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Running Production Applications on Heroku
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.
What you'll learn
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.
Table of contents
- Overview | 4m 59s
- Structuring Systems as Applications and Processes | 2m 27s
- Ensure Process Statelessness | 3m 17s
- Demo: Setting Up a Background Job Queue | 3m 13s
- Managing Environment Config and Dependencies | 3m 7s
- Handling Streaming Logs | 2m 1s
- Demo: Capturing Logs via Add-On and Custom Drain | 2m 19s
- Staying within Platform Limits | 2m 46s
- Summary | 1m 25s
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.