Table of Contents

Preface;
So, What Is Heroku?;
Who This Book Is For;
The History of Heroku;
The Heroku Culture;
Why Would I Want to Learn More About Heroku?;
Conventions Used in This Book;
Safari® Books Online;
How to Contact Us;
From the Authors: Neil Middleton;
From the Authors: Richard Schneeman;
Disclaimer;
Chapter 1: Getting Started with Heroku;
1.1 The Dawn of Virtual Servers;
1.2 Enter the Cloud;
1.3 You New Around Here?;
1.4 Quick Start;
Chapter 2: How Heroku Works;
2.1 What Is a Dyno?;
2.2 HTTP Routing;
2.3 The Dyno Manager and Dynos;
2.4 Other Services;
Chapter 3: Understanding Performance and Scale;
3.1 Horizontal Scaling and You;
3.2 Speeding Up Your App;
3.3 Explaining Postgres Performance;
3.4 Caching Expensive Queries;
3.5 Back that Task Up;
3.6 Full-Text Search Apps;
3.7 Performance Testing;
Chapter 4: Heroku Regions;
4.1 Multiregion or Single?;
4.2 The Heroku Way;
4.3 Constraints;
Chapter 5: Heroku PostgreSQL;
5.1 Why PostgreSQL?;
5.2 Choosing the Right Plan;
5.3 Getting Started;
5.4 Importing and Exporting Data;
5.5 PGBackups;
5.6 Data Clips;
5.7 Followers;
5.8 Forking;
5.9 Other Features;
Chapter 6: Deployment;
6.1 Timeliness;
6.2 Backing Out;
6.3 Testing;
6.4 How to Deploy, and Deploy Well;
6.5 Teams;
6.6 DNS;
Chapter 7: When It Goes Wrong;
7.1 Dev Center;
7.2 Heroku Support;
7.3 Deploy Debugging;
7.4 Runtime Error Detection and Debugging;
7.5 Runtime Error Debugging;
Chapter 8: Buildpacks;
8.1 Before Buildpacks;
8.2 Introducing the Buildpack;
8.3 Release;
8.4 Profile.d Scripts;
8.5 Leveraging Multiple Buildpacks;
8.6 Quick and Dirty Binaries in Your App;
8.7 The Buildpack Recap;
Colophon;