TV4 Presses Play with Heroku’s EU Safe Harbor Certification Based in Sweden, TV4 Group is the country's largest commercial television company with a broad channel portfolio that includes a wide range of programming: news, sport, entertainment, film, and more. To bring TV4 online, TV4 turned to the Heroku platform to bring their new streaming video service TV4 Play live in 2010. They found that Heroku gave them the flexibility to quickly scale up for large traffic spikes for high traffic live events and then scale down to normal traffic level afterwards. Their On-Demand Video app gets over 750,000 unique visitors a week, all powered by Heroku. TV4 has continued to migrate more of their legacy applications from their hosting company, and dedicated new development onto the Heroku platform. He

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