The Heroku Hacker's Guide - The ultimate guide to deploying your web apps on Heroku.

The ultimate guide to deploying your web apps on Heroku.

Heroku's platform makes deploying, scaling, monitoring, and maintaining your web applications simple, cost effective, and even enjoyable.

The Heroku Hacker's Guide is a practical guide, explaining why you should be using Heroku, how to use Heroku, and all the best practices you need to know to start building successful Heroku applications.

If you're serious about building and deploying web applications on the best platform available, this book is for you.

Go forth, and hack!

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This is the best documentation I've ever seen for building apps on Heroku.

~ Kenneth Reitz, Heroku Python Overlord

A must have book for going from 0 to expert with Heroku.

~ Mahdi Yusuf, Founder of Pycoder's Weekly

Wish I had this book back when I was learning and trying to navigate the Heroku admin system. It's like having a Heroku guru at your side, walking you through all the secrets that the docs don't tell you."

~ Audrey Roy, Co-founder Cartwheel Web

If anyone knows how to deploy web apps on Heroku, it's Randall Degges.

~ Daniel Greenfeld, Co-founder Cartwheel Web

I can be lazy when it comes to searching web documentation. HHG is awesome as it combines the important stuff I need to know in one place.

~ Graham Dumpleton, Apache/mod_wsgi Author

HHG is the perfect guide to Heroku, showing you how to deploy code the right way, and all the best practices this entails.

~ Andrew Austin, Django Developer

Scale Your Apps

Learn how to instantly scale your applications to support millions of users through the use of Heroku's dynos and addons.

Monitor Your Apps

Use New Relic to monitor your applications, find bottlenecks, fix problems, and increase insight.

Effectively Collaborate

Learn how to successfully work with other developers on your Heroku applications, manage multiple accounts, and more.

Use PostgreSQL

Learn to use, scale, backup, restore, and fully understand Heroku's incredibly popular PostgreSQL service.

Use the Force

Good hackers love to write good code. Learn all the best practices you need to write simple and elegant web services on Heroku.

Manage Releases

Having issues with a recent deploy? Learn to instantly rollback your application to previous releases while maintaining full confidence using Heroku's release system.

Other Stuff

Can't afford the book? Don't sweat it! I'd be more than happy to give you a free copy. Just send me an email asking for a copy and I'll make sure you get one. Money should never be a prohibiting factor in education.

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