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Is there any type of preview or table of contents available? It would be nice to get a better feel for the contents and style of the book.

by ActVen 14y ago

rdegges 14y ago
Hi there, I'm the book's author. I don't have any preview available, but here's the table of contents: Preface - Why Heroku? - Simplicity - Age - Popularity - Polyglot - Solid - Best Practices Getting Started with Heroku - Create an Account - Install the Toolbelt - Install heroku-accounts - Project Prerequisites - Create an Application - Follow the Required Quickstart Guide - Push Your Code - Check it Out Dynosaurs - What Are Dynos? - Understanding Dynos - Dynos Run Services - One Procfile to Rule Them All - Testing Your Procfile - Scaling Up and Scaling Down Dynos - Handling Failure - Calculating Dyno Costs The Environment - Best Practices and You - The Config Command - Benefits Take the Pain Away (with Addons) - What are Addons? - How do Addons Work? - The Addon Catalogue - Adding, Removing, Upgrading, and Downgrading Addons - Addon Cost PostgreSQL Patterns - Why Heroku PostgreSQL? - Bootstrapping a Database - Connecting to Your Database - Destroying a Database - Creating Read Slaves - Creating a Duplicate Database - Promoting a Slave Database to a Master Database - View Slow Queries - Backing Up Your Database - Downloading Your Backups - Restoring From a Backup - Final Thoughts Caching with Memcached - Why Cache? - Using Memcached - Memcached on Heroku Scheduling Tasks with Cron - The Scheduler - Debugging - Cost Logging - Log Types - Viewing Logs - Viewing Select Logs - When to Check Your Logs - Log Storage Options Monitoring with New Relic - Why New Relic? - Installing New Relic - The Overview - A Visual Map of Your Application - Web Transactions - Database Monitoring - External Services - Dyno Monitoring - Background Tasks - Final Thoughts Talking to the World - Using Custom Domains - Updating Your DNS - Encrypt All the Things! (with SSL) Managing Releases - Heroku’s Model - Viewing Your Releases - Rolling Back - Final Thoughts Working with Others - Who is the Application Owner? - Sharing Access - Sharing Permissions - Managing Collaborators - Transferring Ownership Do Great Things - Build Services, Not Apps - Building Service Oriented Applications - Heroku and Services - Be Dynamic - Final Thoughts References and Further Reading Special Thanks
- federicoweber 14y ago
  A sample chapter would be great. Lacking it I've just bought it for $5. I will buy it again after reading if I liked it.
k33l0r 14y ago
I agree, an excerpt or two would be a great help deciding whether the book is for me (this is something that I think PragProg does well).
- rdegges 14y ago
  Hey, if you'd like a preview I'd be happy to email you a free copy (don't have any preview stuff setup yet). If you email me (rdegges@gmail.com) I'd love to send you a copy :)

Is there any type of preview or table of contents available? It would be nice to get a better feel for the contents and style of the book.

by ActVen 14y ago

Is there any type of preview or table of contents available? It would be nice to get a better feel for the contents and style of the book.

rdegges 14y ago

Hi there, I'm the book's author. I don't have any preview available, but here's the table of contents: Preface - Why Heroku? - Simplicity - Age - Popularity - Polyglot - Solid - Best Practices Getting Started with Heroku - Create an Account - Install the Toolbelt - Install heroku-accounts - Project Prerequisites - Create an Application - Follow the Required Quickstart Guide - Push Your Code - Check it Out Dynosaurs - What Are Dynos? - Understanding Dynos - Dynos Run Services - One Procfile to Rule Them All - Testing Your Procfile - Scaling Up and Scaling Down Dynos - Handling Failure - Calculating Dyno Costs The Environment - Best Practices and You - The Config Command - Benefits Take the Pain Away (with Addons) - What are Addons? - How do Addons Work? - The Addon Catalogue - Adding, Removing, Upgrading, and Downgrading Addons - Addon Cost PostgreSQL Patterns - Why Heroku PostgreSQL? - Bootstrapping a Database - Connecting to Your Database - Destroying a Database - Creating Read Slaves - Creating a Duplicate Database - Promoting a Slave Database to a Master Database - View Slow Queries - Backing Up Your Database - Downloading Your Backups - Restoring From a Backup - Final Thoughts Caching with Memcached - Why Cache? - Using Memcached - Memcached on Heroku Scheduling Tasks with Cron - The Scheduler - Debugging - Cost Logging - Log Types - Viewing Logs - Viewing Select Logs - When to Check Your Logs - Log Storage Options Monitoring with New Relic - Why New Relic? - Installing New Relic - The Overview - A Visual Map of Your Application - Web Transactions - Database Monitoring - External Services - Dyno Monitoring - Background Tasks - Final Thoughts Talking to the World - Using Custom Domains - Updating Your DNS - Encrypt All the Things! (with SSL) Managing Releases - Heroku’s Model - Viewing Your Releases - Rolling Back - Final Thoughts Working with Others - Who is the Application Owner? - Sharing Access - Sharing Permissions - Managing Collaborators - Transferring Ownership Do Great Things - Build Services, Not Apps - Building Service Oriented Applications - Heroku and Services - Be Dynamic - Final Thoughts References and Further Reading Special Thanks

federicoweber 14y ago
A sample chapter would be great. Lacking it I've just bought it for $5. I will buy it again after reading if I liked it.

k33l0r 14y ago

I agree, an excerpt or two would be a great help deciding whether the book is for me (this is something that I think PragProg does well).

rdegges 14y ago
Hey, if you'd like a preview I'd be happy to email you a free copy (don't have any preview stuff setup yet). If you email me (rdegges@gmail.com) I'd love to send you a copy :)