Heroku is suffering a widespread outage that has lasted over six hours, preventing developers from logging into the platform and breaking website functionality.

—Deploying through Heroku —Agile software development and associated workflow tools —Entity Relationship Diagrams —MySQL …and I’m sure I’m missing some things here.

Xeround offers a cloud database-as-a-service for MySQL-based applications. Currently the service is offered for EC2 MySQL databases, as well as Rackspace-MySQL and Heroku-MySQL applications.