At this week’s AI Summit in San Francisco, South Korean President Jae Myung Lee and some of the country’s top business leaders and researchers are meeting with NVIDIA and ecosystem partners to chart Korea’s AI progress. Building on NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang’s visit to Korea last month, this week’s discussions and announcements advance […]
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24 Jul
20 Jul
From open models to real-time simulation, AI and graphics breakthroughs are transforming media, content creation and robotics.
6 Jul
Data + AI Summit 2026 brought together over 32k+ in-person attendees across hundreds of sessions, product announcements...
18 Jun
The digital era gave the advertising and marketing industry speed; the AI era is giving it autonomous operations. For companies building next-generation technologies for advertising and marketing, the question is no longer whether to adopt AI but whether their infrastructure can support it at the speed and scale the industry demands. At Cannes Lions, running […]
17 Jun
Proactively reduce tech debt autonomously with AWS Transform – continuous modernization (preview)
AWSAWS Transform – continuous modernization (preview) automatically scans code repositories to detect, prioritize, and remediate technical debt at scale.
AWS Security Agent now adds STRIDE-based threat modeling, full repo and PR code scanning with remediation across major Git platforms, and IDE integrations via Kiro power, Claude Code plugin, and MCP — letting developers run security reviews and fix issues without context switching.
16 Jun
Amazon S3 now lets you attach up to 1 GB of rich, mutable, and queryable context directly to your objects using annotations, purpose-built for AI agents and autonomous workflows that need to discover, understand, and act on data at scale without maintaining separate metadata systems.
5 May
Enterprise AI has learned to generate. It has learned to reason. Now companies are asking the next question: How should AI act? Early agent systems have shown what’s possible, moving beyond simple prompts to take on more complex tasks. The next step is bringing those capabilities into enterprise environments — where agents must operate with […]
28 Apr
At the "What's Next with AWS" 2026 event, AWS launched Amazon Quick—an AI assistant for work with a desktop app and expanded integrations—and expanded Amazon Connect into four agentic AI solutions for supply chain, hiring, customer experience, and healthcare. AWS also expended its partnership with OpenAI, bringing models like GPT-5.5, Codex, and Managed Agents to Amazon Bedrock in limited preview.
24 Mar
Advancing Open Source AI, NVIDIA Donates Dynamic Resource Allocation Driver for GPUs to Kubernetes Community
NvidiaArtificial intelligence has rapidly emerged as one of the most critical workloads in modern computing. For the vast majority of enterprises, this workload runs on Kubernetes, an open source platform that automates the deployment, scaling and management of containerized applications. To help the global developer community manage high-performance AI infrastructure with greater transparency and efficiency, […]
1 Mar
Autonomous networks — intelligent, self-managing telecommunications operations — are moving from a future vision to a current priority for telecom operators. In the latest NVIDIA State of AI in Telecommunications report, network automation emerged as the top AI use case for investment and return on investment. Automation is different from autonomy. Beyond executing predefined workflows, […]
AI-RAN is moving from lab to field, showing that a software-defined approach is the only viable way to build future AI-native wireless networks. Ahead of Mobile World Congress (MWC), running March 2-5 in Barcelona, NVIDIA and Nokia announced new AI-RAN collaborations with top telecom operators across Europe, Asia and North America, powered by NVIDIA AI-RAN […]
11 Feb
From Claude Code to Cursor, we're big adopters of AI coding tools at Dropbox. The early results have been promising, but there are still a lot of open questions about how to work with these tools most effectively and where they can have the most impact. To push this conversation forward, we hosted an executive roundtable at our San Francisco…
27 Oct 2025
This year’s ROSCon conference heads to Singapore, bringing together the global robotics developer community behind Robot Operating System (ROS) — the world’s most widely adopted open framework for building robots. At the conference, running through Wednesday, Oct. 29, NVIDIA announced collaborations with partners and the Open Source Robotics Alliance (OSRA), as well as new robotics […]
24 Oct 2025
