Heroku: Up and Running

Effortless Application Deployment and Scaling

Neil Middleton, Richard Schneeman (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

100 Seiten

2013
O'Reilly Media, Inc, USA (Verlag)
978-1-4493-4139-8 (ISBN)

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Take full advantage of Heroku’s cloud-based hosting services. This guide takes you through the inner workings of this PaaS platform and delivers practical advice for architecting your application to work as efficiently as possible. You’ll learn best practices for improving speed and throughput, solving latency issues, locating and fixing problems if your application goes down, and ensuring your deployments go smoothly.

By covering everything from basic concepts and primary components to add-on services and advanced topics such as buildpacks, this book helps you effectively deploy and manage your application with Heroku.

Learn your way around Heroku with the command line interface
Discover several methods for scaling your application to increase throughput
Speed up response time through performance optimizations
Solve latency issues by deploying your Heroku instance in new regions
Choose the right plan for using Heroku’s PostgreSQL database-as-a-service
Get a checklist of items to consider when deploying your application
Find and fix problems during deployment, at runtime, and when your application goes down
Understand how Heroku buildpacks work, and learn how customize your own

Neil Middleton has been developing web applications for over 15 years across a variety of industries and technologies. Now working for a popular agency in the south of England, Neil primarily spends his time writing Ruby applications and deploying to Heroku - the cloud platform provider. Neil is a massive fan of keeping things simple and straightforward.

Richard Schneeman has been writing Ruby on Rails apps since version 0.9. He works for Heroku on the Ruby Task Force and is responsible for the Ruby buildpack. He teaches Ruby at the University of Texas. Richard loves elegant solutions and beautiful code.

Chapter 1 Getting Started with Heroku
The Dawn of Virtual Servers
Enter the Cloud
You New Around Here?
Quick Start
Chapter 2 How Heroku Works
What Is a Dyno?
HTTP Routing
The Dyno Manager and Dynos
Other Services
Chapter 3 Understanding Performance and Scale
Horizontal Scaling and You
Speeding Up Your App
Explaining Postgres Performance
Caching Expensive Queries
Back that Task Up
Full-Text Search Apps
Performance Testing
Chapter 4 Heroku Regions
Multiregion or Single?
The Heroku Way
Constraints
Chapter 5 Heroku PostgreSQL
Why PostgreSQL?
Choosing the Right Plan
Getting Started
Importing and Exporting Data
PGBackups
Data Clips
Followers
Forking
Other Features
Chapter 6 Deployment
Timeliness
Backing Out
Testing
How to Deploy, and Deploy Well
Teams
DNS
Chapter 7 When It Goes Wrong
Dev Center
Heroku Support
Deploy Debugging
Runtime Error Detection and Debugging
Runtime Error Debugging
Chapter 8 Buildpacks
Before Buildpacks
Introducing the Buildpack
Release
Profile.d Scripts
Leveraging Multiple Buildpacks
Quick and Dirty Binaries in Your App
The Buildpack Recap
Colophon

Erscheint lt. Verlag	24.12.2013
Zusatzinfo	black & white illustrations, figures
Verlagsort	Sebastopol
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 233 mm
Gewicht	177 g
Einbandart	Paperback
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Netzwerke
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Software Entwicklung
ISBN-10	1-4493-4139-X / 144934139X
ISBN-13	978-1-4493-4139-8 / 9781449341398
Zustand	Neuware