Complexity is the enemy of velocity. 🛠️
PixieBrix chose Heroku to avoid the "infrastructure trap" and keep their focus 100% on product innovation. Now they're handling massive traffic spikes and meeting enterprise security requirements with ease.
Learn more: https://sforce.co/3PTCtDC
Heroku CLI v11 has been upgraded to v11. This version replaces the previous architecture with an ESM-first foundation and oclif v4 for improved performance and stability.
Key updates:
⚡ Faster performance
🔍 New "heroku search" command
🎨 Semantic terminal colors
Read more: https://sforce.co/4lZ0cOy
One fix. Universal benefit. 🚀
When Cloud Native Buildpacks solves a problem for Heroku, the entire ecosystem gets the same solution.
CNB maintainer Juan Bustamante explains how upstream collaboration with the CNCF ensures progress is shared, not siloed.
The details: https://sforce.co/41uOoKo
More headroom, less friction. ⚡️
We've updated #Heroku defaults to support today's heavier application stacks:
📦 Max slug size: 500MB ➡️ 1GB
⏱️ Extended build compile timeouts
Spend less time optimizing slugs and more time shipping.
Full update here: https://sforce.co/4uIGbzJ
The best infrastructure is the kind you never have to think about. 🛠️
In a new post, CNB maintainer Juan Bustamante pulls back the curtain on the "invisible" work that keeps modern platforms running, from 27 releases to critical security patches.
Read more: sforce.co/4bgUPGY
Troubleshooting shouldn't be a scavenger hunt. 🔍
The latest SolarWinds Papertrail add-on for Heroku brings logs and metrics into one unified dashboard. Stop guessing and start correlating performance data with real-time log output.
Streamline your visibility: sforce.co/4t1Jv7J
Heads up: Industry standards for SSL/TLS certs are changing. 🔐
On March 15, TLS certificate lifetimes drop to 200 days. If you use Heroku ACM, we handle the updated rotation logic for you. If you manage certs manually, it’s time to update your scripts.
Full details: https://sforce.co/4rORioY
New models on Heroku Managed Inference and Agents! ⚡️
☑️ Frontier models like Claude Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6
☑️ Open-weight models like DeepSeek v3.2, Kimi K2.5, and more
☑️ Cohere Embed V4
🔗 Details sforce.co/4qQvw2S
Your RAG app might be finding documents that are "close" in vector space but still fail to answer a user's actual question.
Two-Stage Retrieval adds a reranking model to score your vector search results. It swaps "Is this similar?" for "Does this answer the question?" https://sforce.co/3OcQyLk
Similarity ≠ Relevance
You need answers, not just keyword matches. Below is an AI Search reference showing how to build a production grade enterprise AI search with Heroku Managed Inference + Agents and pgvector.
Ensure your RAG search results actually answer questions: https://sforce.co/4rtBE1X
Salesforce’s DET External Experiences Team uses Heroku to power its customer success scorecards, bringing together data from across Salesforce to help CSMs, AEs, and signature customers identify where and how to maximize user satisfaction and reduce attrition.
🔗 https://sforce.co/4bK1SZ5
The Heroku platform now supports new reasoning and efficient open-weight models.
You can easily optimize latency by enabling prompt caching with minimal setup.
Learn more here https://sforce.co/49OnYHj
👀 See how the Salesforce Digital Enterprise Technology team uses Heroku, Agentforce, and Data 360. Their solutions empower employees with Gen AI integrated in @SlackHQ, extend Agentforce with AppLink, and much more. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmJv09rwc5c
Engineering Agent helped more than 11,000 Salesforce engineers maximize their productivity, bringing insight from structured and unstructured data into thousands of conversations.
This digital teammate is projected to save 275,000 labor hours. 🔗 https://sforce.co/45hkufg
Downtime just isn’t an option for Watch Duty.
