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23 Jul

Eric L. Barnes 1 min read

Laravel is gauging interest in the Founders Summit, a one-day gathering in November 2026 for founders and leaders running businesses built on Laravel. The post Laravel Announces the Founders Summit, a One-Day Event for Founders appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Laravel Newsletter to get Laravel articles like this directly in your inbox.

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22 Jul

Paul Redmond 1 min read

Laravel 13.21 adds a #[RouteKey] attribute for Eloquent route model binding, a base64 validation rule, a RequestAttribute contextual attribute, and new output formats for the Image component. The post RouteKey Model Attribute in Laravel 13.21 appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Laravel Newsletter to get Laravel articles like this directly in your inbox.

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21 Jul

Serverless Team 1 min read

AWS Lambda MicroVMs are a new compute primitive for running untrusted and agent-generated code in fully isolated Firecracker virtual machines. The Serverless Framework brings them into serverless.yml as Sandboxes, with one-command deploys and a full local MicroVMs emulator so you can build and test before you ship.

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20 Jul

Yannick Lyn Fatt 1 min read

Laravel Installer v5.31.0 introduces a command to scaffold Laravel packages, along with environment variable propagation for node-less setups and automated PHP version matching for GitHub Actions. The post Scaffold Packages with the `laravel package` Command in Laravel Installer v5.31.0 appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Laravel Newsletter to get Laravel articles like this directly in your inbox.

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17 Jul

Viliam Sedliak 1 min read

🎉 Kotlin turns 15! 🎉 For 15 years, you’ve helped shape Kotlin into the language it is today. Whether you’ve built apps, contributed to the ecosystem, taught others, or simply chosen Kotlin for your next project – thank you for being part of the journey. Today, we’re celebrating Kotlin and the people who have made […]

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16 Jul

Paul Redmond 1 min read

Learn how to define a Laravel route that responds to the new HTTP QUERY method and use Laravel Scout's database driver to build a search API endpoint. The post Build a Laravel Scout Search Endpoint With the HTTP QUERY Method appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Laravel Newsletter to get Laravel articles like this directly in your inbox.

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15 Jul

Paul Redmond 1 min read

Laravel 13.20.0 introduces an Image facade for resizing, converting, and storing images, along with a WithoutMiddleware controller attribute, a separate Redis session prefix, and quiet bulk increment methods on Eloquent. The post First-Party Image Processing in Laravel 13.20 appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Laravel Newsletter to get Laravel articles like this directly in your inbox.

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13 Jul

Esra Kayabali 4 min read

On July 13, 2006, we launched Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) as one of the first three services available to customers, alongside Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3. We had learned firsthand that distributed systems need a reliable way to pass messages between components without creating tight dependencies. If one service called another directly and […]

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Yannick Lyn Fatt 1 min read

Uvora is a free macOS menu bar app that indexes your Laravel projects locally and opens any of them from a single keyboard shortcut. The post Uvora: A macOS Menu Bar App for Finding Laravel Projects appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Laravel Newsletter to get Laravel articles like this directly in your inbox.

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8 Jul

JMac 1 min read

Introducing a built-in AI Review of your Shift. Providing a second pass on your upgrade, guided by Shift's detailed comments combined with AI's context. The post AI Review for Laravel Upgrades appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Laravel Newsletter to get Laravel articles like this directly in your inbox.

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Paul Redmond 1 min read

Laravel 13.19.0 adds an Http::query() client method and query/queryJson testing helpers for the HTTP QUERY verb, plus a reduceInto collection method, a counted string helper, and bulk SQS job dispatching. The post HTTP Query Method Support in Laravel 13.19 appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Laravel Newsletter to get Laravel articles like this directly in your inbox.

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3 Jul

Yannick Lyn Fatt 1 min read

EnvKit is a free desktop app that bundles nginx or Apache, multiple PHP versions, databases, and trusted .test HTTPS into one control panel. The post EnvKit: A Local Development Stack for Laravel on Windows and macOS appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Laravel Newsletter to get Laravel articles like this directly in your inbox.

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2 Jul

Paul Redmond 1 min read

phpcpd-next is a maintained, dependency-free successor to Sebastian Bergmann's phpcpd that finds duplicated PHP code, including reordered and gapped clones. The post A Copy/Paste Detector CLI for PHP 8.5+ appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Laravel Newsletter to get Laravel articles like this directly in your inbox.

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1 Jul

Ksenia Shneyveys 3 min read

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 […]

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Paul Redmond 1 min read

Laravel 13.18.0 exposes jobs-processed counts on the WorkerStopping event, adds graceful shutdown to schedule:work, introduces priority-based dev command registration, and hardens the Number helpers against INF/NAN. The post Worker Metrics on the WorkerStopping Event in Laravel 13.18 appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Laravel Newsletter to get Laravel articles like this directly in your inbox.

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30 Jun

Sébastien Stormacq 6 min read

AWS Certificate Manager now supports the ACME protocol for public TLS certificates, enabling automated issuance and renewal through any ACMEv2-compatible client on any workload. Administrators get centralized governance, IAM-based access controls, and domain scoping, reducing operational risk as certificate lifetimes continue to reduce.

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Viliam Sedliak 4 min read

Hi everyone! May and June brought so much Kotlin news that I needed a little extra space for this roundup. Kotlin turned 15, Kotlin 2.4.0 arrived with new capabilities for developers on every platform, and I found plenty of ways to learn, experiment, build AI agents and AI-powered applications, and explore useful Kotlin Multiplatform libraries. […]

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Paul Redmond 1 min read

A PHP command-line tool that copies production databases into development, CI, and test environments while anonymizing PII and recording a signed audit trail. The post Clonio CLI: Clone Production Databases With Anonymized Data appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Laravel Newsletter to get Laravel articles like this directly in your inbox.

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29 Jun

Marco Behler 2 min read

Starting from IntelliJ IDEA 2026.2, JetBrains will sunset Kotlin Notebook as a product and will no longer maintain it. The plugin will remain available on an open-source model so the community can continue its development. Below, we explain why we’re making this change, how it affects current Kotlin Notebook users, what comes next, and how […]

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26 Jun

Alex Six 1 min read

Calling all Filament users – want to help make Filament faster? As of today, the team has launched some big performance upgrades across all of the first-party Filament packages into beta and they need your help to test the releases in some real-world applications! Read on for more information about the changes that have been made! The post Help make…

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24 Jun

Paul Redmond 1 min read

Laravel 13.17.0 adds first-class route metadata support, Postgres transaction pooler integration, a dev:list command, and a Should Not Retry exception handler for queue jobs. The post Route Metadata Support in Laravel 13.17 appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Laravel Newsletter to get Laravel articles like this directly in your inbox.

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22 Jun

Eric L. Barnes 1 min read

JetBrains has partnered with LinkedIn Connected Apps to let developers display a usage-based proficiency badge for PhpStorm and other JetBrains IDEs directly on their profile. The post Showcase Your PhpStorm Expertise on LinkedIn appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Laravel Newsletter to get Laravel articles like this directly in your inbox.

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18 Jun

Channy Yun (윤석찬) 3 min read

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) service auto scaling automatically adjusts task counts to meet workload demand with comprehensive scaling policies, including predictive scaling for recurring traffic patterns, scheduled scaling for planned events, and target tracking to scale dynamically on real-time metrics. You can choose proactive scaling by using predictive scaling (automatic) and scheduled scaling […]

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Eric L. Barnes 1 min read

CultRepo has released a teaser for The Story of PHP, a JetBrains-sponsored documentary featuring Taylor Otwell, Fabien Potencier, Nikita Popov, and more. The post Watch the Teaser for 'The Story of PHP' Documentary appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Laravel Newsletter to get Laravel articles like this directly in your inbox.

