Your staging environment should be a near-identical replica of production: same codebase, separate config, separate data. That's what makes it useful. Here's how to set one up on Heroku: https://sforce.co/4wfaPBq

Heroku CLI v11.8.0 now stores credentials in your system keychain by default. 🔒 No workflow changes: commands like "git push heroku main" work the same, and CI/CD using HEROKU_API_KEY won't break. Better credential security with no disruption. 👉 Details: https://sforce.co/4blAVKh

Skip the manual dashboard digging. Use this Heroku Connect diagnostic command to audit your Salesforce<>Postgres data sync for connection environment bottlenecks, missing constraints, or unsupported field types. Details: https://sforce.co/4xOHdvH

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

In the Room with Salesforce DET: Putting Generative AI Into the Hands of Every Salesforce Employee

We sat down with Salesforce Vice President of Digital Enterprise Technology, Robbie Birbeck. In this deep dive, Robbie reveals how the Digital Enterprise Technology (DET) team builds the tech solutions that empower the global workforce of Salesforce, fr...

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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

Salesforce's Blueprint to Maximize Data Value with Heroku

Hear from Salesforce IT Leaders and engineers on the Data Migration and OrgFarm teams as they reveal their successful Customer Zero blueprint. They'll share how Heroku serves as the essential architectural extension to drive operational efficiency and d...

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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

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

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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