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Running Production Applications on Heroku

By Alex Korban
Heroku is a powerful platform-as-a-service for scalable applications and data storage. This course will teach you how to architect, deploy and run secure production applications on Heroku.
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Course info
Level
Intermediate
Updated
Dec 18, 2020
Duration
1h 58m
Table of contents
Course Overview
Course Overview 2m
Architecting Applications for Heroku
Overview 5m Structuring Systems as Applications and Processes 2m Ensure Process Statelessness 3m Demo: Setting Up a Background Job Queue 3m Managing Environment Config and Dependencies 3m Handling Streaming Logs 2m Demo: Capturing Logs via Add-On and Custom Drain 2m Staying within Platform Limits 3m Summary 1m
Handling Various Deployment Scenarios
Overview 1m Understanding Releases 1m Configuring Staging and Production Environments 3m Setting up Deployment Pipelines 5m Running Pre-release Tasks with Release Phase 5m Achieving Zero-downtime Deployment with Dyno Preboot 2m Demo: Setting up the GitHub Integration and Performing Deploys 3m Demo: Setting up the Slack Integration and Performing Deploys 6m Demo: Deploying an Application in a Docker Container 6m Demo: Using the Manifest File to Build and Deploy Docker Containers 7m Working with Buildpacks 4m Summary 1m
Setting up and Running a Production System
Overview 1m Adding Custom Domains 5m Dyno Redundancy and Maintenance Mode 3m Performing One-off Tasks 4m Setting up Periodic Tasks 6m Managing Files and Dependencies 7m Working with Heroku Stacks 3m Summary 1m
Securing Applications and Data Stores
Overview 1m Understanding Platform Security Features 2m Setting up a Custom Domain with TLS 3m Managing PostgreSQL Credentials 5m Securing Access to Redis 1m Using WebSockets Securely 2m Summary 1m
Description
Course info
Level
Intermediate
Updated
Dec 18, 2020
Duration
1h 58m
Description

Running a production application has many facets, from deployment setup to security. In this course, Running Production Applications on Heroku, you’ll learn to architect, deploy and run production applications on Heroku, while taking security into account. First, you’ll explore how to architect applications to leverage the strengths of the Heroku platform. Next, you’ll discover how to handle various deployment pathways and set up your applications for a production environment. Finally, you’ll learn how to set up applications and data stores on Heroku to be secure. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of the Heroku platform needed to handle a variety of production scenarios.

About the author
Alex Korban
About the author

Alex Korban is an author and consultant with an interest in functional programming, databases and geospatial applications. He co-founded a company to visualize geospatial data and wrote several books.

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Section Introduction Transcripts
Section Introduction Transcripts

Course Overview
Hi everyone, my name is Alex Korban, and welcome to my course, Running Production Applications on Heroku. I'm a software developer and author, and I started using Heroku in 2010. In the years since, it's grown to be a comprehensive solution for running web applications. The Heroku platform provides a wide range of features that make developers' lives easier, and contribute to reliability, scalability, and security of applications running on the platform. In this course, my goal is to show you how you can handle a variety of tasks related to running a production application on Heroku. Some of the major topics that we will cover include architectural considerations for an application that is going to be run on Heroku; managing application deployment with the help of a range of tools and integrations available; dealing with ancillary tasks, from setting up a custom domain to periodic jobs; and finally, security features available on the platform, and using them to ensure that your application is secure. By the end of this course, you will be equipped to architect, deploy, and run real‑world production applications on Heroku. Before beginning this course, you should be familiar with the basics of the platform, for example, by going through the Heroku: Getting Started course. I hope you will join me on this journey to learn about the Heroku platform with the Running Production Applications on Heroku course at Pluralsight.

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