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17 Jun

Paul Redmond 1 min read

Laravel 13.16.0 adds an artisan dev command for running development processes, a whenFilledEnum request method, withCookies on all responses, and an array maintenance mode driver for parallel testing. The post The artisan dev Command in Laravel 13.16.0 appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Laravel Newsletter to get Laravel articles like this directly in your inbox.

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16 Jun

15 Jun

Esra Kayabali 6 min read

AWS WAF launches AI traffic monetization, a new Bot Control capability that enables content providers and publishers price, meter, and collect payment from AI bots and agents accessing their content and APIs. AWS WAF now lets you set a price for that access, accept payment through third-party providers, and grant scoped access directly at the edge.

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11 Jun

Eric L. Barnes 1 min read

Laracon US 2026 has announced its complete speaker lineup for July 28-29 in Boston, headlined by Taylor Otwell, Aaron Francis, Nuno Maduro, and Kent C. Dodds. The post Laracon US 2026 Reveals Its Full Speaker Lineup appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Laravel Newsletter to get Laravel articles like this directly in your inbox.

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Eric L. Barnes 1 min read

JetBrains and The PHP Foundation have launched the first State of PHP survey, gathering data on how PHP developers work, what tools they use, and where the language should go next. The post The State of PHP 2026 Survey Is Now Open appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Laravel Newsletter to get Laravel articles like this directly in your…

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10 Jun

Paul Redmond 1 min read

Laravel 13.15.0 adds typed translation accessors, JSON Schema deserialization, a dedicated Cloud queue driver, and security fixes for date validation and route unserialization. The post Typed Translation Accessors in Laravel 13.15.0 appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Laravel Newsletter to get Laravel articles like this directly in your inbox.

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9 Jun

Paul Redmond 1 min read

Laravel 13.14 adds JsonSchema::fromArray() for turning JSON Schema arrays back into Type objects, queue inheritance fixes, job inspection improvements, and several HTTP client and mail fixes. The post JSON Schema Deserialization in Laravel 13.14 appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Laravel Newsletter to get Laravel articles like this directly in your inbox.

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5 Jun

Channy Yun (윤석찬) 3 min read

You can use the new console experience on Amazon Bedrock to browse and compare the latest AI models side by side, organize work into projects with streamlined evaluation workflows, and access project-aware live documentation with auto-prefilled code snippets ready to copy and run.

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3 Jun

Sébastien Stormacq 6 min read

Amazon Cognito now offers multi-Region replication that automatically synchronizes user data, credentials, and pool configurations to a secondary AWS Region, enabling uninterrupted authentication during regional failovers without forced password resets—plus new support for customer managed KMS keys for encryption control.

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1 Jun

28 May

Channy Yun (윤석찬) 5 min read

AWS launches the next generation of AWS Resilience Hub with a significantly expanded experience that brings together a new application model, dependency discovery assessment, generative AI-powered failure mode analysis, modular resilience policies, and organization-wide reporting.

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27 May

Taylor Jacobsen 2 min read

We’re excited to welcome four outstanding community leaders as our newest AWS Heroes. These individuals embody the spirit of collaboration and knowledge sharing that makes the AWS community thrive. From building AI-powered tools that help fellow builders navigate AWS re:Invent, to leading some of the largest AWS communities in Latin America, to sharing deep cloud […]

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21 May

Daria Voronina 9 min read

Kotlin turns 15 this year, and it really is everywhere. It powers systems behind everyday moments, such as tapping to pay, buying commuter rail tickets, using in-flight entertainment, and even filing tax returns online. As AI continues to reshape how software gets built, Kotlin’s growing real-world impact reflects the importance of languages and tools that […]

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Anton Yalyshev 7 min read

Upgrade rhythms vary significantly among Kotlin’s user base. Some teams update whenever a new release lands without a second thought. On the other hand, a team inside a regulated organization moves on a multi-quarter cycle and treats every dependency as something that has to be reviewed, approved, and then frozen in production for a while. […]

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20 May

Alina Dolgikh 8 min read

Years of productivity-focused design are now visible in the data. Pragmatism has been central to Kotlin’s design from day one. The language prioritizes the developer’s convenience and productivity over academic purity or feature ambition. Developers describe working in Kotlin in a fairly consistent way: more time spent on what you’re trying to build, less time […]

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15 May

Ekaterina Volodko 1 min read

AI is rapidly changing the way developers write, review, learn, and maintain code. Code completion, AI chat assistants, autonomous coding agents, and other tools are giving rise to new workflows almost every month. But one important question remains: How well do these tools actually work with Kotlin? We want to better understand how Kotlin developers […]

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13 May

Viliam Sedliak 6 min read

TL;DR New “val inside parentheses” syntax is being introduced to allow for name-based destructuring. Additionally, new syntax with square brackets is being introduced for positional destructuring. Both are currently Experimental (enabled using the -Xname-based-destructuring=only-syntax compiler argument) and will become Stable in a future release. In the distant future, the behavior of the “val outside parentheses” […]

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7 May

Ksenia Shneyveys 3 min read

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! […]

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6 May

Sébastien Stormacq 6 min read

AWS announces the general availability of the AWS MCP Server, a managed remote Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that gives AI agents and coding assistants secure, authenticated access to all AWS services. The AWS MCP Server is part of the Agent Toolkit for AWS, a suite of tooling that includes the MCP Server, skills, and plugins that help coding agents…

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5 May

4 May

Viliam Sedliak 4 min read

Hi everyone! April brought exciting community news with the announcement of the Golden Kodee finalists, along with Kotlin and tooling releases, multiplatform progress, and fresh backend resources. I also came across the new Kotlin Professional Certificate on LinkedIn Learning, which is a great way to build your skills. And if you want something more playful, […]

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19 Mar

Keshav Pokkuluri 1 min read

We’ve transitioned to a Sustaining Engineering model to better serve the customers who rely on us every day. Our mission is simple: to provide the most stable, secure, and reliable environment for your apps and data. We will continue releasing features and functionality that align with our Sustaining Engineering goals and provide a more robust and efficient platform to our…

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Eric Black 4 min read

Heroku CLI v11 is now available. This release represents the most significant architectural overhaul in years, completing our migration to ECMAScript Modules (ESM) and oclif v4. This modernization brings faster performance, a new semantic color system, and aligns the CLI with modern JavaScript standards. While v11 introduces breaking changes to legacy namespaces, the benefits are […] The post Modernizing the…

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Jesse Brown 1 min read

Modern applications, especially those leveraging AI and data-heavy libraries, need more room to breathe. To support these evolving stacks and reduce developer friction, we’ve increased the default maximum compressed slug size from 500MB to 1GB. Understanding app slugs and deployment App slugs are the container build artifacts produced by Heroku Buildpacks and run in dynos. […] The post Bigger Slugs…

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18 Mar

Kotryna D 2 min read

Hostinger has paid out €11.8 million to employees under its stock option program, allowing them to directly benefit from the company’s growth. “We launched our stock option pro… The post Hostinger shares €11.8 million with employees through stock options appeared first on Hostinger Blog.

