Abe Pursell

Editor's Note : This is a guest post from Jonathan Cipriano , creative developer based in San Francisco currently working as a Creative Research & Development Manager at AKQA.

A few weeks back, the Make-a-Wish Foundation made a 5-year old cancer survivor named Miles dream come true by helping him play out a Batman-style adventure in San Francisco . The city was morphed into Gotham for a day with the help of 12,000 volunteers. A rescue mission turned the pint-sized crusader into a social media sensation. Miles became Batkid for a day.

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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

Optimizing production apps on heroku 7.31.13 from …

On June 27th, our customer advocate team presented the first webcast in a two-part series on running production apps on Heroku. In case you missed it, the recording and slides are below. This first session is designed for an audience familiar with Heroku basics and covers:

Production app setup and expectations
App production checklist
Using Unicorn to increase app performance
Using 2X dynos to increase app performance
How to configure timeouts to ensure app stability
Using log-runtime-metrics for added visibility

Running Production Apps on Heroku 6.27.13 from Abe Pursell

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