--- title: Bigger Slugs and Greater Build Timeout Flexibility description: Heroku has increased the default maximum compressed slug size from 500MB to 1GB, and also raised build compile timeouts. These changes are aimed at reducing... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/bigger-slugs-and-greater-build-timeout-flexibility-ppc2frzuq twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Bigger Slugs and Greater Build Timeout Flexibility | daily.dev og:description: Heroku has increased the default maximum compressed slug size from 500MB to 1GB, and also raised build compile timeouts. These changes are aimed at reducing... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/bigger-slugs-and-greater-build-timeout-flexibility-ppc2frzuq og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/ppc2FRZuQ.png og:image:alt: Bigger Slugs and Greater Build Timeout Flexibility og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Bigger Slugs and Greater Build Timeout Flexibility **[Heroku](https://daily.dev/sources/heroku)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Heroku has increased the default maximum compressed slug size from 500MB to 1GB, and also raised build compile timeouts. These changes are aimed at reducing deployment friction for applications with large dependencies, particularly AI and machine learning libraries. Larger slugs do come with a trade-off: slower dyno boot times due to longer download and extraction, so keeping slugs lean is still recommended. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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