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6 Mar

Emily Huang 2 min read

The web browser and certificate authority industry is shortening the maximum allowed lifetime of TLS certificates. These changes will improve security on the Web, but you may have to change certificate maintenance practices for apps you run on Heroku. The good news is that if you’re using Heroku Automated Certificate Management, no changes are required: […] The post Preparing for…

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23 Feb

19 Feb

Anush DSouza 2 min read

Heroku is introducing significant updates to Managed Inference and Agents. These changes focus on reducing developer friction, expanding model catalogue, and streamlining deployment workflows. More flexibility with the new standard plan Until now, Heroku’s model-based plans required developers to provision a specific add-on for a specific model. This created significant operational overhead. If you wanted […] The post Whats New…

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17 Feb

Anush DSouza 3 min read

Large language models are good at writing code. Data from Anthropic shows that allowing Claude to execute scripts, rather than relying on sequential tool calls, reduces token consumption by an average of 37%, with some use cases seeing reductions as high as 98%. Untrusted code needs a secure and isolated place to execute. We solved […] The post Code Execution…

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11 Feb

Alberto Sigismondi 2 min read

Today, we are thrilled to announce the General Availability (GA) of the Heroku GitHub Enterprise Server Integration. For our Enterprise customers, the bridge between code and production must be more than just convenient. It must be resilient, secure, and governed at scale. While our legacy OAuth integration served us well, the modern security landscape demands […] The post Heroku and…

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6 Feb

Nitin T Bhat 1 min read

Today, Heroku is transitioning to a sustaining engineering model focused on stability, security, reliability, and support. Heroku remains an actively supported, production-ready platform, with an emphasis on maintaining quality and operational excellence rather than introducing new features. We know changes like this can raise questions, and we want to be clear about what this means […] The post An Update…

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2 Feb

Matthew Green 12 min read

It’s not every day that we see mainstream media get excited about encryption apps! For that reason, the past several days have been fascinating, since we’ve been given not one but several unusual stories about the encryption used in WhatsApp. Or more accurately, if you read the story, a pretty wild allegation that the widely-used … Continue reading WhatsApp Encryption,…

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29 Jan

Anush DSouza 3 min read

If you’ve built a RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) system, you’ve probably hit this wall: your vector search returns 20 documents that are semantically similar to the query, but half of them don’t actually answer it. A user asks “how do I handle authentication errors?” and gets back documentation about authentication, errors, and error handling in […] The post Building AI…

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20 Jan

15 Jan

Anush DSouza 2 min read

Today, we are announcing the general availability of reranking models on Heroku Managed Inference and Agents, featuring support for Cohere Rerank 3.5 and Amazon Rerank 1.0. Semantic reranking models score documents based on their relevance to a specific query. Unlike keyword search or vector similarity, rerank models understand nuanced semantic relationships to identify the most […] The post Optimize Search…

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18 Dec 2025

Anush DSouza 3 min read

This month marks significant expansion for Heroku Managed Inference and Agents, directly accelerating our AI PaaS framework. We’re announcing a substantial addition to our model catalog, providing access to leading proprietary AI models such as Claude Opus 4.5, Nova 2, and open-weight models such as Kimi K2 thinking, MiniMax M2, and Qwen3. These resources are […] The post Heroku AI:…

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11 Dec 2025

Vivek Viswanathan 3 min read

Modern Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines demand machine-to-machine authorization, but traditional web-based flow requires manual steps and often rely on static credentials; a major security risk. Heroku AppLink now uses JWT Authorization to solve both: enabling automated setup and eliminating long-lived secrets. In today’s evolving threat landscape, security attacks increasingly exploit systems that rely on […] The post Heroku AppLink:…

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10 Dec 2025

Alberto Sigismondi 3 min read

We’re excited to announce a significant enhancement to how Heroku Enterprise customers connect their deployment pipelines to GitHub Enterprise Server (GHES) and GitHub Enterprise Cloud (GHEC). The new Heroku GitHub Enterprise Integration is now available in a closed pilot, offering a more secure, robust, and permanent connection between your code repositories and your Heroku apps. […] The post Heroku GitHub…

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9 Dec 2025

Serverless Team 1 min read

AWS re:Invent’s biggest serverless launches are already live in Serverless Framework v4, with new runtimes, streaming APIs, tenant isolation, enriched IAM and networking controls, and more - all ready to use today, alongside a livestream deep-dive and a limited-time subscription offer.

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4 Dec 2025

Anush DSouza 2 min read

Heroku is launching automatic prompt caching starting December 18, 2025. Prompt caching delivers a notable, zero-effort performance increase for Heroku Managed Inference and Agents. Enabled by default, this feature is designed to deliver significantly faster responses for common workloads. We have taken a pragmatic approach and currently only enabled this to cache system prompts and […] The post Faster Agents…

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24 Nov 2025

Alberto Sigismondi 3 min read

We are thrilled to announce that the Heroku Terraform Provider is now fully optimized for Fir. This significant milestone allows developers to manage our next-generation platform using Infrastructure as Code (IaC). Fir is built on a modern foundation of cloud-native, open-source standards (Kubernetes) while maintaining the legendary Heroku developer experience. By combining the declarative power […] The post Unleash the…

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18 Nov 2025

Serverless Team 1 min read

Serverless Framework is closing out the year with major updates—new Python support built in, improved reliability during upstream outages, key IAM changes, and upcoming features like OpenTelemetry configuration and expanded variable resolution—while also offering a limited-time 20% end-of-year discount and actively hiring for the Framework team. This post recaps what’s new, what’s coming next, and how to get involved.

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14 Nov 2025

Michelle Peot 9 min read

Beginning on October 20th, 2025 07:06 UTC, multiple Heroku services were initially impacted by a database service disruption with our cloud infrastructure provider in the Virginia region. This affected the monitoring, provisioning, networking and availability of cloud infrastructure services that power the Heroku platform. This outage was a complex, multi-phased event primarily triggered by multiple upstream outages within the cloud…

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7 Nov 2025

30 Oct 2025

Vivek Viswanathan 2 min read

Imagine this: Your sales team is about to close a major deal. They’re building a custom quote in your app, but they need to see the latest product line items from an Opportunity in Salesforce. They refresh. And wait. The data is stale. The quote gets generated, but it’s missing the latest addition to the […] The post Heroku Connect:…

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29 Oct 2025

14 Oct 2025

Betty Junod 3 min read

Today’s businesses face a tremendous amount of complexity in tools, data silos, and systems that teams need to navigate to deliver unique and engaging experiences to their customers. Meanwhile developers are only able to spend a fraction of their time coding due to the cognitive load of technology complexity, constant context switching, and figuring out how to adopt AI effectively…

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Jonathan Brown 2 min read

We are thrilled to announce the next generation of Heroku Postgres to power a data foundation for the next wave of intelligent and mission-critical applications. This roadmap has been driven by listening closely to our customers, culminating in the introduction of a new Heroku Postgres Advanced tier. This revolutionary data foundation is designed to eliminate previous scaling limits, unlock unprecedented…

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13 Oct 2025

Gediminas G 2 min read

Sell online. Turn your hobby into income. Share your creativity. Build a professional business website. Whatever your goal, this Black Friday is your chance to make it real. Wi… The post Hostinger Black Friday deals 2025 appeared first on Hostinger Blog.

