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- Last Updated: June 03, 2024
- Mark Pundsack
When talking to Heroku users, a question that frequently comes up is “when do my apps go to sleep, and why?”. Though the behavior is documented in Dev Center, we’d like to provide more immediate visibility into the state of your apps at any given moment.
When an app on Heroku has an Eco web dyno, and that dyno receives no web traffic in a 30-minute period, it sleeps. …
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- Last Updated: May 16, 2024
- Mark Pundsack
A couple months ago, we launched a completely redesigned Heroku status site. Since design is important to us and, we think, to many of you, we're taking a break from our usual blog posts to dig into the Heroku approach to visual product design.
Read on to experience the twists and turns on the way to the final design and let us know in the comments if you want to see more posts like …
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- Last Updated: May 23, 2012
- Mark Pundsack
Developers like you deploy code to hundreds of thousands of apps every month on the Heroku platform. Some of these are production apps which serve hundreds of millions or even billions of requests per month. Uptime of the platform is critical for such apps.
We want to achieve the sustained reliability that these apps require. But when there are incidents that impact uptime, we want to maximize our transparency and accountability to you and all …
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- Last Updated: November 12, 2011
- Mark Pundsack
Today we're happy to announce the availability of Heroku Scheduler. Scheduler is an add-on for running administrative or maintenance tasks, or jobs, at scheduled time intervals. It's the polyglot replacement of the Cron add-on, with more power and flexibility. And it's free; you just pay for the dyno time consumed by the one-off tasks.
A dashboard allows you to configure jobs to run every 10 minutes, every hour, or every day, and unlike …
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