From the stages of the PyTorch Conference to hackathons and workshops, Open Source AI Week spotlighted the innovation, collaboration and community driving open-source AI forward. Here are some highlights from the event: Honoring open-source contributions: Jonathan Dekhtiar, senior deep learning framework engineer at NVIDIA, received the PyTorch Contributor Award for his key role in designing […]
4 Sept 2025
The AI revolution presents a critical challenge: moving from experimentation to production. This year, Heroku has evolved beyond a traditional PaaS to become an AI PaaS, a fully managed platform designed to solve this problem and accelerate the delivery of AI-powered apps. With new capabilities like AppLink, Managed Inference and Agents, and MCP on Heroku, Heroku now provides a fully…
26 Jun 2025
Partners are a critical part of the community in driving customer success in technology adoption. Today, we’re thrilled to announce new solution expertise and program benefits for Salesforce Consulting Partners to expand their practice with Heroku AI PaaS. Building on our announcement from earlier this year, today’s announcement is designed to deepen technical expertise and […] The post Elevate Your…
5 Apr 2025
Microsoft is holding an AI Agents Hackathon, and we want to see what you can build with Python! We'll have 20+ live streams showing you how to build AI agents with Python using popular agent frameworks and Microsoft technologies. Then, you can submit your project for a chance to win prizes, including a Best in Python prize! The post Build…
4 Mar 2025
Managing event-driven architecture can be challenging. For many organizations, this includes a diverse set of eventing services and buses, often across multiple organizations. Developers must manage authentication and pub/sub services across teams and applications. We’re thrilled to introduce Heroku Eventing, a powerful tool designed to help teams manage events more efficiently and securely. This new […] The post Heroku Eventing:…
10 Feb 2025
TDX25 comes to San Francisco this March 5-6. 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 Agentforce and Salesforce technologies. Whether you’re new to Heroku or a seasoned pro, there’s something for everyone at this year’s event. […] The post Heroku at…
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…
28 Aug 2024
Over a decade ago, Heroku co-founder Adam Wiggins published the Twelve-Factor App methodology as a way to codify the best practices for writing SaaS applications. In that time, cloud-native has become the default for all new applications, and technologies like Kubernetes are widespread. Best-practices for software have evolved, and we believe that Twelve-Factor also needs […] The post Updating Twelve-Factor:…
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…
12 Feb 2024
The countdown has begun for Salesforce’s annual developer conference, TrailblazerDX, set to take place on March 6-7, 2024, in San Francisco and streaming live on Salesforce+. This year’s conference has been touted as the “AI developer conference of the year,” promising a wealth of insights and experiences for developers, architects, and IT leaders. If you’re […] The post TrailblazerDX 2024:…
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…
11 Dec 2020
This post previously appeared on the Salesforce Architects blog. Event-driven application architectures have proven to be effective for implementing enterprise solutions using loosely coupled services that interact by exchanging asynchronous events. Salesforce enables event-driven architectures (EDAs) with Platform Events and Change Data Capture (CDC) events as well as triggers and Apex callouts, which makes the […] The post Extend Flows…
22 Jun 2020
This blog post is based on From Project to Productionized, a talk given at PyCon 2020 at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. You can use this post today to learn how to deploy a Python application on Heroku. More specifically, we’ll show you how to deploy Django apps, including setting up your Django configuration, building […] The post From…
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…
26 Dec 2018
The Ruby committers have again continued their annual holiday tradition of gifting us a new Ruby version: Ruby 2.6 was released today, including the long awaited Just-In-Time (JIT) compiler that the Ruby team has been working on for more than a year. Just-In-Time compilation requires Ruby to spin up a compiler process on startup, and […] The post Ruby 2.6…
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…
29 Nov 2016
Heroku recently released [a managed Apache Kafka][1] offering. As a Node.js developer, I wanted to demystify Kafka by sharing a simple yet practical use case with the many Node.js developers who are curious how this technology might be useful. At Heroku we use Kafka internally for a number of uses including data pipelines. I thought […] The post Data Pipelines…
