Heroku News for December: Stream Processing with Kafka, Jekyll Tips, and Postgres 10 General Availability

[View in Browser]( [Heroku Newsletter] It's been a busy few months for Heroku data services, with new Postgres features, a multi-tenant managed Kafka solution, and performance improvements for Heroku Connect. We're continuing our data-driven journey this month by introducing additional Postgres enhancements, along with some tips and tricks from customers and Heroku engineering to make your experience of working with data on the platform even better. [PostgreSQL 10 Now Generally Available on Heroku[link arrow]]( The power of PostgreSQL 10—increased parallelism for performance, native table partitioning, and more—is now generally available on Heroku Postgres. [Engineering Blog Post: Kafka Streams on Heroku]([link arrow] Heroku Engineer Jeff Chao shares a graceful approach to stream processing & threshold detection using Kafka Streams on Heroku. [Technical Session: Introduction to Event-Driven Architectures with Apache Kafka[link arrow]]( At this year's Dreamforce, Heroku customer Ryan Townsend shared his experience moving to a more flexible, event-driven architecture using patterns like Event Sourcing and CQRS, all powered by Apache Kafka on Heroku. [Engineering Blog Post: Running Jekyll on Heroku [link arrow]]( Heroku Engineer Caleb Thompson walks you through creating a static site or blog using Jekyll, made even easier with the Heroku developer experience. [Heroku Button of the Month]( [Heroku Button of the Month]( [Alexa]( [Heroku button]( Create an Amazon Alexa skill quickly using this template app, which makes it easy to generate hundreds (or thousands) of sample utterances with just a few lines of code. The template shows you how to define intents, build responses, and handle session objects. Deploy it to Heroku for free and then [explore the documentation]( to finalize the setup. [Customer Story of the Month]( [Customer Story of the Month]( [Parse]( [Setting Up for Scale with Heroku Postgres]( humanpredictions started with a free plan to launch their MVP. As business grew, they seamlessly upgraded their Heroku Postgres database for more throughput and advanced data management tools. [Read more…]( [Dev Center]( [Dev Center]( New Dev Center Articles [Kafka Streams on Heroku]( Use the Kafka Streams Java client library to easily develop lightweight, scalable, and fault-tolerant stream processing apps on Heroku. [Heroku Add-on of the Month]( [Heroku Add-on of the Month]( [Quotaguard]( Snyk keeps your applications free of known vulnerabilities in open-source dependencies. With Snyk, you can monitor your application and scan each deploy to receive real-time notifications, along with detailed remediation information that helps you respond quickly. [Salesforce + Heroku]( Salesforce The Landmark @ 1 Market St. Suite 300 San Francisco, CA 94105 [Update your email preferences]( [Privacy]( [Heroku Blog]( [Heroku Twitter]( [Heroku on Instagram]( [Heroku on Facebook]( [Heroku on GitHub]( [Heroku on LinkedIn](