heroku.md

Heroku

Cloud Application Platform for Web and Mobile Apps

Beginning Heroku

• Complete the Quickstart Guide
• Watch the Intro to Heroku Screencast
• Read Professional Heroku Programming
• Read The Heroku Hacker's Guide

You should be able to

• Write a Procfile.
• Store secrets and environmental variables in config vars.
• Deploy a basic app to Heroku.
• Provision an add-on.
• Add a dyno to an app.

Intermediate Heroku

• Read The 12-Factor App
• Browse Heroku's guides on Vimeo
• Explore Heroku's developer blog

You should be able to

• Understand the worker pattern.
• Achieve dev-prod parity by using foreman locally.
• Leverage Heroku logs as a source of visibility into app performance.
• Build an app with a concurrent web server.
• Understand request queuing.
• Use a tool like New Relic to gain visibility into response time variability.