11 Nov 2014
We’re very excited that our Heroku colleagues Matz, Nobu and Ko1 will all be visiting from Japan soon to attend RubyConf, and it’s especially serendipitous that it is happening in such close proximity to Thanksgiving. Not only is Thanksgiving one of the few holidays that Japan and the U.S. share, it’s a holiday that brings […] The post Announcing A…
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…
9 Aug 2013
The lineup for BaRuCo 2013 looks amazing, with speakers such as Aaron Patterson, Katrina Owen, Sandi Metz, and Ruby’s inventor Yukihiro…
9 Jul 2013
The first Music Hack Day — organized by our very own Dave Haynes — was held in July 2009 in London, UK. Since then there have been over 3…
25 Apr 2013
Late last year, six women crowded in to a Mitte cafe booth and listened to Berlin Geekettes founder Jess Erickson share her idea: Berlin’s first all-women hackathon. With SoundCloud’s Amelie Anglade the then newly-appointed the Berlin Geekettes Tech Ambassador, we agreed that it was a great idea to produce the hackathon as a partnership between the Geekettes and the women…
23 Jan 2013
Last weekend, we sponsored and attended our first PennApps, the world’s largest student run hackathon held at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Nearly 500 students participated from a variety of universities across the US and elsewhere. Students were given 36 hours to get into teams, hack on projects, then show them off to the judges. The results were astounding.…
2 Oct 2012
On Saturday, we hosted Story Hack Boston along with P2PU and Mashery at the MIT Media Lab. About 50 people from content and technical backgrounds joined us to create new story telling experiences. The crowd was pretty evenly split, which made for a lot of awesome collaboration.
30 Aug 2012
Just over a week ago we had our first internal hackathon at SoundCloud. You can read (and listen!) about it on our community blog or read…
12 Jul 2012
A few weeks ago, I attended News Hack Day in San Francisco. News Hack Days are events that bring together journalists, developers and designers for multi day creative coding and brainstorming sessions. I really like the idea of hack days that bring together people from different backgrounds. After chatting with a few journalists, it became obvious to me that recording…
29 Jun 2012
SoundCloud loves hack days. Our latest hack day adventure brought us to Music Hack Day in Barcelona and we thought we’d share a bit of the great experience we had there. Photo by Thomas Bonte
17 Apr 2012
On Saturday, I joined over a hundred other hackers at HackTO. This has become a regular event in the Toronto tech scene, thanks to excellent organizing by Leila Boujnane and Corey Reid. SoundCloud joined several other API providers, including Atomic Reach, Context.IO, FreshBooks, Shopify, TinEye, Twilio, Trendspottr, WordPress and YellowAPI. The idea behind the event is simple: find a team…
14 Feb 2012
This past weekend, hundreds of hackers showed up at the TokBox HQ with a mission to build the future of music. The event started with pitches — giving sponsors a chance to show off their APIs — followed by in-depth workshops where attendees could learn more about each platform and ask questions related to their project. Once the hacking time…
3 Jan 2012
Last month we attended Music Hack Day London 2011. A special one, Music Hack Day was born in London 3 years ago and we were happy to attend a hack day again in it’s homeland. Picture For those who do not know of Music Hack Day, it’s a great weekend-long event aimed at music and sound hackers. Anyone can attend…
11 Nov 2011
Last weekend was another successful Music Hack Day Boston jam-packed with cool hacks, and hackers alike. We are always excited to get involved, meet new and interesting people, and of course hack!
27 Oct 2011
With excitement building for the Velocity Conference in Berlin, we are happy to announce a pre-event meet up on Monday, November 7 at the…
2 Sept 2011
Berlin is playing host to the oh-so-sold-out JSConf.eu conference happening October 1-2. Some members of the SoundCloud engineering crew…
28 Aug 2011
A quick virtual heads-up for developers, hackers and coding enthusiasts in the Berlin-area: SoundCloud is very happy to support the upcoming…
29 Jul 2011
The venerable O’Reilly Velocity Conference is coming to Berlin on the 8th and 9th of November. SoundCloud is doing what we can to help…
8 Oct 2010
Team SoundCloud hacking at Music Hack Day Barcelona Last weekend a team of SoundCloud attended Music Hack Day Barcelona. This blog post is…
31 Aug 2010
A few days ago a small team of SoundCloud developers (@goldjunge, @jberkel, @purzelrakete and @sohm) participated in the first node.js…