A curated list of helpful Heroku resources.

• Analytics
• Architecture
• Blogs
• Deployment
• Development
• Domains
• Meta
• Postgres
• Scaling
• Security
• Toolbelt
• Goodbye...

Analytics

Analytics for Heroku...

• tool Metabase — a beta of Metadata as an app that can be deployed directly to Heroku.

Architecture

How to architect your Heroku projects...

• article Exploring Microservices Architecure on Heroku — explores why Heroku eliminates a lot of the tooling you need to worry about when working with microservices.
• article Heroku and SOA — discusses why Heroku is perfectly suited to building a service-oriented architecture for your projects.
• article Split Frontend from Backend on Heroku with npm and NodeJS - hands-on guide to deploy a microservices web application in Heroku using npm and NodeJS.

Blogs

Blogs around the internet that often (or exclusively) write about Heroku...

• blog Heroku Blog — the official Heroku blog.

Deployment

Resources that help with deploying on Heroku...

• official Preboot — explains how to use the "Preboot" feature to enable zero-downtime deployments, which can be tricky to get right.
• article 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.
• question How do you ignore files when deploying to Heroku? — the answer to a common question about .gitignore like functionality.
• article Six Tips for Mastering your Procfile — improvements for how you run your Heroku processes.
• article Deploying Django to Heroku With Docker — looks at how to deploy a Django app to Heroku with Docker via the Heroku Container Runtime

Development

• official Managing Multiple Environments for an App — a good primer on how to think about managing the different pieces of each environment.

Domains

Tips for using custom domain names on Heroku...

• article Configuring CloudFlare DNS for a Heroku app — a walkthrough of how to use CloudFlare as your DNS provider.
• article Hosting multiple Heroku apps on a single domain — an article on how to share the same domain between multiple Heroku applications.
• question 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.

General

General resources that cover lots of different things about Heroku...

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

Meta

Information about the company itself...

• official The big kickoff — the first ever Heroku blog article.
• article Heroku isn't for idiots — explains Heroku's advantages and why it's not just for side projects.