Heroku Cookbook

Over 70 step-by-step recipes to solve the challenges of administering and scaling a real-world production web application on Heroku

About This Book

• Make use of popular open-source projects that you’ll learn to deploy and administer step-by-step
• Learn to effectively scale web applications while maintaining peak performance and reducing costs
• Get work done fast; packed with straight and to the point solutions to real-world problems that every Heroku user faces

Who This Book Is For

This book is intended for developers who want to learn what it takes to deploy and manage production level applications on Heroku. You may have already deployed applications to Heroku or may be entirely new to the platform. This book will get you up to speed quickly with all the knowledge needed to run real-world web applications on Heroku. When using the recipes in this book, it would be helpful to have some prior experience of working with Git and command line applications.

In Detail

Heroku is a Platform as a Service that enables developers to rapidly deploy and scale their web applications. Heroku is designed for developer happiness, freeing developers from doing system administrative tasks such as configuring servers and setting up load balancers. Developers are able to focus on what they do best, building web applications, while leaving the details of deployment and scaling to the experts at Heroku.

This practical guide is packed with step-by-step solutions to problems faced by every production-level web application hosted on Heroku. You’ll quickly get comfortable with managing your Heroku applications from the command line and then learn everything you need to know to deploy and administer production-level web applications.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Getting Started with Heroku
Chapter 2. Managing Heroku from the Command Line
Chapter 3. Setting Up a Staging Environment
Chapter 4. Production-ready with Heroku
Chapter 5. Error Monitoring and Logging Tools
Chapter 6. Load Testing a Heroku Application
Chapter 7. Optimizing Ruby Server Performance on Heroku
Chapter 8. Optimizing a Rails Application on Heroku
Chapter 9. Using and Administrating Heroku Postgres
Chapter 10. The Heroku Platform API