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8 Oct 2025

Anush DSouza 4 min read

Introducing the pilot of Heroku Vibes, your collaborative agent for turning ideas into running apps. For those who have been with us on this journey for a while, the name “Heroku Garden” might stir up a bit of nostalgia. It was the web experience that enabled developers to become immediately productive in creating and deploying […] The post Welcome to…

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17 Sept 2025

Anush DSouza 2 min read

Ever found yourself in the endless loop of tweaking a prompt, running your code, and waiting to see if you finally got the output you wanted? That slow, frustrating feedback cycle is a common headache for AI developers. What if you could speed that up and get back to what you do best? Let’s focus on building amazing applications. We're…

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5 Sept 2025

Michelle Peot 4 min read

Beginning at 06:00 UTC on Tuesday, Jun 10, 2025, Heroku customers began experiencing a platform service disruption due to an unintended system update applied to our production infrastructure by our vendor. To compound the issue, the Heroku Status site was affected by the outage. Shortcomings in site design and API latency resulted in timeouts, and the Status site appeared as…

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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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8 Aug 2025

Anush DSouza 2 min read

Building production-grade AI applications can be complex, but with Heroku and Pydantic AI, developers gain a powerful and reliable solution for integrating advanced AI capabilities. Heroku makes it easy to integrate AI into your applications with Heroku Managed Inference and Agents. With a single click, you can attach powerful Large Language Models like Anthropic’s Claude […] The post Building Agents…

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2 Jul 2025

Jonathan Brown 5 min read

We’re thrilled to announce the general availability of Valkey v8.1 in Redis OSS compatible Heroku Key-Value Store. This isn’t just an incremental update; it’s a significant leap forward, bringing enhanced performance and greater efficiency. To add to this excitement, we’re bringing powerful new module capabilities to v8.1, with Valkey Bloom and ValkeyJSON. For years, Heroku […] The post Heroku Key-Value…

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26 Jun 2025

24 Jun 2025

Anush DSouza 3 min read

Today, we’re thrilled to announce a new way in which agents can access the Heroku platform using the Heroku Remote MCP Server, now available at https://mcp.heroku.com/mcp. This new remote server is an expansion of our earlier stdio-based MCP server and comes with secure OAuth authentication. It’s designed to provide a secure, scalable, and incredibly simple […] The post Heroku AI:…

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18 Jun 2025

15 Jun 2025

Vish Abrams 5 min read

Beginning at 6:00 UTC, on Tuesday, Jun 10, 2025 Heroku customers began experiencing service disruption, creating up to 24 hours of downtime for many customers. This issue was caused by an unintended system update across our production infrastructure; it was not the result of a security incident, and no customer data was lost. Now that […] The post Summary of…

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29 May 2025

Jonathan Brown 4 min read

We’re excited to announce the general availability of Heroku Postgres version 17, packed with new features and enhancements to your database performance. And that’s not all – we’re also introducing a game-changing feature that streamlines your upgrade experience. This new method of version upgrade is now the default, so you can try it to upgrade […] The post Heroku Postgres…

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Anush DSouza 2 min read

Anthropic’s Claude 4 Sonnet, part of the next generation of Claude models, is now available on Heroku Managed Inference and Agents. This gives developers immediate access to a model designed for coding, advanced reasoning, and the support of capable AI agents. Heroku Managed Inference and Agents expands your AI choices, offering the freedom to build […] The post Heroku AI:…

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22 May 2025

Kotryna D 3 min read

Together with tech accelerator Tesonet, we launched a nationwide initiative offering Lithuanian schools free access to two advanced AI tools, nexos.ai and Hostinger Horizons. The … The post Bringing world-class AI tools to Lithuanian schools appeared first on Hostinger Blog.

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15 May 2025

Anush DSouza 3 min read

Many of the most exciting experiences we’re beginning to rely on every day are powered by AI; whether it’s conversational assistants, personalized recommendations or code generation, these experiences are powered by inference systems and intelligent agents. Behind the scenes, developers offload complex decisions, automate tasks, and compose intelligent applications using large language models and tool […] The post Heroku AI:…

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Gautam Rangarajan 5 min read

Agents hold immense power, but their true potential shines when they connect to the real world, fetching data, triggering actions, or leveraging external tools. The Model Context Protocol (MCP) offers a standardized way for AI agents to do this. MCP is an open protocol that standardizes how applications provide context to LLMs. Think of MCP […] The post Heroku AI:…

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1 May 2025

Anush DSouza 2 min read

We’re excited to announce the release of Heroku-Streamlit, a template that makes deploying interactive data visualization applications on Heroku simpler than ever before. Streamlit is an open-source app framework built for machine learning and data science projects. This Streamlit App brings together Heroku’s scalable cloud platform and Streamlit’s intuitive Python-based data application framework. Whether you’re […] The post Introducing Heroku-Streamlit:…

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17 Apr 2025

Erlang Solutions Team 2 min read

Catch up on the latest from Erlang Solutions. This blog round-up covers key tech trends, including big data, digital wallets, IoT security, and more. The post Erlang Solutions’ Blog round-up appeared first on Erlang Solutions.

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Serverless Team 1 min read

The Serverless MCP is a powerful debugging tool that brings AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, and API Gateway state and logs directly into your IDE. Eliminate AWS console visits while troubleshooting serverless applications with AI-assisted diagnostics and resource monitoring.

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10 Apr 2025

Anush DSouza 3 min read

We’re excited to announce the launch of the Heroku MCP Server, designed to bridge the gap between agent-driven development and Heroku’s AI PaaS. Having defined the platform experience for apps in the cloud, Heroku extends our developer and operator experience to AI capabilities. With the Heroku MCP Server, you can now expose Heroku’s robust platform […] The post Introducing the…

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8 Apr 2025

Richard Schneeman 5 min read

Do you run Rails or pure Ruby applications on Heroku? If so, it’s important to be aware of upcoming end-of-life (EOL) dates for both your stack and your Ruby version. The Heroku-20 stack, built on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, will reach EOL for standard support in April 2025. Ruby 2.7 has already passed its EOL, meaning […] The post Migrating Your…

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2 Apr 2025

Betty Junod 3 min read

In a short amount of time, AI has transformed life, work, and how we think about the future. These rapid advancements have left many of us wondering how to integrate AI into our existing workflows and what it means for the future of app development. The apps we’re building today are more than lines of […] The post Heroku: Powering…

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Ethan Limchayseng 8 min read

For years, Heroku has been empowering developers to deploy and scale their applications with ease. Now, we’re thrilled to introduce the general availability of the next generation of the Heroku platform, codenamed Fir, launching later this month April 2025. Built on open source standards and cloud-native technologies, Fir accelerates your development like never before. A […] The post Heroku Fir:…

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Rune Soerensen 3 min read

It’s never been a more exciting time to be a .NET developer. With .NET (formerly known as .NET Core) approaching its 10-year anniversary this November, the platform has evolved into a powerful, cross-platform ecosystem, embracing modern development practices and powering a vast array of applications. Today, we’re thrilled to announce that .NET support on Heroku, […] The post .NET on…

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Anush DSouza 2 min read

We’re excited to introduce Heroku-Jupyter, an open-source, production-ready solution for running Jupyter Notebooks on Heroku with persistent storage, seamless deployment, and built-in security. Whether you’re a data scientist, educator, or developer, you can now spin up a cloud-based Jupyter environment in minutes. Why Jupyter on Heroku? Jupyter Notebooks provide an interactive computing environment ideal for […] The post Jupyter Notebooks…

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4 Mar 2025

Zilin Zhou 2 min read

Developers love Heroku for its elegance and simplicity to easily build and deploy any type of app or service in the languages they love. This flexibility enables developers to build robust custom applications or specialized capabilities like agent actions, complex pricing calculations, or real-time transformations and processing. These are often capabilities where Salesforce Admins and […] The post Heroku AppLink…

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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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Anush DSouza 2 min read

The Heroku Extension for Visual Studio Code (VS Code) is now generally available for all customers—VS Code is an all-in-one tool that brings Heroku’s cloud management directly to your favorite IDE. In today’s fast-paced, AI-assisted development environment, switching between code editors and deployment tools can slow innovation and product delivery. ‌This extension lets you focus […] The post Heroku Extension…

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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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4 Feb 2025

Serverless Team 1 min read

A rich development and deployment experience for deploying containers to AWS Lambda and AWS Fargate, without rearchitecting. Serverless Container Framework gives you total flexibility.

