Latest Posts
Using Heroku Preboot for Zero-Downtime Deploys
Are zero-downtime deploys worth the trade-offs? This post explores the real-world advantages and gotchas with Heroku Preboot.
Easy Deployment Using Heroku Pipelines
Learn how Heroku Pipelines will streamline your multi-environment (staging & production) deployment workflows.
Power tools for analyzing your Heroku logs
Extract fields and perform aggregations on your Heroku logs. All in real-time, with beautiful, human-readable output.
Introducing Rails Autoscale Free
Rails Autoscale now has a free plan on Heroku. It's the safety net you need for your web and worker dynos.
Launch: Scheduled Autoscaling
You can now define custom weekly or daily schedules in Rails Autoscale!
Take Control of Your Autoscaling with Advanced Options
Sometimes basic controls are not enough. Discover how to tweak your autoscaling behavior with Rails Autoscale’s advanced options.
Launch: Autoscaling Sidekiq on Heroku
Autoscaling for worker dynos is live for all Rails Autoscale customers at no extra cost.
What I learned in a full day marketing-for-developers sprint
I spent a day with Justin Jackson, diving deep into marketing for my Heroku add-on, Rails Autoscale.
Start with One Customer
I’ve had many side projects over the years. An app to find a local photographer, an app for writers, an app for printing photos… the list goes on and on. Unfortunately, none of these side projects ever even made it off the ground. 😳 Sound familiar?
Six Tips for Mastering your Procfile
At it simplest, the Procfile is where you declare the one or more processes to be run for your app to function. Heroku’s docs do a great job of explaining the Procfile format, so this post will focus on a bit more advanced usage.