
A curated list of helpful Heroku resources.
- Analytics
- Architecture
- Blogs
- Deployment
- Development
- Domains
- Meta
- Postgres
- Scaling
- Security
- Toolbelt
- Goodbye...
Analytics
Analytics for Heroku...
toolMetabase — a beta of Metadata as an app that can be deployed directly to Heroku.
Architecture
How to architect your Heroku projects...
articleExploring Microservices Architecure on Heroku — explores why Heroku eliminates a lot of the tooling you need to worry about when working with microservices.articleHeroku and SOA — discusses why Heroku is perfectly suited to building a service-oriented architecture for your projects.articleSplit 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...
blogHeroku Blog — the official Heroku blog.
Deployment
Resources that help with deploying on Heroku...
officialPreboot — explains how to use the "Preboot" feature to enable zero-downtime deployments, which can be tricky to get right.articleAutomating 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.questionHow do you ignore files when deploying to Heroku? — the answer to a common question about.gitignorelike functionality.articleSix Tips for Mastering your Procfile — improvements for how you run your Heroku processes.articleDeploying Django to Heroku With Docker — looks at how to deploy a Django app to Heroku with Docker via the Heroku Container Runtime
Development
officialManaging 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...
articleConfiguring CloudFlare DNS for a Heroku app — a walkthrough of how to use CloudFlare as your DNS provider.articleHosting multiple Heroku apps on a single domain — an article on how to share the same domain between multiple Heroku applications.questionHow 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...
bookThe Heroku Hacker's Guide — an ebook that covers a lot of the basics in maintaining and scaling a project on Heroku.bookHeroku 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...
officialThe big kickoff — the first ever Heroku blog article.articleHeroku isn't for idiots — explains Heroku's advantages and why it's not just for side projects.