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3 Dec 2024

Gail Frederick 3 min read

Over the past year, Heroku has been on a journey of reflection as we rebase the platform to address the changing needs of app teams toward the future without disrupting your business. In the Heroku way, we want to be thoughtful about your experience as we evolve. When we started Heroku, it was the early […] The post The Next…

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Rune Soerensen 2 min read

We’re excited to announce that official support for .NET on Heroku is entering public beta starting today. Developers can now build and deploy applications in C#, F#, and Visual Basic, using frameworks like ASP.NET Core and Blazor, all with the simplicity and flexibility of the Heroku platform. .NET has long been one of the most […] The post .NET Support…

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2 Dec 2024

Terence Lee 5 min read

Cloud platforms have come a long way since Heroku first set out to empower developers. Today’s cloud native development demands even greater flexibility, openness, and scalability. A fun fact about Heroku is that we use trees to denote the generation of the platform technology stack (aka version). In the tradition of Aspen, Bamboo, and Cedar, […] The post Planting New…

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Rand Arete 2 min read

Over the last couple of years, we’ve repeatedly heard the question “who will build the Heroku of AI?”. The answer to that question is that Heroku will, of course. We are excited to bring AI to the Heroku platform with the pilot of Managed Inference and Agents, delivered with the graceful developer and operational experience […] The post Heroku AI…

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21 Nov 2024

Ethan Limchayseng 3 min read

Back in September 2023, we announced our Public Beta for our new Common Runtime router: Router 2.0. Now generally available, Router 2.0 will replace the legacy Common Runtime router in the coming months, and bring new networking capabilities and performance to our customers. The beta launch of Router 2.0 also enabled us to deliver HTTP/2 […] The post Router 2.0…

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12 Nov 2024

Betty Junod 2 min read

Today, we are excited to announce Twelve-Factor is now an open source project. This is a special moment in the journey of Twelve-Factor over the years. Published over a decade ago by Heroku co-founder Adam Wiggins to codify the best practices for writing SaaS apps, the ideas espoused on the Twelve-Factor App website inspired many […] The post Heroku Open…

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27 Sept 2024

Ethan Limchayseng 3 min read

We are thrilled to announce that Heroku Automated Certificate Management (ACM) now supports wildcard domains for the Common Runtime! Heroku ACM’s support for wildcard domains streamlines your cloud management by allowing Heroku’s Certificate management to cover all your desired subdomains with only one command, reducing networking setup overhead and providing more flexibility while enhancing the […] The post Simplify Your…

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11 Sept 2024

Serverless Team 1 min read

Full-stack, serverless, boilerplate for AI applications on AWS, featuring Bedrock LLMs like Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Llama3.1, a React front-end, AWS Lambda back-end, built-in CI/CD and more.

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6 Sept 2024

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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26 Aug 2024

Serverless Team 1 min read

Serverless Framework 4.2.3 now supports AWS SAM and CloudFormation templates, simplifying AWS Lambda development. Deploy SAM/CF projects seamlessly, use Serverless Variables, and streamline your workflow. Perfect for organizations seeking to consolidate serverless tools and standardize development processes.

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1 Aug 2024

27 Jun 2024

Bob Wise 4 min read

Heroku is joining the CNCF at the platinum level, upgrading the long-held CNCF Salesforce membership. This marks my third time serving on the CNCF board for different companies, and I’m excited to participate again. Joining the CNCF at the Platinum level signifies a major commitment, reflecting Heroku’s dedication to the evolving landscape. My three board […] The post Heroku Joins…

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13 Jun 2024

Serverless Team 1 min read

Discover the power of Serverless Framework V.4! Native TypeScript support, revamped Dev Mode, and seamless integration with HashiCorp Terraform and Vault. Enjoy faster development, enhanced security, and powerful new features like advanced AWS Lambda logging. Get started now via GitHub or npm.

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21 May 2024

Jonathan Brown 5 min read

We’re thrilled to launch our new Heroku Postgres Essential database plans. These plans have pgvector support, no row count limits, and come with a 32 GB option. We deliver exceptional transactional query performance with Amazon Aurora as the backing infrastructure. One of our beta customers said: “The difference was noticeable right from the start. Heroku […] The post Introducing New…

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17 May 2024

Chris Marino 2 min read

Today, we’re announcing the integration of the Heroku CLI with Amazon Q Developer. This integration, a result of our expanded Salesforce/AWS partnership, enables Amazon Q Developer command line suggestions of Heroku commands. This integration empowers Heroku users to auto-complete commands, thereby saving time and eliminating error-prone manual configurations of apps. Developers configure and manage their […] The post Heroku Integration…

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10 May 2024

Vivek Viswanathan 3 min read

Heroku Postgres is one of the world’s largest managed data stores. Our customers rely on Heroku Postgres to store valuable data, which powers a range of experiences and services they build on Heroku. Salesforce Data Cloud integrates all your company’s data into the Einstein 1 Platform, creating a comprehensive customer view for personalized engagements, analytics, […] The post Introducing the…

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8 May 2024

Ethan Limchayseng 3 min read

Introduction: We’re excited to announce public beta support for HTTP/2 on both Heroku Common Runtime and Private Spaces. HTTP/2 support is one of the most requested and desired improvements for the Heroku platform. HTTP/2 is significantly faster than HTTP 1.1 by introducing features like multiplexing and header compression to reduce latency and therefore improve the […] The post Improved Heroku…

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3 Apr 2024

Vivek Viswanathan 1 min read

Add-on Controls for Heroku Teams At Heroku, trust and security are top priorities and we’ve been steadily adding more security controls to the platform. Recently, we launched SSO for Heroku Teams, and today, we’re excited to announce more enhancements for teams: add-on controls. Previously, this feature was only available to Heroku Enterprise customers. The Elements […] The post Add-on Controls…

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28 Mar 2024

Ethan Limchayseng 4 min read

Introduction Heroku is excited to introduce nine new dyno types to our fleets and product offerings. In 2014, we introduced Performance-tier dynos, giving our customers fully dedicated resources to run their most compute-intensive workloads. Now in 2024, today’s standards are rapidly increasing as complex applications and growing data volumes consume more memory and carry heavier […] The post Expanded Memory…

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21 Mar 2024

Vivek Viswanathan 1 min read

Today, we’re pleased to introduce a security feature addition for Heroku pay-as-you-go customers: Single Sign-On (SSO). SSO makes it easy to centralize and manage access to all the various tools and services used by your employees. Previously, SSO was only available for Heroku Enterprise. SSO improves the employee experience in several ways. You can use […] The post SSO for…

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19 Mar 2024

Terence Lee 3 min read

At Heroku, we believe the best choices are the ones you don’t have to make. That’s why we’re thrilled to announce the preview release of Heroku Cloud Native Buildpacks. Our Cloud Native Buildpack (CNB) offering brings the beloved Heroku language and framework experience to your local machine and beyond. Whether you’re coding in Ruby, Node.js, […] The post Heroku Cloud…

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2 Mar 2024

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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9 Feb 2024

Vivek Viswanathan 1 min read

TLS and HTTPS encryption have become foundational primitives and a requirement for running any app or service on the internet. Many Heroku customers told us through our public roadmap to make Heroku Automated Certificate Management available to all dyno types, including our Eco subscription. We’re thrilled to announce that Automatic Certificate Management(ACM) and manual certificate […] The post Automatic Certificate…

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23 Jan 2024

Vivek Viswanathan 2 min read

Heroku is improving the cost-effectiveness of Heroku Enterprise with the addition of Basic dynos. Now, Enterprise customers can unlock the power of Basic dynos on the Common Runtime. Basic dynos enable seamless app development and testing on the Heroku platform in the most efficient and cost-effective way. As part of our efforts to simplify our […] The post Innovating on…

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28 Nov 2023

Michael Friis 1 min read

Update: We’ve updated our purchasing options, and Heroku is no longer available via AWS Marketplace Private Offers. You can continue to provision and manage your services directly through your Heroku account or via Heroku.com. Today at AWS re:Invent, we’re excited to announce that Heroku is available for purchase in AWS Marketplace through the Private Offers […] The post Heroku is…

