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All Heroku Episodes

A collection of podcasts with Heroku engineers, developers, and product managers.

Episodes

Code[ish] • April 1st, 2026

Kubernetes World: Finding Your Path in the Cloud Native Ecosystem

Hosted by Julián Duque, Yadin Porter de León, Bart Farrell
Bart Farrell from KubeFM and LearnKube joins Julian and Yadin to discuss Kubernetes World: Finding Your Path in the Cloud Native Ecosystem, a new free ebook and career guide that helps new community members navigate the complex Kubernetes landscape. From the importance of a welcoming community to a behind-the-scenes look at how the ebook was created, this episode will interest all cloud-native professionals.
Hosted By:
Julián Duque
Julián Duque
Principal Developer Advocate, Heroku
@julian_duque
Yadin Porter de León
Yadin Porter de León
Director, Product Marketing, Heroku
with Guest:
Bart Farrell
Bart Farrell

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  • DevLife
  • cloud native
  • Kubernetes

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Code[ish] • March 4th, 2026

Heroku in the Wild: Saving Lives with Nonprofit Watch Duty

Hosted by Julián Duque, Dave Merrick
During the Los Angeles wildfires in 2025, more than 10 million people relied on Watch Duty for potentially life-saving information. On this episode of Code[ish], its Cofounder and CTO Dave Merrick talks Julián Duque through how the application works and the technologies like Heroku that make it possible.

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  • Heroku in the Wild
  • autoscaling
  • caching
  • scaling

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Code[ish] • February 4th, 2026

How Salesforce Leverages Heroku

Hosted by Julián Duque, Robbie Birbeck
Robbie Birbeck, VP of Digital Enterprise Technology at Salesforce, joins Julián Duque to talk about how Salesforce leverages Heroku. Filmed at the Palace Hotel in downtown San Francisco, the big star of this episode is Agentforce, which helps Salesforce employees with IT and HR questions, among others.

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  • Deeply Technical

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Code[ish] • January 21st, 2026

Building Agentic Apps with RubyLLM

Hosted by Julián Duque, Freedom Dumlao
Vestmark manages more than 1.7 trillion in assets, and its CTO, Freedom Dumlao, joins Julián Duque to discuss how AI is helping its advisors in their day-to-day work. Filmed at the Palace Hotel in downtown San Francisco, the pair discuss the role of AI in development and why all its new products are being built using Ruby.

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  • Tools and Tips
  • Agents
  • AI

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Code[ish] • January 7th, 2026

Engineering Excellence and AI Productivity

Hosted by Julián Duque, Shiva Nimmagadda
In our second video special from the Palace Hotel, Julián Duque is joined by Shiva Nimmagadda, Vice President of Excellence, True AI and Analytics at Salesforce. Together, the pair discuss the various ways his team is using AI to improve developer efficiency, productivity, and output.

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  • Deeply Technical
  • AI
  • Salesforce

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Code[ish] • December 17th, 2025

AI Workflows for Support Ticket Integration

Hosted by Julián Duque, Keegan Bakker

Filmed at the Palace Hotel in downtown San Francisco, this week’s episode of Code[ish] is the first in a short series of video specials!

To kick things off, Julián Duque is joined by Keegan Bakker, CEO of audience engagement platform Audata, to explore how Heroku helped the app grow from a hobby idea to a powerful tool for major organizations across the globe.

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  • Heroku in the Wild
  • Agentforce
  • AI
  • scaling

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Code[ish] • December 3, 2025

AI Agents and Open Source

Hosted by Julián Duque, Rizel Scarlett
Host Julián Duque connects with Rizel Scarlett from Block, Inc., to discuss how agentic AI is changing the FinTech landscape. Block, Inc. is the parent company behind popular services like Square, Cash App, and many more.

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  • Tools and Tips
  • Agents
  • AI

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Code[ish] • November 19th, 2025

Getting to the Heart of Twelve-Factor Apps

Hosted by Jon Dodson, Vish Abrams
On this week’s episode of Code[ish], Vish Abrams joins Jon Dodson to talk about the role of AI, the ways Twelve-Factor aids developers, and how science fiction shaped a little of their own history.

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  • Tools and Tips
  • 12 factor
  • AI

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Code[ish] • November 5th, 2025

Introducing Heroku Vibes

Hosted by Jon Dodson, Mauricio Gomes
This week’s episode is an exciting one because we’re talking about our brand-new release, Heroku Vibes! Mauricio Gomes joins Jon Dodson to go over what Heroku Vibes is, what it’s capable of, and how it could be a game-changer for developers and non-developers alike.

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  • Deeply Technical
  • AI
  • Heroku Vibes
  • Vibe Coding

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Code[ish] • October 22nd, 2025

Talking Traces and OpenTelemetry

Hosted by Jon Dodson, Alex Arnell
Jon Dodson has an 11-year Heroku veteran with him on the podcast this week, Principal Member of Technical Staff Alex Arnell. Together they talk through the native integration of OpenTelemetry in Heroku Fir, the benefits of traces over traditional logs, how they assist debugging, and what’s next for observability in modern development.

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  • Deeply Technical
  • OpenTelemetry

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Code[ish] • October 8th, 2025

Heroku in the Wild: Vanshiv on Using the Right Tools

Hosted by Julián Duque, Gaurav Kheterpal
You won’t find too many developers with more experience in the Salesforce ecosystem than our guest this week! Not only is Gaurav Kheterpal a Salesforce MVP and Trailblazer, he also still uses his original Salesforce org from 2007. He joined Julián Duque to discuss how Vanshiv Technologies delivers client work with Heroku, the importance of embracing AI, and why it’s vital for developers to keep an open mind in choosing the right tool for the job.

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  • Heroku in the Wild
  • AI
  • developer tools
  • Salesforce

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Code[ish] • September 24th, 2025

What’s Possible with Heroku AppLink

Hosted by Jon Dodson, Chris Wall

This week we’re taking a deeply technical dive into our newest feature: Heroku AppLink! Jon Dodson is joined by Chris Wall, Salesforce Architect and creator of AppLink, to explore what AppLink offers developers and how it brings Heroku and Salesforce closer together.

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  • Deeply Technical

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