[PDF] Heroku: Up and Running

 Heroku: Up and Running

	Author	Neil Middleton and Richard Schneeman
	Isbn	9781449341398
	File size	6 Mb
	Year	2013
	Pages	100
	Language	English
	File format	PDF
	Category	Web Development

Heroku: Up and Running

Book Description:

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.

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