--- title: Evolving the Backend Storage for Platform Metrics description: Heroku migrated to a new and improved storage backend for platform metrics to ensure security, reliability, and performance. The migration involved steps such... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/evolving-the-backend-storage-for-platform-metrics-aja9xrxiv twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Evolving the Backend Storage for Platform Metrics | daily.dev og:description: Heroku migrated to a new and improved storage backend for platform metrics to ensure security, reliability, and performance. The migration involved steps such... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/evolving-the-backend-storage-for-platform-metrics-aja9xrxiv og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/aJa9xRXIV.png og:image:alt: Evolving the Backend Storage for Platform Metrics 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. # Evolving the Backend Storage for Platform Metrics **[Heroku](https://daily.dev/sources/heroku)** · 6 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Heroku migrated to a new and improved storage backend for platform metrics to ensure security, reliability, and performance. The migration involved steps such as setting up parallel stream-processing jobs, running experiments, and gradually transitioning queries to the new storage backend. The migration to AWS's DynamoDB was successful and resulted in a more scalable and efficient system. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#heroku](https://daily.dev/tags/heroku), [#apache-kafka](https://daily.dev/tags/apache-kafka), [#apache-cassandra](https://daily.dev/tags/apache-cassandra) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/evolving-the-backend-storage-for-platform-metrics-aja9xrxiv) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Evolving the Backend Storage for Platform Metrics","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/evolving-the-backend-storage-for-platform-metrics-aja9xrxiv","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/evolving-the-backend-storage-for-platform-metrics-aja9xrxiv"},"datePublished":"2024-05-09T17:07:51.538Z","dateModified":"2024-05-09T17:07:50.626Z","description":"Heroku migrated to a new and improved storage backend for platform metrics to ensure security, reliability, and performance. The migration involved steps such...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/f0e1030a781174b379fa9432548bef13?_a=AQAEuiZ","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/f0e1030a781174b379fa9432548bef13?_a=AQAEuiZ","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Heroku","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Heroku","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/5211c8775c204d88836fcbf15d73b1b5","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/heroku"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/evolving-the-backend-storage-for-platform-metrics-aja9xrxiv","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":2},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"heroku,apache-kafka,apache-cassandra","timeRequired":"PT6M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Heroku","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/heroku"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Evolving the Backend Storage for Platform Metrics"}]} ```