Discover how they built a resilient alert system that scaled to 100K requests/second during the LA fires, keeping 3.5M people informed without a single second of downtime. 🛠️
Sign up here 👉 https://sforce.co/3LfgdCj
Deploy complex Data 360 integrations in days, not months. 💡
The Blueprint for Success: ⭐ Flexibility: Use the best languages + tools for the job. ⭐ Security: Unified models with AppLink. ⭐ Ops Efficiency: Elastic compute for max Data 360 performance.
👀 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5E90lhK83U
The Salesforce Data Migration team switched to Heroku and no longer has to spend three months of project hours setting up just one application processing system.
Heroku establishes a framework for them that can be reused and easily modified for every project.
🔗 https://sforce.co/4qLIgZ3
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How will automation change our workflows, and how can background agents make us more efficient? Shiva Nimmagadda joins @julianduque.co on the latest episode of Code[ish] to share his thoughts on the near future of AI in the workplace.
Listen now to find out. https://sforce.co/4jro3oK
Heroku Managed Inference and Agents now includes leading proprietary models like the full Claude 4.5 family (Opus, Sonnet, Haiku) and Nova 2, as well as open-weight models like Kimi K2 Thinking, MiniMax M2, and Qwen3. https://sforce.co/49trA1t
“You can just try something, write some code, build a new thing, push, and it works.” 💬
Watch the first in a series of special Code[ish] vodcast episodes to hear how Audata is using the platform and connecting it with other services, too: https://sforce.co/3XXfdp4
#Codeish #Podcast #Developer
Heroku now provides access to:
☑️ Proprietary #AI models like Claude Opus 4.5 and Nova 2
☑️ Open-weight models like Kimi K2 Thinking, MiniMax M2, and Qwen3
🔗 Details https://sforce.co/44viIXy
⏱️ Users of Heroku’s Router 2.0 have reported a massive reduction in latency after upgrading.
Check the technical breakdown to see the graph showing how Puma 7 eliminated persistent latency spikes 👉 https://sforce.co/47XpSpH
This fix benefits any Ruby app receiving keep-alive connections.
🗞️ Heroku AppLink now uses #JWT Authorization, solving for pains caused by both CI/CD pipelines and traditional web-based flow.
This directly addresses the need for automation and is recommended for server-to-server communication.
Details here 👉 https://sforce.co/4rRQSyD
Can you and your teams utilize new insights on operational efficiency and developer flexibility? This chat will cover both extensively, led by #Salesforce IT leaders and engineers who’ve put their lessons to the test as true Heroku “Customers Zero.”
📅 Register here: https://sforce.co/3MsVbQI
What have you done in #Heroku AI Studio? It's your workspace for smarter, faster AI app development.
Go from prompt to production with greater speed and precision: https://sforce.co/4pA61DM
The Salesforce+ team found itself tasked with a short deadline and a big ask: create a streaming service for all Salesforce content, and it needed to be ready by Dreamforce.
Their engineers were able to start quickly and focus on feature development, not infrastructure: https://sforce.co/44cCQNN
Join our fireside chat with #Salesforce IT leaders and engineers, who will show you the blueprint for 👇
1️⃣ Achieving operational efficiency.
2️⃣ Enabling #developer flexibility.
3️⃣ Securing custom integrations.
4️⃣ Accelerating time to value.
Register here: https://sforce.co/4owcg9N
Say goodbye to data limits 👋 The new Heroku #Postgres Advanced allows over 200TB of storage and showed over 4X throughput in initial tests.
And look, we wrote a blog post about it: https://sforce.co/484UILE
Learn how we eliminated complex, brittle ETL by leveraging Heroku #AIPaaS, achieving sub-minute data freshness and 99.99% uptime across #Salesforce and 20+ Heroku apps, along with real-time insights for our business using Tableau.
🔗 https://sforce.co/44a7Pdj
#Heroku #Salesforce #BusinessData
It's just like Jon Dodson to sidetrack our 12-Factor episode by asking special guest Vish Abrams what he thinks about Back to the Future Part II.
But don't worry, they get back to the dev talk... eventually.
Listen online at https://sforce.co/4kbFkBj
