Salesforce has confirmed it is stepping back from active development of Heroku, creating a turning point for one of the cloud industry’s most influential platform-as-a-service offerings. While the company insists the service remains fully supported, the decision to halt new feature development and stop selling enterprise contracts to new customers indicates a broader strategic shift […]
Heroku Uplifts Developer Experience with a Shorter Build and Deploy Cycle
Across the country, companies are on a quest to find an easy button to fast-track delivery of applications to customers. An accumulating number of side tasks are continually pushing out their time to market. A central issue that has plagued app development companies is the stretched-out phase of deployment that begins after developers have written […]
The Top 5 Challenges to Overcome with Heroku Logging
Heroku can be a very powerful tool for monitoring the massive amount of data generated by your applications, systems, APIs and add-ons. One thing you may have discovered with Heroku logging is that making sense of data within your log files can be time-consuming. When you’re running large numbers of applications which process tons of […]
Why Salesforce?
Over the past 20 years, Salesforce has become the fastest growing enterprise software platform, and a market leader in sales, service, marketing, integration and custom application development among other areas. Although there are many reasons why a company might adopt or consider using Salesforce, the overriding value proposition is that it provides tons of capabilities […]
Don’t Make Me Code Podcast: A New Heavybit Series on Developer Experience
Welcome to Don’t Make Me Code, a new podcast that discusses developer experience design and the unique challenges you face when building developer facing products. Don’t Make Me Code is hosted by Steve Boak, co-founder and CPO at Opsee, and David Dollar, co-founder and CEO at Convox. This podcast is brought to you by Heavybit, a […]
To Be Continuous Podcast: How Do You Deal with Your Data?
Welcome to To Be Continuous, a show about Continuous Delivery and software development hosted by Paul Biggar, Founder of CircleCI, and Edith Harbaugh, CEO of LaunchDarkly. Edith Harbaugh and Paul Biggar talk with Peter van Hardenberg about about continuous delivery in the context of organizational structure, databases and pricing. Peter is a co-founder of the Heroku Postgres product team. For more than […]
To Be Continuous: Empathy in Software Development
Thanks for listening to To Be Continuous, a show about Continuous Delivery and software development hosted by Paul Biggar, Founder of CircleCI, and Edith Harbaugh, CEO of LaunchDarkly. In this segment of To Be Continuous, Edith Harbaugh and Paul Biggar talk with Sam Stokes about empathy in software development, how mini-services are the new microservices, and constantly updating software in […]
Docker as a framework for your DevOps culture
If you’re like me and spend a lot of time evaluating new technologies with the goal of “doing more faster” with your engineering organization, then you’re certainly aware of the many choices of DevOps tools like Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Salt, etc. In my opinion each of these tools is amazing at one piece of the […]