Heroku in 2017: Advancing Developer Experience, Data, and Trust link View in Browser link graphic The 2017 Heroku Retrospective 2017 was a great year for Heroku and our users. We want to thank each of you for your feedback, beta participation, and spirit of innovation, which inspires how we think about our products and evolve the platform. In the past year, we released a range of new features to make the developer experience even more elegant. We bolstered our existing lineup of data services while providing security controls for building high compliance applications on the platform. With that, we’d like to take a moment and share some of the highlights from 2017. We hope you enjoy it, and we look forward to an even more exciting 2018! graphic Advancing the Developer Experience Unlabeled graphic To get missing image descriptions, open the context menu. heading level 3 link Heroku CI Run tests with zero queue time on every push to Git Hub using a low setup visual test runner that’s integrated with Heroku Pipelines for strong dev slash prod parity. heading level 3 link Free and Automated SSL Certs Heroku Automated Certificate Management handles all aspects of SSL slash TLS certificates for custom domains. This makes creating secure web applications easier than ever. heading level 3 link Heroku Autoscaling Check out how response based Autoscaling ensures that your app users always have a good experience. heading level 3 link The Heroku 16 Stack Heroku 16 includes updated stack libraries, a smoother Docker development experience, and improved compilation for Ruby and Python packages. heading level 3 link Container Registry and Runtime Create your own stack with your choice of base operating system and install any dependency. Take advantage of Docker's local development experience for dev slash prod parity. heading level 3 link Heroku Chat Ops for Slack Heroku Chat Ops uses the power of Heroku Pipelines to bring a collaborative deployment workflow to Slack. Deploy code, promote code, and keep track of your CI test status all from your Slack channel. heading level 3 link Einstein Vision Add on Learn how to embed custom image classification into your apps with a new Heroku Add‑on. heading level 3 link Release Phase Push your code and have Release Phase automatically run tasks that your app needs for production, such as a database schema migration, uploading static assets to a CDN, or invalidating a cache. heading level 3 link Heroku Exec and Language Runtime Metrics Use JVM Language Metrics to identify potential issues early by viewing indicators like garbage collection activity and heap memory usage, then SSH into a running dyno with Heroku Exec for further inspection. heading level 3 link Heroku Webhooks Integrate Heroku into custom workflows and third party tools. Get notifications of changes to your domain settings, releases, add ons, and dyno formations. separator graphic More Ways to Build Data Centric Apps on Heroku heading level 3 link Postgre SQL 10 Generally Available on Heroku The power of Postgre SQL 10 increased parallelism for performance, native table partitioning, and more is now generally available on Heroku Postgres. heading level 3 link New Plans and Pricing for Apache Kafka on Heroku Building event driven architectures is now easier and more accessible with new managed Kafka plans and pricing for development, testing, and low volume production needs. heading level 3 link Heroku Postgres Update: Configuration, Credentials, and CI Customize Heroku Postgres to meet your team’s needs. Configure database settings, manage user permissions with credentials, and auto provision Postgres for Heroku CI. heading level 3 link Heroku Connect Update: Fast Writes, Global Deployment, and Guided Management The latest release of Heroku Connect lets you sync customer data with Salesforce on average 5x faster, deploy closer to customers in 6 global regions, and be more productive. separator graphic Heroku Enterprise Extending Trust: Security Controls and Scale for Large Organisations heading level 3 link Heroku Shield Heroku Shield introduces new flavors of Dynos, Postgres databases, and Private Spaces that make Heroku suitable for running apps with higher accountability and compliance requirements, such as HIPAA. heading level 3 link PCI Compliance for Heroku Shield Build critical apps with the agility of the Heroku developer experience on a PCI compliant platform with Heroku Shield. heading level 3 link Heroku Private Space Peering for AWS Connect your Heroku apps securely and privately to AWS services, such as EC 2, RDS, Redshift, and more, to build a new class of multi cloud architectures. heading level 3 link DNS Service Discovery We’ve made it easier to build microservice architectures with the introduction of Service Discovery, a simple way to find other services using a standard DNS naming scheme. heading level 3 link Dublin Region for Private Spaces Deploy apps closer to your customers in Europe using a network isolated, dedicated runtime environment with your own private network and data services. link Log in today, give the new features a try, and link let us know what you think! 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