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-- A curated list of delightful Heroku Resources

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A curated list of helpful Heroku resources.

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<img width="21" height="21" src="images/analytics.png" /> Analytics

Analytics for Heroku...

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

<img width="21" height="21" src="images/architecture.png" /> 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.

<img width="21" height="21" src="images/blogs.png" /> Blogs

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

• blog Higher Order Heroku — a blog about developing on Heroku.

<img width="21" height="21" src="images/deployment.png" /> 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.

<img width="21" height="21" src="images/development.png" /> Development

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

<img width="21" height="21" src="images/domains.png" /> 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.

<img width="21" height="21" src="images/general.png" /> 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.

<img width="21" height="21" src="images/meta.png" /> 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.
• article My Heroku values — a great series of takeaways from Brandur Leach when he left Heroku.
• talk Buildpack Adventure — a cool slideshow about Heroku's buildpacks, and what the open-source community is hacking together with them.

<img width="21" height="21" src="images/postgres.png" /> Postgres

Anything dealing with Heroku Postgres...

• official Heroku Postgres — the landing page explaining with it is.
• plugin heroku-buildpack-pgbouncer — a buildpack that allows for transaction pooling using stunnel and pgbouncer to avoid hitting connection limits.

<img width="21" height="21" src="images/redis.png" /> Redis

Anything dealing with Heroku Redis...

<img width="21" height="21" src="images/scaling.png" /> Scaling

Resources that help you scale your Heroku projects...

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

<img width="21" height="21" src="images/security.png" /> Security

How to secure you Heroku applications...

• article Set up CloudFlare's free SSL on Heroku — walks you through the exact steps to setting up free SSL via Cloudflare.

<img width="21" height="21" src="images/toolbelt.png" /> Toolbelt

Helpful resources for the Heroku Toolbelt...

• official Toolbelt Download — where to download the Heroku toolbelt.
• plugin heroku-accounts — makes it easy to work with multiple accounts at once from the command line.
• plugin 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.

<img width="21" height="21" src="images/goodbye.png" /> Goodbye...

Things to check out if you decide to migrate off of Heroku for some reason...

• tool dokku — a self-hosted, docker-based, Heroku-compliant platform.

<img width="21" height="21" src="images/license.png" /> License