was something I never thought I’d be doing just a short time ago. I’m on a roll (literally!) that started […] The post Team Heroku…
1 May 2020
The other day, I was sitting at my work desk feeling too sedentary, too isolated, and altogether too down about my restricted life during this coronavirus pandemic. Then, an email popped into my inbox from one of my favorite Heroku customers. Active for Good was announcing their latest activity challenge starting on May 1st. Every […] The post A True…
16 Mar 2020
A word of caution from a former AP Computer Science teacher who, with zero real-world programming experience, quit her dependable teaching gig to become a software engineer: Imposter Syndrome is never late to class. When we grow competent in our craft, yet continue to feel unqualified for our role, that feeling is known as "Imposter […] The post “Do I…
2 Mar 2020
Meditation, like the foundations of software, is built on top of a binary state: an inhale and an exhale, a breath in and a breath out, a one and a zero. We often believe that to engage in meditation, we need to place ourselves in a room of absolute silence, to dress in comfortable linens, […] The post Culture at…
20 Feb 2020
Wade Wegner is SVP of Product for Salesforce Platform. On a recent and all-too-short trip to London, I was humbled to have developers in the community spend time with me and other product managers at the UK Salesforce Tower. Building on the massively popular open dialogue with developers that we initiated at Dreamforce last year, […] The post Join us…
13 Feb 2020
As CEO of Disney, Michael Eisner had a policy that any employee could come to his office and pitch an idea. He believed that breaking down hierarchical barriers allowed innovative ideas to come from anywhere, and it worked. Disney invested in many of those pitches, some of which became the kernels for films like The […] The post Using Research…
25 Dec 2019
When Heroku launched in 2007 there was only a single Ruby version that could be used on the platform. In 2012 Heroku began to support multiple Ruby versions. Since then, we’ve had a holiday tradition of releasing the new versions of Ruby on the same day they come out, which always happens on Christmas day […] The post Ruby 2.7.0:…
15 Nov 2019
Today, many people with diabetes are choosing to manage their condition using devices called continuous glucose monitors (CGMs). Not only do they replace the need for most finger prick testing, but they also provide a stream of data round the clock. However, like all data, it’s only as useful as the tools that analyze it. […] The post Improving the…
22 Oct 2019
As part of my MBA at Carnegie Mellon University, I enrolled in a Leadership development certificate program. I was given the opportunity to work with an amazing Leadership Coach, (Laura Maxwell). Laura helped me on my journey of “overcoming my fear of failure”. As part of the program, I was able to share my story […] The post Overcoming Fear…
15 Aug 2019
This is the first post in a two-part series about accessibility. Part two shares our design and development process addressing one aspect of accessibility in the Heroku product. Equality as a Salesforce Value We at Salesforce firmly believe that access to information and the ability to contribute to our digital environment should be recognized as […] The post Equality Through…
9 Jul 2019
What is Duke? No one knows his species or genus. People say he’s a Java Bean or a Software Agent, but all we know for sure is that he reminds us of the more than twenty-year legacy of the Java language and its community. The Java community has such an affinity for Duke that designers […] The post Samurai Duke…
2 Jul 2019
Pride is a word with many meanings. It can mean a job well done. It can mean satisfaction in who you are or what you stand for. For me, it is all of that and more. It is one of the values that runs deeply at Heroku and what keeps me here — pride in […] The post Pride Runs…
14 May 2019
At a rough estimate over half the team at Heroku are remote workers, including myself. We are affectionately called Remokai. We hail from a dizzying number of countries, communicating through email, video calls, and instant messages, from cities, towns, beaches, and parks—a few weeks ago I had a meeting while cycling through central London. It’s […] The post On Making…
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…
13 Sept 2017
Heroku is very fortunate to have a strong community of developers that are excited and passionate about our product. Every day we hear from customers who tell us how much easier Heroku has made their lives, and they frequently share stories about interesting technical projects we’ve helped them bring to life. Our customers love us, […] The post Best of…
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…
2 Aug 2016
Today we’re announcing two new features that will help you better manage and run apps on Heroku: Threshold Alerting and Hobby dyno metrics. Threshold Alerting provides the ability to set notification thresholds for key performance and health indicators of your app. We’ve also extended basic Application Metrics to Hobby dynos to provide basic health monitoring […] The post Threshold Alerting…
13 Jul 2016
Andrey Petrov is the author of urllib3, the creator of Briefmetrics and ssh-chat, and a former Googler and Y Combinator alum. He’s back again to free us of our old ways of thinking, so that we can embrace what's really special about receivers in Go. When getting started with Go, there is a strong temptation […] The post Neither self…
15 Jun 2015
Today we are announcing that Heroku’s new dynos are generally available. This new suite of dynos gives you an expanded set of options and prices when it comes to building apps at any scale on Heroku, no matter whether you’re preparing for traffic from Black Friday shoppers or deploying your first lines of code. Thanks […] The post New Dynos…
7 May 2015
Today, we’re introducing a suite of new dynos. These dynos introduce new capabilities and price points and reduce the cost of scaling businesses on Heroku. These new dynos enter beta today. We’ve always provided a developer experience so you can create amazing apps, from hacking on new technologies and personal projects to building production applications […] The post New Dyno…
7 Oct 2014
With the Salesforce hackathon fast approaching, I wanted to give a quick overview on building apps that use the force.com APIs (part of the Salesforce1 platform). The force APIs are rich and varied, so sometimes just getting started can seem a little daunting. What services are provided? The force.com APIs give your application access to […] The post Getting started…