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  1. From Heroku to Kubernetes Platform: a Flightdeck launch story

    Complexity of cloud infrastructure got you down? Heroku not cutting it for SOC2 compliance? Here’s how our Flightdeck platform can rapidly get you up and running on a production-ready Kubernetes cluster complete with autoscaling, security best practices, and minimal headaches.

    Christopher Kuttruff
    April 3, 2024
    • Flightdeck
    • Kubernetes
    • Terraform
    • AWS
    • Heroku
    • Infrastructure
  2. This week in #dev (Jul 14, 2023)

    Lots of Active Record goodies, VS Code features, and a Heroku CLI extension.

    thoughtbot
    July 25, 2023
    • This Week In Dev
    • Rails
    • Vs Code
    • Security
    • Heroku
  3. Graceful Switching of Worker Processes

    How to avoid lost work from your job queues and worker processes.

    Oli Peate
    November 28, 2017
    • Web
    • Heroku
    • Ruby
  4. Lean & Maintainable Reports with Heroku Dataclips

    Write testable reports in SQL that don’t erode over time.

    Oli Peate
    August 21, 2017
    • Data
    • Heroku
    • Rails
    • Web
  5. How To Reduce a Large Heroku Slug Size

    How to fix the “Compiled slug size: 500.6M is too large (max is 500M)” error when trying to deploy your Heroku app.

    Dan Croak
    June 13, 2016
    • Heroku
    • Ruby
    • Web
  6. Running Acceptance with Heroku Review Apps

    Generate staging environments automatically for each pull request.

    Tute Costa
    April 22, 2016
    • Heroku
    • Productivity
  7. Set up CloudFlare's free SSL on Heroku

    Make a connection between your users and Heroku safer with a free certificate from CloudFlare.

    Prem Sichanugrist
    January 6, 2015
    • Web
    • DNS
    • Heroku
    • Rails
    • SSL
  8. How to Splunk with Heroku

    Splunk is company that offers logging services. They went public last year,...

    Dan Croak
    February 23, 2013
    • Web
    • Rails
    • Heroku
  9. Multiple Environments on Heroku

    Agile development methodologies promote quick and iterative product releases....

    Harlow Ward
    April 3, 2012
    • Web
    • Rails
    • Heroku
  10. How To Back Up A Heroku Production Database To Staging

    Backup a production Heroku Postgres database to a staging environment.

    Dan Croak
    August 18, 2011
    • Web
    • Heroku
    • PostgreSQL
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