Software Development

Earlier today, Heroku announced SSL Beta, a way to provide SSL on your heroku-hosted app for a much lower cost than it used to be. This is an awesome feature, entirely in line with all the changes SSL for over the past year.

I spend most of my time at Heroku working on our support tools and services; help.heroku.com is one such example. Heroku’s help application depends on the Platform API to, amongst other things, authenticate users, authorize or deny access, and fetch user data.

Spoiler: this is not a sad story.

Working with our support team, I often see customers having timeout problems. Typically, their applications will start throwing H12 errors.

For the past few months, I’ve been experimenting with go quite a bit.

I’m used to, when I want to update my local git repository with the distant one, to use git pull It works well. Until …