Larger Postgres Plans, Connection Pooling, and Chaos Engineering

Read the latest Heroku news and articles, catch a webinar, and discover new add-ons, podcasts, and more. [View in Browser]( [Heroku Newsletter]( January 2021 newsletter Supporting Our Community During this challenging time, we’ll continue to share some of the many resources available from the Salesforce family. We hope you find them useful or inspiring. [[Life Blog] An Iconic Fundraising Tradition Returns with a 21st Century Twist →]( Heroku, Xplenty, and Tableau enabled the Muscular Dystrophy Association to build and run a new kind of telethon on social media that raised over $10m. - [Heroku’s COVID-19 Resources →]( Headlines [[Product News] Announcing Larger Heroku Postgres Plans →]( Run more complex workloads on Heroku more easily than ever with up to 4TB of storage, 96 Cores, and 768GB of RAM. [[Product News] Connection Pooling for Heroku Postgres Is Now Generally Available →]( Unlock up to 10,000 client connections to Heroku Postgres and build more complex, and higher scale, applications with simpler architectures. [[Engineering Blog] Building a Monorepo with Yarn 2 →]( Yarn 2 is now officially supported by Heroku, and Heroku developers are able to take advantage of leveraging zero-installs during their Node.js builds. Learn about a popular use case for Yarn that is enhanced by Yarn 2: using workspaces to manage dependencies for your monorepo and taking advantage of Yarn 2’s cache. [[Salesforce Engineering Blog] Heroku CI and GitHub Checks Integrations →]( Learn about GitHub Checks integration with Heroku CI — the same method can be used with any CI tools that expose APIs to fetch CI logs. You may also enjoy - [Three Ways to Integrate Slack with Heroku →]( - [Using Your CI/CD Pipeline to Prevent Your App from Getting Hacked →]( - [Master the Art of Planning Poker on Heroku and Salesforce with These Tips →]( Add-on Marketplace Generally Available Add-ons [Raygun Real User Monitoring →]( Take advantage of user-centric, front-end performance monitoring. Add-on Marketplace Beta Add-ons [DataDNA →]( Quickly build charts and dashboards across PostgreSQL databases. No ETL needed. Built on Heroku [Hotel Engine’s Startup Journey Is Smooth and Steady on Heroku →]( Early experimentation, rapid iteration, and Salesforce integration helped to build this growing hotel booking business. [SharinPix Powers Seamless Image Management on Heroku for Salesforce Users →]( This startup built a Rails app on Heroku to process, catalog, and distribute digital photos. Heroku Connect syncs data in real time with Salesforce to support business workflows. Code[ish] Podcasts [Chaos Engineering →]( December 17th, 2020 - Episode 103 Mikolaj Pawlikowski, SRE Engineering Lead at Bloomberg, teaches us how to break our code and have fun doing it by embracing the principles of chaos engineering. [The Evolution of Service Meshes →]( December 22nd, 2020 - Episode 104 If you've got multiple services interacting regularly across boundaries, it might be time to consider adding a service mesh! Hear more from Luke Kysow, Senior Software Engineer at HashiCorp. [Event Sourcing and CQRS →]( December 29th, 2020 - Episode 105 Andrzej Ludwikowski, Software Architect at SoftwareMill, describes how to interpret application data in new ways through the concept of event sourcing. [Growing a Self-Funded Company →]( January 5th, 2021 - Episode 106 Bigger Pockets’ Alli McGee, Product Manager, and Lewis Buckley, Senior Application Engineer, discuss how to build "Minimum Loveable Products" when your self-funded company depends on revenue from users. [How to Write Seriously Good Software →]( January 12th, 2021 - Episode 107 Learn how to write cleaner, stronger, faster code with advice from Marco Faella, Assistant Professor at the University of Naples, Italy. [I Was There: Stories of Production Incidents II →]( January 19th, 2021 - Special Episode Ifat Ribon, Senior Developer at LaunchPad Lab, and Chris Ostrowski, CTO of Dutchie, discuss issues that stemmed from their application's increased popularity. --------------------------------------------------------------- [We’re Hiring →]( Join a team that’s transforming how apps are built. [Come work with us. →]( [Salesforce + Heroku]( Salesforce 415 Mission Street, 3rd Floor San Francisco, CA 94105 [Update your email preferences]( [Privacy]( [Heroku Blog]( [Code[ish] Podcasts]( [Heroku Twitter]( [Heroku on Instagram]( [Heroku on YouTube]( [Heroku on Facebook]( [Heroku on GitHub]( [Heroku on LinkedIn](