Terence is the architect on the Build & Languages experience on Heroku. He helped create buildpacks at Heroku and co-founded Cloud Native Buildpacks. In the Ruby community he got a Ruby Hero Award for his work on Bundler, but is mostly known for getting people together for #rubykaraoke. When he’s not going to an awesome an event, he lives in Austin, TX where it’s acceptable to eat a taco for every meal of the day.
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- Last Updated: April 02, 2025
- Ethan Limchayseng, Terence Lee
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.
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- Last Updated: April 02, 2025
- Rune Soerensen, Terence Lee
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, previously in beta, is now Generally Available (GA), marking a significant milestone for .NET developers on our platform. …
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- Last Updated: December 03, 2024
- Terence Lee
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, we are introducing Fir, the latest Heroku technology stack built on open source standards and cloud native technologies.
When we …
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- Last Updated: March 19, 2024
- Terence Lee
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, Python, PHP, Go, Java, or Scala, Heroku’s set of opinionated CNBs streamline the process of building and managing containerized …
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- Last Updated: June 03, 2024
- Terence Lee, Joe Kutner
When we open-sourced buildpacks nearly seven years ago, we knew they would simplify the application deployment process. After a developer runs git push heroku master, a buildpack ensures the application’s dependencies and compilation steps are taken care of as part of the deploy.
As previously announced, we’ve taken the same philosophies that made buildpacks so successful and applied them towards creating Cloud Native Buildpacks (CNB), a standard for turning source code into Docker images without the need for Dockerfiles. In this post, we’ll take a look at how CNBs work, how they aim to solve many of the problems that exist with Dockerfile, and how you can use them with the recent beta release of the buildpacks.io project. As part of this release, we’ve created a Heroku buildpacks builder image for Ruby, Node.js, Java, Python, PHP, and Go that works with the CNB tooling.
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- Last Updated: June 03, 2024
- Terence Lee
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 we’re excited to announce a new buildpack initiative with contributions from Heroku and Pivotal.
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) …
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- Last Updated: December 25, 2015
- Terence Lee
Happy Holidays from Heroku. Congratulations to the ruby-core team on a successful 2.3.0 release, which is now available on Heroku — you can learn more about Ruby on Heroku at heroku.com/ruby. We had the pleasure of speaking with Matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto), the creator of Ruby and Chief Ruby Architect at Heroku, about the release.
What’s New in Ruby 2.3: Interview with Matz
Ruby releases happen every year on Christmas day. Why Christmas?
Ruby …
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- Last Updated: April 12, 2024
- Terence Lee
Developers are worthy of great experiences and at Heroku we aim to help improve this. Whether its making it easier to prepare your application for production on Heroku, not having to worry about security updates in your database, or getting notified of the latest rails vulnerability we want to make the world better for developers. This extends beyond the Heroku platform as well. For instance, our Ruby Task Force contributes back to projects like …
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