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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 product suite, including Runtime, API, DX, and our Data products. Additionally, we have opened roles in our Research, TPM, Documentation, and Product Management teams. Check out all our open roles .
Our public roadmap continues to evolve, and I am delighted to…
- Life
- Last Updated: July 22, 2024
- Sally Vedros
The need for speed takes on a new meaning in the face of a pandemic. With millions of lives at stake, everyone in the healthcare ecosystem, from medical facilities to laboratories to equipment manufacturers, races to do their part to help curb the spread.
With the coronavirus, the world put widespread diagnostic testing at the core of its pandemic response playbook. However, testing is only effective if the test results are accurate — a false negative could not only endanger the individual, but also their entire community.
Third-party quality assurance providers play a vital role in testing the tests. They make sure…
- Life
- Last Updated: December 04, 2020
- Sally Vedros
For many of us, changing jobs seems like the best way to grow professionally or advance our careers. Not so for Edd Morgan , Senior Director of Engineering at BiggerPockets . During his first year in college, he became the startup’s first employee. Twelve years later, Edd reflects on his unusually stable career path and how he’s helped to grow the company into a thriving business with two million users.
It all started with a part-time job
In 2008, Edd began studying computer science at the University of Bournemouth in the U.K. Like many college students, he needed…
- News
- Last Updated: October 08, 2020
- Scott Truitt
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 use Streaming Data Connectors today at no additional charge.
Customers use connectors to build streaming data pipelines between Salesforce and external stores like a Snowflake data lake or an AWS Kinesis queue for integration with other data sources. They also refactor…
- Engineering
- Last Updated: June 03, 2024
- Joe Kutner
YAML files dominate configuration in the cloud-native ecosystem. They’re used by Kubernetes, Helm, Tekton, and many other projects to define custom configurations and workflows. But YAML has its oddities, which is why the Cloud Native Buildpacks project chose TOML as its primary configuration format.
What is TOML?
TOML stands for Tom’s Obvious, Minimal Language. It’s a configuration file format created to be simple, readable, and predictable. Designed for humans first and machines second, TOML avoids syntactic ambiguity and is easy to understand even at a glance.
The format uses a key-value structure and supports sections, arrays, and nested tables. Its goal…
- Life
- Last Updated: April 03, 2024
- Sally Vedros
In today's global economy, English proficiency unlocks opportunity. People all over the world are motivated to improve their English skills in order to make a better life for themselves and their families. Cambly is a language education platform that helps millions of learners advance their careers by connecting them with English-speaking tutors from a similar professional background.
For many language learners, speaking is often the hardest skill to improve in a classroom setting. Conversation time is limited, and students tend to practice with each other rather than with a teacher. Some students may not have a…
- Engineering
- Last Updated: May 02, 2024
- Will Farrington
I work on Heroku’s Runtime Infrastructure team, which focuses on most of the underlying compute and containerization here at Heroku. Over the years, we’ve tuned our infrastructure in a number of ways to improve performance of customer dynos and harden security.
We recently received a support ticket from a customer inquiring about poor performance in two system calls (more commonly referred to as syscalls) their application was making frequently: clock_gettime(3) and gettimeofday(2) .
In this customer’s case, they were using a tool to do transaction tracing to monitor the performance of their application. This tool made many such system calls to measure…
- Engineering
- Last Updated: June 03, 2024
- Richard Schneeman
When API requests are made one-after-the-other they’ll quickly hit rate limits and when that happens:
If you provide an API client that doesn’t include rate limiting, you don’t really have an API client. You’ve got an exception generator with a remote timer.
— Richard Schneeman Stay Inside (@schneems) June 12, 2019
That tweet spawned a discussion that generated a quest to add rate throttling logic to the platform-api gem that Heroku maintains for talking to its API in Ruby.
If the term “rate throttling” is new to you, read Rate limiting, rate throttling, and how they work together…
- News
- Last Updated: April 04, 2024
- Sepideh Setayeshfar
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 availability.
The new version of Review Apps provides easier access management with a new permission system, and more flexibility for complex workflows with public APIs. It also no longer needs a staging, production, or placeholder app to host its configuration and collaborator access; this independence supports…
- Engineering
- Last Updated: May 02, 2024
- Garen Torikian
Text-based communication has a long history weaved into the evolution of the Internet, from IRC and XMPP to Slack and Discord. And where there have been humans, there have also been chatbots: scriptable programs that respond to a user’s commands, like messages in a chat room.
Chatbots don't require much in terms of computational power or disk storage, as they rely heavily on APIs to send actions and receive responses. But as with any kind of software, scaling them to support millions of user’s requests across the world requires a fail-safe operational strategy. Salesforce offers a Live Agent…
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