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Heroku Cookbook

By : Mike Coutermarsh
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Heroku Cookbook

By: Mike Coutermarsh

Overview of this book

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 (17 chapters)
Heroku Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Introduction


With Heroku Postgres, most of the pain of administering a database has been automated, giving us more time to focus on building and growing our applications. Security, health checks, scaling, backup, and recovery have all been simplified for us.

Your database is one of the most crucial pieces of your application's infrastructure. Its performance and security are of top priority when running a production-level application. In this chapter, you will be introduced to using Postgres the Heroku way. You'll start by learning how to select the correct database plan for your application. Once you have your database, you'll learn how to administer it, manage backups, and monitor performance, all via the Heroku CLI.