Heroku: Up and Running

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

By covering everything from basic concepts and primary components to add-onservices and advanced topics such as build packs, this book helps youeffectively deploy and manage your application with Heroku.

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