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Heroku is not shutting down. On February 6, 2026, Heroku CPO Nitin T Bhat announced that the platform was moving to a sustaining engineering model: new feature development has stopped, but Heroku remains actively supported and production-ready. There is no announced EOL date or migration deadline, existing apps can keep running, credit-card customers can continue using the service, and existing Enterprise customers can renew. What changed is the roadmap, not immediate availability.

Ask a compliance team where their EU customer data lives, and most will point confidently at a dashboard showing a Frankfurt or Dublin region. Ask their legal counsel whether that data is beyond the reach of a foreign government demand, and the confidence usually drops. Those are two different questions. Since 12 September 2025 there has been a dated EU obligation that turns on the second one rather than the first.

Learn what backup and disaster recovery means, how BDR works, and why it matters for reducing downtime and data loss. Backup and disaster recovery (BDR) is what keeps data loss from becoming a business-wide catastrophe. And to protect their business, IT teams need to ask if they can recover the right data, in the right order, fast enough for the business to keep operating. A backup can preserve a copy of a file, database, or workload, but disaster recovery is what brings the wider service back online.

Database branching solves a strange mismatch in modern development: code gets its own branch, but the database often doesn’t. Developers can work independently in Git, then end up sharing the same development database, waiting for a fresh copy, or trying not to break each other’s schema changes. The result is a lot of database sprawl.

We are excited to announce a new wave of updates across our.NET data connectivity and ORM product portfolio, delivering enhanced security, broader platform support, modern SQL Server compatibility, AI-ready capabilities, and productivity improvements for.NET developers.

Today, we are introducing Spike’s new logo, a new website, and honestly, a new identity from the ground up. This is very exciting day for all of us at Spike. More companies are being built today than at any other point in history. Small teams are making big products. And no matter the size of the team, every single one of them needs reliability. Reliability should not be a second-class citizen for any company, no matter where they are in their journey.

DevOps platform feature lists increasingly look alike. CI/CD, multi-cloud, observability, GitOps, and AI-friendly automation can all appear as checkboxes while the implementation burden still falls on your team. The useful signal appears when you ask how each capability actually works, what evidence a vendor can show, and which parts your team still has to build. Can pipelines authenticate with a scoped machine identity? Can workloads reach cloud APIs without static keys?