Heroku Cloud Application Development

About This Book

• Understand the concepts of the Heroku platform: how it works, the application development stack, and security features
• Learn how to build, deploy, and troubleshoot a cloud application in the most popular programming languages easily and quickly using Heroku
• Leverage the book's practical examples to build your own "real" Heroku cloud applications in no time

Who This Book Is For

This book is intended for those who want to learn Heroku the right way. Perhaps you are new to Heroku or are someone who has heard about Heroku but have not built anything significant with it. You should have knowledge or familiarity with cloud computing and basic knowledge of database and network deployment.

What You Will Learn

• Recognize the components of the Heroku infrastructure and how they work together to give a seamless platform experience
• Write an application using any supported language (Ruby, Java, PHP, Python, and more) and deploy it easily and instantly
• Run and scale your cloud application on demand using a variety of useful Heroku commands
• Secure and debug your cloud application faster using popular techniques and tools
• Reuse the provided samples to build agile and robust applications
• Extend your application features by using simple plugins and add-ons
• Manage all your applications intuitively using the one-stop Heroku dashboard

In Detail

Heroku is one of the leading cloud platforms supported by several programming languages. It lets you develop applications without worrying about the infrastructure. You can instantly build, deploy, and troubleshoot the most advanced and robust cloud applications using a rich set of available tools. Just write your application and leave the rest to Heroku. Heroku helps you build the most feature-rich web applications using add-ons and multiple data sources that can be easily configured.

This book is about Heroku, but more importantly, it is about the ease with which a developer with limited availability or knowledge of deployment infrastructure can run and manage a cloud app 24/7/365. It will show how Heroku is language independent and does not lock the user to a particular operating environment.