On July 31st, our customer advocate team presented the second webcast in a two-part series on production apps on Heroku. In case you missed it, the recording and slides are below. This second session is designed for an audience familiar with Heroku basics and covers:
- Using a CDN to increase app performance
- How to manage the asset pipeline
- Using heroku-pg-extras to gain visibility into database performance
- How to manage database migrations
- How to use a database follower for transactional and analytics database reads
- How to set up caching with Heroku add-ons
- Useful labs features
Resources from the presentation:
- S3 Best Practices
- Postgres Performance
- Using PG Backups to Upgrade Heroku Postgres Databases
- Follower Database
- Octopus Gem
- Correctly Establishing Postgres Connections in Forked Environments
- PGBouncer Buildpack
- Caching and Performance
- Runtime Metrics
- Dyno Queuing
- Logging
A summary of the first session in the series, Running Production Apps on Heroku, can be found here.