Sara Dornsife

We love seeing our customers’ successful and gaining recognition for the amazing businesses they are building. So, as you could imagine, we were thrilled to learn that a Heroku customer was featured on ABCs Shark Tank last Friday, with two more being featured over the next couple weeks.

Plated – Aired 4/4 at 9pm ET on ABC

Plated, a New York City-based food/tech company, aims to make it simple and fun for people to create …

We are really honored to be a part of PyCon again this year. We have a big booth in the expo hall and a bunch of people who are really looking forward to attending and who are there to answer questions, hack on code, troubleshoot, or shoot the ….

Enter to win:

While you are in our booth, you can enter to win $500 (in cash or credits) toward the open source-related project, user group, …

AWS Summit SF is coming up on Wed March 26th at Moscone South. We are thrilled to be sponsoring the Developer Lounge. Heroku engineers and staff will be available throughout the day to answer your questions about Heroku; developing Ruby, Python, and Node apps on Heroku; Heroku Postgres; and the architecture of apps using both Heroku and AWS.

If you plan on attending, please stop by, say hello, and bring your questions. Or you can …

SxSW Interactive starts today. The crowds have arrived, the sessions have begun, and the ExactTarget Orange Oasis is open. Please stop by and say hello at the Heroku purple pavilion there, or schedule a private meeting or demo.

Check out the SXSW Fitbit Leaderboard from ExactTarget while you are here. This Heroku app logs and tracks your steps at SxSW. You can join the Leaderboard by logging into Fitbit, and sending a mail to …

Every year tens of thousands of people descend on Austin, TX for the SxSW Conference to learn about the latest in digital technologies. This year Heroku is descending as well and we want to see you there.

Orange Oasis

Fri., March 7th and Sat., March 8th Brass House – 115 San Jacinto Blvd (@ 2nd St)

Heroku will be a part of ExactTarget’s Orange Oasis at Brass House. Close to the convention center, but out …

Editor's note: This is a guest post from Rikki Endsley. Rikki Endsley is a technology journalist and the USENIX Association's community manager. In the past, she worked as the associate publisher of Linux Pro Magazine, ADMIN, and Ubuntu User, and as the managing editor of Sys Admin magazine. Find her online at rikkiendsley.com and @rikkiends on Twitter.

A code of conduct is a signal to attendees that conference organizers have carefully considered the issues …

Editor's note: This is a guest post from Ken Fromm and Paddy Foran at Iron.io. Iron.io's services are designed for building distributed cloud applications quickly and operating at scale.

Platform as a Service has transformed the use of cloud infrastructure and drastically increased cloud adoption for common types of applications, but apps are becoming more complex. There are more interfaces, greater expectations on response times, increasing connections to other systems, and lots more processing …

It’s hard to believe the scale or imagine the energy that is Dreamforce. As part of the Salesforce Platform, a platform with a growing developer community and an amazing range of technologies, Heroku will join the party November 18-21 in San Francisco. This is a big deal for us.

DevZone

A few weeks ago we announced the Salesforce $1 Million Hackathon. By the way, that’s $1 million cash, the single largest hackathon prize …

Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Rikki Endsley.

In this exclusive interview, iOS developer Mattt Thompson opens up about the moment when he realized he’d become a programmer, why he dropped his computer science classes, and what he does AFK.

Had Mattt Thompson followed in his parents’ footsteps, he’d be a musician now instead of a well-known iOS developer working as the Mobile Lead at Heroku. Matthew “Mattt” Thomas Thompson was …

As we previously announced, salesforce.com is hosting a $1 Million Hackathon for the most awesome mobile app built using Salesforce Platform, which includes Heroku. It's taking place now and culminates at Dreamforce in San Francisco.

For a limited time we are making it FREE ($99 value) to participate in the Salesforce $1 Million Hackathon. Sign up for the Hacker Pass and you will get access to the Hackathon plus all the great content and …