Heroku in 2018: Advancing Developer Experience, Trust & Compliance, and Data

news Last Updated: June 03, 2024 Vikram Rana, Senior Director, Product Marketing

2018 was an amazing year for Heroku and our customers. We want to extend a big thank you for your feedback, beta participation, and spirit of innovation, which inspires us every day to continuously improve and advance the platform.

In the past year, we released a range of new features to make the developer experience more productive, more standards based, and more open. We achieved significant compliance milestones, provided trust controls for creating multi-cloud apps, and improved our existing lineup of data services.

With that, we’d like to take a moment and look back at some of the highlights from 2018. We hope you enjoy it, and we look forward to an even more exciting 2019!

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Managing Real-time Event Streams and SQL Analytics with Apache Kafka on Heroku, Amazon Redshift, and Metabase

engineering Last Updated: June 03, 2024 Vikram Rana, Senior Director, Product Marketing

Building a SaaS product, a system to handle sensor data from an internet-connected thermostat or car, or an e-commerce store often requires handling a large stream of product usage data, or events. Managing event streams lets you view, in near real-time, how users are interacting with your SaaS app or the products on your e-commerce store; this is interesting because it lets you spot anomalies and get immediate data-driven feedback on new features. While this type of stream visualization is useful to a point, pushing events into a data warehouse lets you ask deeper questions using SQL.

In this post, we’ll show you how to build a system using Apache Kafka on Heroku to manage and visualize...

The Heroku 2016 Retrospective

news Last Updated: June 16, 2020 Vikram Rana, Senior Director, Product Marketing

As we begin 2017, we want to thank you for supporting Heroku. Your creativity and innovation continues to inspire us, and pushed us to deliver even more new products and features in 2016. We especially want to thank everyone who helped us by beta testing, sharing Heroku with others, and providing feedback. Here are the highlights of what became generally available in 2016.

Advancing the Developer Experience

Heroku Pipelines

A new way to structure, manage and visualize continuous delivery.

Heroku Review Apps

Test code at a shareable URL using disposable Heroku apps that spin up with each GitHub pull request.

Free SSL for Apps on Paid Dynos

Get SSL encryption on custom domains for...

The Heroku 2015 Retrospective

news Last Updated: August 24, 2016 Vikram Rana, Senior Director, Product Marketing

As we start this New Year, we wanted to give you a recap of our 2015, a year filled with a lot of new products and features. We especially want to express our gratitude to everyone who helped us with inspiration, beta testing, and feedback. In case you missed anything, here are the highlights of 2015.