WebSockets are an exciting new HTML5 technology which has finally begun to pick up enough browser, server and library support to see much wider adoption, potentially driving a move towards a signficantly new kind/kinds of web client/server...

Meteor is the hot new framework for developing realtime write-once, run on server+client web apps. Since Pogoapp runs anything, we decided it better run meteor too.

Luckily there's already a buildpack for running meteor on Heroku + MongoLab. Since...

Pogoapp has started growing faster the past couple months, and we've started hitting some roadbumps as we scale up. We thought it'd be worth doing some occasional blogging about specific situations we've run into and how we've dealt with them to...

Following in Heroku's footsteps, and using their open source ruby buildpack in combination with our own custom binaries, we're now adding Ruby 2.0 preview support to our Pogoapp alpha trial for all users. The process for Pogoapp is just about the...

We've been careful to try to emphasize the term "app hosting" over "web hosting", because there's becoming more and more overlap in the tools for building and hosting web and other types of internet applications, and Pogoapp has always been...

Heroku has a very cool, useful feature where you can run a one-time process in its own isolated container ("dyno"), which is great for doing database migrations or other administrative tasks. It also gives users the ability to "attach" to these...

We've posted our first video of Pogoapp in action, showing the how easy to is to get started launching a simple "hello world" ruby web app built with Sinatra:

We've been working on expanding our Heroku REST API compatibility and getting one-time...

As we've been hacking away trying to turn Pogoapp into a reality, we've often had difficulty giving the elevator pitch for what this project is all about. To non-technical people it's tough to communicate something beyond "it's a new kind of web...