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24 Jul

NVIDIA Writers 1 min read

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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18 Jun

Jamie Allan 4 min read

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 […]

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5 May

Kari Briski 4 min read

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 […]

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28 Apr

AWS News Blog Team 3 min read

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.

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24 Mar

Justin Boitano 4 min read

Artificial 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, […]

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1 Mar

Amogh Dendukuri 4 min read

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, […]

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Kanika Atri 6 min read

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 […]

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11 Feb

Kazuaki Okumura,Mike White,Kevin Altschuler,Facundo Agriel,Ishan Mishra,Eric Wang,Dmitriy Meyerzon,Dmitriy Meyerzon,Hicham Badri,Appu Shaji,Craig Wilhite 4 min read

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…

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27 Oct 2025

Kalyan Vadrevu 3 min read

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 […]

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24 Oct 2025

Anish Maddipoti 12 min read

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 […]

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4 Sept 2025

Lauren Groccia 3 min read

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…

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26 Jun 2025

Nicole Klusman 5 min read

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…

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5 Apr 2025

Pamela Fox 3 min read

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…

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4 Mar 2025

Kim Harrison 2 min read

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:…

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10 Feb 2025

Emily Todd 3 min read

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…

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5 Sept 2024

Emily Todd 5 min read

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…

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28 Aug 2024

Vish Abrams 2 min read

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:…

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12 Feb 2024

Gillian Gual Hinkle 5 min read

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:…

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21 Jan 2021

Abe Dearmer 4 min read

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…

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11 Dec 2020

Chris Marino 10 min read

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…

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22 Jun 2020

Ed Morley 13 min read

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…

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15 Nov 2019

Lee Rong 5 min read

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…

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26 Dec 2018

Jonan Scheffler 5 min read

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…

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13 Sept 2017

Jonan Scheffler 3 min read

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…

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29 Nov 2016

Chris Castle 8 min read

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…

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11 Nov 2014

Matthew Creager 1 min read

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…

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7 Oct 2014

Scott Persinger 6 min read

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…

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25 Apr 2013

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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…

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23 Jan 2013

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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.…

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2 Oct 2012

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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.

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12 Jul 2012

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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…

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29 Jun 2012

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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

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17 Apr 2012

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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…

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14 Feb 2012

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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…

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3 Jan 2012

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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…

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11 Nov 2011

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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!

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27 Oct 2011

2 Sept 2011

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Berlin is playing host to the oh-so-sold-out JSConf.eu conference happening October 1-2. Some members of the SoundCloud engineering crew…

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28 Aug 2011

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A quick virtual heads-up for developers, hackers and coding enthusiasts in the Berlin-area: SoundCloud is very happy to support the upcoming…

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