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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 …

When you sign into Heroku from your browser, you’re in the Heroku Dashboard . Dashboard is a personalized, interactive command center for all of your apps on Heroku. It provides simple visibility and management for app status, activity, resources, add-ons, collaborators, and other critical aspects of your app. You can also use it to manage all information about your Heroku account – from SSH keys to past invoices. In this post, we take a quick tour through Dashboard and some of its recent new features, including production check and notifications.

Everything About Your Apps

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Heroku Fork and the heroku sharing command have been deprecated. For more information on releases and rollbacks, make sure to check out the Dev Center .

Heroku tools let you create robust, healthy workflows for your apps, from development to production to ongoing delivery. Add other developers to your app with heroku sharing , create homogeneous staging and production apps with heroku fork , and quickly deploy directly from staging to production with pipelines .

Deploying quickly and often is awesome, but with multiple developers and multiple deployments each day, how do you…

In May, we launched the beta Heroku Platform API – making it possible to automate, extend and combine the Heroku platform with other services in a programmatic, self-service way. As of today, OAuth 2.0 support for the Platform API is available in public beta.

With OAuth support, developers building integrations and services that use the Heroku API can provide a much better experience to their users. Instead of requesting full access to user accounts, access requests can be scoped to just the information and control a service needs. Instead of using one API key for all third-party services,…

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…