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Humans, in their quest for knowledge, have always wanted to know how things work .

We sit in our bedrooms, kitchens and garages pulling things apart with eager hands, examining the bits with a glimmer in our eye as our fingers turn them around and around, wondering what they do, how they do what they do–hoping that everything still works without that pretty residual part that no longer seems to fit.

Introducing How Heroku Works

How Heroku Works follows this well trodden path. It dissects the platform, laying its innards bare upon…

Logs tell the story of your app – a continuous, living stream of events, changes and behaviors. Logs let you rapidly identify and act on critical events, debug issues in your code, and analyze trends to make better decisions over time.

But log management is increasingly complex. As apps scale across distributed infrastructure, many independent processes must be tracked and made sense of. Numerous components and backing services each produce their own log streams. Multiple developers may be collaborating on your app, and multiple services must consume its logs. And logs must be useful not only to machines…

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

Resources from the…

Editor's Note: The version of Pipelines described in this blog post has been deprecated and replaced by a new non-labs implementation . Features added through Heroku Labs are experimental and may change or be removed without notice.

heroku fork lets you create unique, running instances of existing applications in a single command , making it fast and simple to set up homogenous development, staging and production environments. But have you ever wished you could deploy directly from staging to a production app after testing and validation?

Heroku pipelines , now an experimental feature available…

Heroku Add-ons are services exposed through the Heroku platform. They are managed by experts, provisioned and scaled in a single command, and consumed by your application as loosely coupled components. This post provides an overview of Add-ons for logging, persistence, caching and monitoring in production apps.

Logging

heroku addons:add papertrail

Logs provide the foundation for trend analysis, error inspection, performance tuning and other processes critical for running production apps. Heroku routes and collates real-time logs from each part of your app, including running processes, system components, API events… even Add-ons themselves. Heroku presents app…

Heroku Fork has been deprecated. See the GitHub repo for the Fork CLI plugin for details.

An application is more than source code – it’s executables, generated assets, runtime environments, dependencies, configuration, running processes, backing services and more. What if you could fork your entire app, not just your code?

heroku fork lets you create unique, running instances of existing applications right from the command line. These instances are live and available on Heroku immediately so you can change, scale and share them however you want.

How It Works…