awesome-heroku

— a beta of Metadata as an app that can be deployed directly to Heroku

— explores why Heroku eliminates a lot of the tooling you need to worry about when working with microservices

— discusses why Heroku is perfectly suited to building a service-oriented architecture for your projects

— a blog about developing on Heroku

— explains how to use the "Preboot" feature to enable zero-downtime deployments, which can be tricky to get right

— 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

— the answer to a common question about like functionality

— a good primer on how to think about managing the different pieces of each environment

— a walkthrough of how to use CloudFlare as your DNS provider

— an article on how to share the same domain between multiple Heroku applications

— 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

— an ebook that covers a lot of the basics in maintaining and scaling a project on Heroku

— step-by-step recipes to solve the challenges of administering and scaling a real-world production web application on Heroku

— the first ever Heroku blog article

— explains Heroku's advantages and why it's not just for side projects

— a great series of takeaways from when he left Heroku

— a cool slideshow about Heroku's buildpacks, and what the open-source community is hacking together with them

— the landing page explaining with it is

heroku-buildpack-pgbouncer

— a buildpack that allows for transaction pooling using and to avoid hitting connection limits

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

— walks you through the exact steps to setting up free SSL via Cloudflare

— where to download the Heroku toolbelt

heroku-accounts

— makes it easy to work with multiple accounts at once from the command line

heroku-pg-extras

— 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

— a self-hosted, docker-based, Heroku-compliant platform