Smartphone notification startup Urban Airship has launched a new app in the add-on marketplace of platform-as-a-service provider Heroku, a move to give PaaS developers better access to push messaging solutions.
Guest Post "'Mobile' is just another way of saying 'how apps should work,' whether they are on my laptop, my tablet, my phone—or for that matter, on my thermostat, my car dashboard, or my refrigerator.
Tom Lehman, Rap Genius co-founder, explains why Heroku's public statements on their customer service don't hold water with him.
Amid its first big PR problem, Heroku's leader ignores PR and talks about how respect, trust, failure, and success stand to shape his company and the developer community.
"It's a critical part of the Ruby infrastructure," the programmer said. "Everything depends on RubyGems."
Heroku was alerted to a security vulnerability that let anyone change an account's password and take over the account. The company reacted quickly, pushing out a fix the next day.
Looks like last night’s Netflix outages didn’t happen just because too many of us were escaping our families in the warm, familiar glow of bad TV shows. It’s Amazon’s fault. Specifically, Amazon Web Services, and more specifically yet, EC2.
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Popular platform-as-a-service Heroku has updated its add-on marketplace with more features to help developers and cloud tool providers get more out of the service.
Editor's Pick Platform-as-a-Service is part of the booming cloud computing sector, one area of the cloud that some analysts and developers have overlooked. But recent research shows that PaaS is no longer the ugly duckling of the cloud industry -- and that it's ready to grow quite a bit during the next few years.
Stop laughing, you cynical, 20-something Rubyist. Heroku's got a plan. A big, lucrative plan.
Behind every cloud, there's.. a cloud. Cloud services may not actually be saving you money.
Salesforce, the enterprise software giant, has been on a buying spree, and in recent years, it has welcomed almost a dozen dashing founders and CEOs into its corporate sanctuary in San Francisco. Here are seven of them.
Email-management startup SendGrid has partnered with leading Platform-as-a-Service providers including Heroku, Engine Yard, and CloudBees, the company announced today.
SendGrid helps more than 60,000 web application companies and developers send all kinds of emails to their customers, including shipping notifications, …
Salesforce’s social productivity service Do.com has moved out of beta and into general availability for anyone who wants to give it a spin.
When Do.com debuted in early November in limited beta, the company gave VentureBeat 200 invites, and I …
MarketScout is a lean Australian startup that’s dependent on other cloud services to make it run, so when it came to deciding on a Platform-as-a-Service provider, the company had an important decision to make. They chose Salesforce-owned Heroku and still …
Today, businesses can do all their application development in the cloud, thanks to Platform as a Service (PaaS) technology. This is a fast-moving trend in enterprise technology, and while it sounds dry, things start to get very interesting when it …
Major platform-as-a-service provider Heroku has expanded its offerings with the new Heroku Postgres standalone service for developers who work with SQL databases, the company announced today.
Heroku has offered developers already using its service tools with PostgreSQL for several years, …
Box.net, which provides cloud storage services for the enterprise, announced its third-party developer network today, called the Box Innovation Network, or /bin.
Enterprise apps may not be the sexiest market segment for developers, but these are apps that the biggest, …
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Anyone who who follows technology trends has undoubtedly heard the term “cloud service” thrown around a few gazillion times over the past few months. But if you don’t know the difference between terms such as PaaS, IaaS and SaaS, don’t …
The CloudBeat category has been sitting atop VentureBeat’s homepage for a few months, but today we’re officially launching the channel with web app performance manager New Relic as our channel sponsor.
Over the last few years, an incredible amount of …