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2 Nov 2023

26 Oct 2023

Jonathan Brown 4 min read

We’re pleased to introduce the pgvector extension on Heroku Postgres. In an era where large language models (LLMs) and AI applications are paramount, pgvector provides the essential capability for performing high-dimensional vector similarity searches. This allows Heroku Postgres to quickly find similar data points in complex data, which is great for applications like recommendation systems […] The post Enhancing Heroku…

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12 Oct 2023

Andrew McGrath 2 min read

At Heroku, we’re on a mission to continuously improve our products and services to provide the best possible customer experience. Feedback is at the heart of our innovation, and we’re excited to highlight the Heroku User Research Program. Through this initiative, our customers provide feedback, test new features, and share their insights directly with our […] The post Heroku User…

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25 Sept 2023

31 Aug 2023

Ethan Limchayseng 3 min read

In May 2023, we announced our limited release of two new Heroku Private Spaces regions: India (Mumbai) and Canada (Montreal). This month, we’re announcing the full general availability of those two regions, along with new Heroku Private Spaces regions for the United Kingdom (London) and Singapore. This expansion enables customers to maintain greater control over […] The post Heroku Private…

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Andrew Fawcett 1 min read

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…

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24 Aug 2023

JorDanee Key 2 min read

We’ve just introduced three new changes to our pricing at Heroku, all designed to provide extra value to our customers and make cost estimation easier. These changes will kick in from September 1, 2023 onward: Your account will no longer be charged the $10 monthly fee for Heroku CI. Your account will no longer be […] The post Heroku CI…

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3 Aug 2023

20 Jul 2023

Andre Soto 2 min read

Summary Subdomain reuse, also known as subdomain takeover, is a security vulnerability that occurs when an attacker claims and takes control of a target domain. Typically, this happens when an application is deprecated and an attacker directs residual traffic to a host that they control. As of 14 June 2023, we changed the format of […] The post Security Improvement:…

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15 Jul 2023

Jon Daniel 4 min read

PostgreSQL extensions are powerful tools that allow developers to extend the functionality of PostgreSQL beyond its basic types and functions. These extensions can connect your database to an external PostgreSQL instance (postgres_fdw), add native GIS functionality (postgis), standardize address information (address_standardizer), and more. Extensions are arguably one of PostgreSQL’s greatest features and are partially responsible […] The post Improving the…

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30 Jun 2023

Jonathan Brown 3 min read

Sometimes your data grows and requires a bigger disk without a need for more compute or memory. Previously, our offerings were a bit too inflexible. We also didn’t want to limit our largest database at 4TB. We released new Heroku Postgres plans that give you more flexibility when scaling up your database storage needs on […] The post Introducing New…

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15 Jun 2023

Ethan Limchayseng 3 min read

Heroku is excited to announce the addition of a third availability zone (AZ) for our Private Spaces product offering. Three availability zones make Private Space apps more resilient to outages. We’ve prioritized this improvement as part of our focus on mission-critical features to make the Heroku Platform even more reliable. The changeover to three availability […] The post Heroku Adds…

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3 May 2023

Ethan Limchayseng 3 min read

This month, we’re expanding the Heroku platform with a limited release of our Private Spaces product in two new regions, India (Mumbai) and Canada (Montreal), enabling customers to maintain even greater control over where data is stored and processed. These two new regions will fully support Heroku Private Spaces, Heroku Shield Private Spaces, Heroku Postgres, […] The post Heroku Private…

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20 Mar 2023

Jonathan Brown 3 min read

We are excited to announce that Postgres version 15 is now generally available! The developers of Postgres release a new version around October every year, and we aim to release it on Heroku Postgres each Q1. Additionally, we track Postgres end-of-life dates to ensure that our service and our customers are always on the latest […] The post Announcing PostgreSQL…

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22 Feb 2023

Bob Wise 3 min read

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…

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17 Feb 2023

Andre Soto 6 min read

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…

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15 Nov 2022

10 Nov 2022

Austen Collins 1 min read

Serverless Console V2 brings real-time spans, requests and responses in Dev Mode, plus enhanced AWS Lambda observability powered by the Telemetry API.

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8 Nov 2022

Chris Peterson 1 min read

In September, we announced our new low-cost Eco dynos plan and Mini plans for Heroku Postgres and Heroku Data for Redis®. The time has come! These plans are available today for new and existing applications. For customers paying by credit or debit card, the Eco dynos and Mini data plans are free until November 30th, […] The post Eco and…

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4 Nov 2022

Brittany Jones 1 min read

Today, we’re announcing heroku data:labs, an extension of the Heroku Data client plugin. This plugin allows you to make configuration changes to your Heroku Postgres addons. Previously, you could only enable these features by opening a ticket with Heroku Support. With heroku data:labs, you’ll save time by turning these features on and off yourself. heroku […] The post Announcing Heroku…

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5 Oct 2022

Bob Wise 1 min read

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…

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29 Sept 2022

Deb Robbins 3 min read

[Update: October 3, 2022 – The Heroku for GitHub Students program is now live. Instructions for signing up for the program have been added to this post.] One of the things I value about being a Salesforce employee is our commitment to community. We support education through giving, mentoring, and many other programs. That commitment […] The post Heroku Partners…

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27 Sept 2022

Andrew Fawcett 3 min read

Update November 7th, 2022: These plans are now generally available. Take a look at our launch announcement post for more information on migration. When we announced Heroku’s Next Chapter last month, we received a lot of feedback from our customers. One of the things that stood out was interest in a middle ground between our […] The post Heroku Pricing…

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25 Aug 2022

Bob Wise 4 min read

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…

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17 Aug 2022

Nicolás Risaro 3 min read

Webhooks are a more secure, reliable, and powerful alternative to Deploy Hooks, and five years ago, we made app webhooks Generally Available. Today, we are deprecating Deploy Hooks and encouraging customers to migrate to app webhooks. Starting October 17, 2022, we will stop accepting new deploy hooks. Existing hooks will continue working until the product […] The post Sunsetting Deploy…

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22 Jun 2022

Richard Grant 1 min read

The on-demand recap of our May 17th community call is now available to stream. We covered how to structure a Serverless Application and we were joined by Purple Technology who shared their serverless story.

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14 Jun 2022

Bob Wise 5 min read

We have concluded our investigation and want to provide our customers with an overview of the threat actor’s actions, direct mitigations we have taken because of this incident, and additional changes we will make in the face of a continually evolving threat landscape. Our incident summary outlines what we have learned during the course of […] The post April 2022…

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6 Jun 2022

kevin 2 min read

The San Francisco Chronicle charges for subscriptions. How much does a subscription cost? This is an impossible question to answer, even for current subscribers. The Chronicle advertises several different prices for new subscribers. The only public information the Chronicle shares about its permanent subscription rates raises more questions than answers. No one at the Chronicle […]

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25 May 2022

19 May 2022

Shyam Subramanyan 2 min read

[Update: May 25, 2022 – GitHub integration is now re-enabled. You can connect to GitHub immediately or wait for the enhanced integration as described below. To re-establish your GitHub connection now, please follow these instructions.] We know you are waiting for us to re-enable our integration with GitHub, and we’ve committed to you that we […] The post Plans to…

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12 May 2022

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7 May 2022

Bob Wise 2 min read

I started as Heroku GM a few weeks ago with intense enthusiasm to be a part of such a storied team. As you might expect, the last few weeks have not been what I would have imagined. But, contrary to what you might expect, I’m energized. I’ve been deeply impressed by the skills and dedication […] The post We’ve Heard…

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23 Mar 2022

Greg Nokes 1 min read

We launched Salesforce Functions last fall and the response so far has been terrific. While the most obvious use cases for functions are stateless processing of data, there are many examples of business processes that can take advantage of the simplified operating model of functions, but require some persistent state to span function invocations. Today, […] The post Heroku Data…

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14 Mar 2022

Andre Soto 1 min read

At Salesforce, we strive to balance the security of your data and apps with an efficient and enjoyable user experience. Last year, we shortened login sessions for the Heroku Dashboard to 12 hours to improve security. Starting today, users can stay logged in for up to 24 hours. Even better, if you have multi-factor authentication […] The post Improving User…

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8 Mar 2022

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27 Jan 2022

Matthieu Napoli 1 min read

Serverless Framework V3 is here with a redesigned CLI experience, stage parameters, cleaner dependencies, and an easier upgrade path from V2.

