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title: Online Presentation With thoughtbot and Heroku
teaser:
tags: news,web
author: Dan Croak
published_on: 2013-04-17
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[Adarsh][1], [Alex][2], and [I][3] are giving a free online presentation with
[Abe][4] from Heroku about how their platform fits into our process. Over 1,400
people have registered so far! The details:

* Tomorrow, April 17
* Once at 7:00am PST (2:00pm GMT / 7:30pm IST)
* A second time at 10:00am PST (5:00pm GMT / 10:30pm IST)

[![Heroku event][6]][5]

[RSVP here][5].

We will be live coding(!), making a single change to a live web application
hosted on Heroku within the context of a common process for us:

* Campfire for real-time communication and alerts.
* [Trello for managing the task][10] and tracking discussion.
* Our [git protocol][9].
* GitHub pull request-based [code review][8].
* Shortcuts from [thoughtbot/dotfiles][7].
* Staging and production environments on Heroku.

We will also show a few other goodies:

* Heroku config variables.
* [Heroku addons][16].
* [Heroku 2x dynos][17].
* Using [Apache Bench][11] for simple load and memory tests.
* Each dyno handling about ~1,000 requests per minute for a static site.
* [Unicorn][13], [Sinatra][14], and [Ruby 2.0's Copy-On-Write][15] garbage collection.
* Using [log2viz][12] for performance and memory visibility.

We will share an open source web application and a read-only Trello board
during the presentation. There will be a question-and-answer session at the
end.

Hope to see you online! [RSVP here][5].

UPDATE: Heroku has posted [a recording to YouTube][18].

[1]: https://twitter.com/adarshp
[2]: https://twitter.com/alexbaldwin
[3]: https://twitter.com/croaky
[4]: https://twitter.com/AbePursell
[5]: http://buff.ly/16EVPfn
[6]: http://media.tumblr.com/61d93c192999d9a113f6e219ff4240b9/tumblr_inline_mkv167JX0x1qz4rgp.png
[7]: https://github.com/thoughtbot/dotfiles
[8]: https://github.com/thoughtbot/guides/tree/master/code-review
[9]: https://github.com/thoughtbot/guides/tree/master/protocol
[10]: https://github.com/thoughtbot/guides/tree/2cf812d/product-management/trello
[11]: https://thoughtbot.com/blog/post/8392002973/7-minute-ab-impatient-mans-load-tests-for-a-heroku
[12]: https://blog.heroku.com/archives/2013/3/19/log2viz
[13]: https://github.com/defunkt/unicorn
[14]: http://www.sinatrarb.com
[15]: http://patshaughnessy.net/2012/3/23/why-you-should-be-excited-about-garbage-collection-in-ruby-2-0
[16]: http://addons.heroku.com
[17]: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/dyno-size
[18]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1oNCb-S_aM