- News
- Last Updated: July 19, 2016
- Scott Persinger
We recently launched Apache Kafka on Heroku into beta. Just like we do with Heroku Postgres, our internal engineering teams have been using our Kafka service to power a number of our internal systems.
The Heroku platform comprises a large number of independent services. Traditionally we’ve used HTTP calls to communicate between these services. While this approach is simple to implement and easy to reason about, it has a number of drawbacks. …
- Engineering
- Last Updated: May 30, 2024
- Scott Persinger
With the Salesforce hackathon fast approaching, I wanted to give a quick overview on building apps that use the force.com APIs (part of the Salesforce1 platform).
The force APIs are rich and varied, so sometimes just getting started can seem a little daunting.
- Engineering
- Last Updated: October 02, 2014
- Scott Persinger
One of the challenges when starting a mobile app project is deciding what technology stack to use. Should the client app use iOS or Android native, mobile web, or a hybrid? Do the backend in Node, Ruby, or Java? Or skip the backend and use an Mobile Backend-as-a-Service?
To help avoid needing to answer all those on your own we are open sourcing the Heroku Mobile Template. This app provides a full-stack starting point for creating new hybrid mobile apps and deploying them to Heroku.
- Engineering
- Last Updated: March 28, 2024
- Scott Persinger
Heroku Connect is a service offered by Heroku which performs 2-way data synchronization between Salesforce and a Heroku Postgres database.
When we first built Heroku Connect, we decided to use polling to determine when data had changed on either side. Polling isn’t pretty, but its simple and reliable, and those are “top line” features for Heroku Connect. But polling incurs two significant costs: high latency and wasted resources. The more you poll the more you waste API calls and database queries checking when there are no data changes. But if you lengthen your polling interval then you grow the latency for the data synchronization.
- Engineering
- Last Updated: April 24, 2024
- Scott Persinger
Force.com and Heroku are both part of the Salesforce1 platform. There are lots of great ways to leverage force.com from your Heroku app. This article will give an overview and pointers to get you started.
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