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14 Dec 2021

Steven Yi 1 min read

Watch the Replay of our December 2021 Community Call! See demos of the latest features in Serverless Framework, Serverless Cloud, and a sneak peek at the upcoming Serverless Console

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7 Dec 2021

2 Dec 2021

Steven Yi 1 min read

A lot of news came out of AWS re:Invent 2021 - get updates from our team on how Serverless Framework, Dashboard, and Cloud are taking advantage of the latest AWS enhancements (like improved SQS batch error handling with AWS Lambda).

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16 Nov 2021

Matthieu Napoli 1 min read

Today, we are very excited to announce the availability of Serverless Framework v3 beta! The 3.0 release, planned for Q1 2022, includes a cleaner and redesigned CLI experience that prioritizes actionable information.

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4 Nov 2021

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5 Oct 2021

Ethan Limchayseng 3 min read

Since April 2021, the Heroku Runtime team has been working to deploy upgrades to the infrastructure powering Common Runtime apps, and we’re excited to formally announce the performance improvements that customers are already seeing. When this Changelog post was published in May introducing the changes, almost all Common Runtime apps had been migrated from what […] The post Faster Dynos…

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28 Sept 2021

12 Apr 2021

Tushar Pradhan 2 min read

Customer Trust is our highest priority at Salesforce and Heroku. It’s more important than ever to implement stronger security measures in light of increasing security threats that could affect services and apps that are critical to businesses and communities. We’re pleased to announce that all Heroku customers can now take advantage of the security offered […] The post Enhancing Security:…

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28 Jan 2021

Greg Nokes 2 min read

Today, we’re thrilled to announce backups of Heroku Postgres are now 40x faster by leveraging Snapshots in place of base backups. We’ve been hard at work focused on improving performance, speed, and capacity for the Heroku Data services you rely on. In the past forks and follows of a Premium-8 test database with 992 GB […] The post Announcing Heroku…

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21 Jan 2021

Greg Nokes 2 min read

As applications become more complex, so do the data requirements to support them. At Heroku we have been working hard on enabling these workloads, while maintaining the same level of abstraction, developer experience, and compliance you’ve come to expect. Today, we’re excited to announce new, larger Heroku Postgres Plans. These new plans will allow for […] The post Announcing Larger…

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Greg Nokes 1 min read

We are excited to announce that we are moving Connection Pooling for Heroku Postgres into GA. Connection Pooling unlocks the ability to use up to 10,000 client connections to a Heroku Postgres Database, without adversely impacting performance on the database. This will unlock more complex and higher scale applications with simpler architectures on the Heroku […] The post Connection Pooling…

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8 Oct 2020

Scott Truitt 1 min read

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…

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Guillaume Winter 6 min read

This post is an update on a previous post about how Heroku handles incident response. As a service provider, when things go wrong, you try to get them fixed as quickly as possible. In addition to technical troubleshooting, there’s a lot of coordination and communication that needs to happen in resolving issues with systems like […] The post Incident Response…

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16 Jul 2020

Michael Friis 2 min read

Today we’re sharing three performance enhancements that we have recently rolled out to apps running in Private Spaces: Dynos upgraded to the latest generation infrastructure for 10-15% perf improvement More consistent performance for Small Private and Shield Space dynos Optimized clock source selection Heroku is a fully managed platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and we work tirelessly to […] The post Container and…

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10 Jul 2020

Scott Truitt 2 min read

Today we are announcing a beta release of our new streaming data connector between Heroku Postgres and Apache Kafka on Heroku. Heroku runs millions of Postgres services and tens of thousands of Apache Kafka services, and we increasingly see developers choosing to start with Apache Kafka as the foundation of their data architecture. But for […] The post Streaming Data…

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16 Jun 2020

Sepideh Setayeshfar 3 min read

Faster application delivery with remote teams is the key to connect with your customers, now more than ever. A few years ago, we released Review Apps with the goal of improving the application development process and team collaboration. Today, we are excited to announce the release of an improved version of Review Apps to general […] The post New Review…

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11 Jun 2020

Scott Truitt 4 min read

We are thrilled to announce that Heroku Shield for Redis is now generally available and certified for handling PHI, PII, and HIPAA-compliant data. Heroku Shield for Redis is the final missing data service for Heroku Shield, which is an integrated set of Heroku services with additional security features needed for building high compliance applications. All […] The post Heroku Shield…

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6 May 2020

Scott Truitt 3 min read

Security is always top of mind for Heroku customers; COVID-19 has further increased the urgency for enterprises and developers to deliver more mission-critical applications with sensitive and regulated data. Given the needs of our customers, including those in regulated industries like Health & Life Sciences and Financial Services, we are thrilled to announce that Heroku […] The post Bring Your…

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21 Apr 2020

2 Apr 2020

Austen Collins 1 min read

We're bringing Serverless Components out of beta and introducing several new features to deliver a dramatically improved serverless development experience.

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25 Feb 2020

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Wade Wegner 2 min read

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…

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4 Feb 2020

Scott Truitt 2 min read

After a successful evaluation period, PostgreSQL 12 is now the default version for new Heroku Postgres databases and an available upgrade for existing databases. I want to emphasize a few key changes and improvements in Postgres 12: Native Table Partitioning Concurrent Operations Native Partitioning was introduced in PostgreSQL 10 and performance improvements for improved parallel […] The post PostgreSQL 12…

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3 Feb 2020

Maciej Skierkowski 1 min read

Announcing the general availability of Serverless CI/CD in Serverless Framework Pro, a continuous integration and deployment service you can use for free.

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25 Dec 2019

Richard Schneeman 1 min read

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:…

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19 Dec 2019

Kadir Topal 2 min read

The first annual MDN Developer Needs Assessment aims to represent the voices of developers and designers working on the web. We've analyzed the data provided by more than 28,000 completed surveys, and we've identified 28 discrete needs, sorted into 14 different themes. Four of the top ten needs relate to browser compatibility, our #1 theme. Documentation, Testing, Debugging, and Frameworks…

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Scott Truitt 4 min read

Today, we’re thrilled to announce four new trusted data integrations that allow data to flow seamlessly and securely between Heroku and external resources in public clouds and private data centers: Heroku Postgres via mutual TLS Heroku Postgres via PrivateLink Apache Kafka on Heroku via PrivateLink Heroku Redis via PrivateLink These integrations expand Heroku’s security and […] The post Announcing Heroku…

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6 Nov 2019

1 Oct 2019

Scott Truitt 3 min read

We are thrilled to announce that Apache Kafka on Heroku Shield is now generally available and certified for handling PHI, PII, and HIPAA-compliant data. Our newest managed data service unifies Heroku Shield, a set of Heroku platform services that offer additional security features needed for building high compliance applications, with Apache Kafka on Heroku, our […] The post Apache Kafka…

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17 Sept 2019

Daniel Conde 1 min read

Deploy Next.js on AWS Lambda@Edge for global, fast server-side rendered react applications, and easily interact with other AWS resources.

