awesome-heroku

Heroku resources

A curated list of resources and guides for building and managing applications on the Heroku platform

A curated list of delightful Heroku Platform Resources

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Awesome Heroku / Analytics
Metabase — a beta of Metadata as an app that can be deployed directly to Heroku

Awesome Heroku / Architecture
Exploring Microservices Architecure on Heroku — explores why Heroku eliminates a lot of the tooling you need to worry about when working with microservices
Heroku and SOA — discusses why Heroku is perfectly suited to building a service-oriented architecture for your projects

Awesome Heroku / Blogs
Higher Order Heroku — a blog about developing on Heroku

Awesome Heroku / Deployment
Preboot — explains how to use the "Preboot" feature to enable zero-downtime deployments, which can be tricky to get right
Automating our Heroku deployments from Jenkins — explains how you'd go about automating certain parts of deployment like enabling maintenance mode, copying your database from production to staging, running migrations against staging, etc
How do you ignore files when deploying to Heroku? — the answer to a common question about like functionality

Awesome Heroku / Development
Managing Multiple Environments for an App — a good primer on how to think about managing the different pieces of each environment

Awesome Heroku / Domains
Configuring CloudFlare DNS for a Heroku app — a walkthrough of how to use CloudFlare as your DNS provider
Hosting multiple Heroku apps on a single domain — an article on how to share the same domain between multiple Heroku applications
How do you host multiple Heroku apps on a single domain? — a StackOverflow question with a few responses to a the common question of how to serve multiple Heroku apps from different paths instead of subdomains

Awesome Heroku / General
The Heroku Hacker's Guide — an ebook that covers a lot of the basics in maintaining and scaling a project on Heroku
Heroku Cookbook — step-by-step recipes to solve the challenges of administering and scaling a real-world production web application on Heroku

Awesome Heroku / Meta
The big kickoff — the first ever Heroku blog article
Heroku isn't for idiots — explains Heroku's advantages and why it's not just for side projects
My Heroku values — a great series of takeaways from when he left Heroku
Buildpack Adventure — a cool slideshow about Heroku's buildpacks, and what the open-source community is hacking together with them

Awesome Heroku / Postgres
Heroku Postgres — the landing page explaining with it is
heroku-buildpack-pgbouncer 339 3 months ago — a buildpack that allows for transaction pooling using and to avoid hitting connection limits

Awesome Heroku / Scaling
HireFire — a SaaS tool that automatically scales your Heroku dynos up and down as load requires

Awesome Heroku / Security
Set up CloudFlare's free SSL on Heroku — walks you through the exact steps to setting up free SSL via Cloudflare

Awesome Heroku / Toolbelt
Toolbelt Download — where to download the Heroku toolbelt
heroku-accounts 1,234 over 8 years ago — makes it easy to work with multiple accounts at once from the command line
heroku-pg-extras 1,338 4 months ago — a toolbelt plugin that adds extra useful plugins for working with Postgres. Things like analyzing cache hit rates, outlier queries, unused indexes, table sizes, etc

Awesome Heroku / Goodbye...
dokku — a self-hosted, docker-based, Heroku-compliant platform

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