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12 Sept 2019

Sepideh Setayeshfar 4 min read

Today we are thrilled to announce the general availability (GA) release of Heroku Enterprise Accounts. All Enterprise Teams associated with a company are nested under an Enterprise Account which delivers a higher level of visibility and accountability. With an Enterprise Account, executives and admins can ensure trust and improved agility with simple fast management of […] The post Announcing General…

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1 Aug 2019

Austen Collins 1 min read

Forget infrastructure. We’re giving you a new option to deploy serverless use-cases easily — without managing complex infrastructure configuration files.

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29 Jul 2019

23 Jul 2019

Scott Truitt 4 min read

There are many reasons to choose Heroku Data services, but keeping the services you use secure and up-to-date rank near the top. This foundation of trust is the most important commitment we make to our customers, and frequent and timely maintenances are one way we deliver on this promise. We do everything we can to […] The post Why Frequent…

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Gareth McCumskey 1 min read

With the importance of plugins to the Serverless ecosystem, we had to find a way to thank our community and offer our support

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Scott Truitt 3 min read

Today, we’re thrilled to announce Heroku Postgres via PrivateLink, a new integration that enables customers to seamlessly and securely connect Heroku Postgres databases in Private Spaces to resources in one or more Amazon VPCs. Heroku Postgres via PrivateLink connections are secure and stable by default because traffic to and from Heroku Postgres stays on the […] The post Heroku Postgres…

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Becky Jaimes 3 min read

After a successful two-month Beta period, PostgreSQL 11 is now the default version for all new provisioned Heroku Postgres databases. All Postgres extensions, tooling, and integration with the Heroku developer experience are ready to use, giving you the power of PostgreSQL 11 with the ease and usability of Heroku for building data-centric applications. We’d like […] The post PostgreSQL 11…

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Vikram Rana 4 min read

2018 was an amazing year for Heroku and our customers. We want to extend a big thank you for your feedback, beta participation, and spirit of innovation, which inspires us every day to continuously improve and advance the platform. In the past year, we released a range of new features to make the developer experience […] The post Heroku 2018:…

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13 Nov 2018

Jon Byrum 2 min read

Last October, we announced the ability for you to deploy pre-built Docker images to Heroku via Container Registry. Today, building Docker images with heroku.yml is generally available; you can now: Use git push heroku master to build your Docker images on Heroku Take advantage of review apps in Docker-based projects For most teams, using containers […] The post Building Docker…

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3 Oct 2018

Terence Lee 4 min read

Your Heroku application’s journey to production begins with a buildpack that detects what kind of app you have, what tools you need to run, and how to tune your app for peak performance. In this way, buildpacks reduce your operational burden and let you to spend more time creating value for your customers. That’s why […] The post Buildpacks Go…

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13 Sept 2018

Michael Friis 3 min read

Today we’re excited to announce Site-to-Site Virtual Private Network (VPN) support for Heroku Private Spaces. Heroku customers can now establish secure, site-to-site IPsec connections between Private Spaces on Heroku and their offices, datacenters and deployments on non-AWS clouds. VPN is a powerful, proven and widely-adopted technology for securely combining multiple networks (or adding individual hosts […] The post VPN Support…

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Michael Friis 3 min read

Today we’re announcing a powerful new network control for apps running in Heroku Private Spaces: Internal Routing. Apps with Internal Routing work exactly the same as other Heroku apps, except the web process type is published to an endpoint that’s routable only within the Private Space and on VPC and VPN peered networks (see the […] The post Internal Routing…

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12 Sept 2018

DeVaris Brown 3 min read

Since we introduced Heroku CI over a year ago, we’ve been hard at work developing features aimed at making your testing speed even faster and workflow more optimized. Today we are pleased to announce Heroku CI Parallel Test Runs and the Heroku CI API are now generally available (GA) for all Heroku customers. Parallel Test […] The post Heroku CI…

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Jamie Arlen 2 min read

Today we are proud to announce that Heroku has achieved several important compliance milestones that provide third party validation of our security best practices: ISO 27001 Certification: Widely recognized and internationally accepted information security standard that specifies security management best practices and comprehensive security controls following ISO 27002 best practices guidance. ISO 27017 Certification: A […] The post Announcing ISO…

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21 Jun 2018

Robert Zare 2 min read

Today we are pleased to announce general availability of Heroku Shield Connect, the latest addition to our lineup of Heroku Shield services. Heroku Shield, announced last year, enabled new capabilities for Dynos, Postgres databases and Private Spaces that make Heroku suitable for high compliance environments such as those that fall under the Health Insurance Portability […] The post Announcing General…

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19 Jun 2018

Michael Friis 4 min read

Today we’re announcing two exciting TLS improvements for apps running in Private Spaces—Heroku’s runtime optimized for security-sensitive workloads that require network and tenant isolation: Automated Certificate Management to automatically create, configure, and renew free TLS certificates for custom domains on Private Space apps Expanded and updated cipher suite selections for TLS/SSL termination for Private Space […] The post Auto Cert…

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13 Jun 2018

Scott Truitt 1 min read

On May 10, 2018, we received notice about two critical vulnerabilities in Redis, both embargoed until this morning. Upon this notice, our Data Infrastructure team proceeded to patch all internal and customer databases in response to these vulnerabilities. As of today, all customer databases have been patched successfully. At Heroku, customer trust is our most […] The post An Update…

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24 May 2018

Nahid Samsami 2 min read

Today we're excited to announce that Heroku CLI Autocomplete for Bash and Zsh is generally available. Heroku CLI Autocomplete makes your workflow faster and more seamless by helping you complete command and flag names when you press the tab key. Autocomplete completes all Heroku CLI commands and will automatically support new commands as they are […] The post Announcing Heroku…

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17 May 2018

3 May 2018

Nahid Samsami 2 min read

Heroku Webhooks let you create powerful real-time integrations and drive custom operations workflows whenever your Heroku app changes. Today, we're excited to announce a new user experience that makes managing and creating webhooks easier than ever. Now everyone on your team can create a webhook, update it and see deliverability, using a straightforward interface in […] The post Heroku Webhooks:…

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Nahid Samsami 3 min read

Today we're excited to announce that we've open sourced oclif, a framework for building command line interfaces. We built oclif to serve as the common foundation for both the Heroku and Salesforce CLIs and to abstract away the common struggles. The framework is now available to any developer for building CLIs large or small. oclif […] The post Open Sourcing…

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18 Jan 2018

Camille Baldock 3 min read

Today, we’re excited to announce a major update to Heroku Postgres with a new lineup of production plans. These plans are the first component of Heroku Postgres PGX, the next generation of our managed Postgres solution. PGX Plans introduce larger database sizes, more generous resource allocations, and a broader set of options to suit your […] The post Heroku Postgres…

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13 Jan 2018

11 Jan 2018

Nahid Samsami 2 min read

We are excited to announce that the new Heroku Partner Portal for Add-ons is now generally available. The new portal offers an improved partner experience for building, managing, and updating Heroku add-ons. Our goal is to create a workflow that will give you more freedom and enable you to bring your add-ons to market more […] The post Announcing the…

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5 Jan 2018

Trey Ford 2 min read

UPDATE: Friday, January 5 19:07 PST As of 13:30 PST, AWS completed their patch deployment addressing tenant isolation threats. AWS reports they have restored the expected multi-tenancy protections similar to dedicated hardware, which leaves Heroku to address the kernel vulnerabilities in runtime host operating systems. Heroku Performance, Private, and Shield dynos feature varying degrees of […] The post Meltdown and…

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14 Dec 2017

Camille Baldock 2 min read

Today, we're happy to announce full support for PostgreSQL 10, opening our managed Postgres solution to the full slate of features released after a successful two-month Beta period. PostgreSQL 10 is now the default version for all new provisioned Heroku Postgres databases. All Postgres extensions, tooling, and integration with the Heroku developer experience are ready […] The post PostgreSQL 10…

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