Hackbright Tech Talk @ Heroku

Heroku was fortunate enough to host Hackbright for lunch and a day of deploying their first apps to the web. Here's our slides from the day.

Transcript

1. Hackbright @ Heroku Oct 22, 2013
2. Hi! I’m Dominic (I make web apps)
3. What is Heroku?
4. “Cloud application platform” “Forget servers.” “Deploy apps, the right way”
5. We run your code FOR YOU
6. How does your app work today?
8. All your data begins and ends its life on your computer 100% local
9. bash environment python virtualenv [your code] [your database]
10. Why isn’t this great?
11. Sharing • No outside visitors • localhost goes away
12. Scaling • Laptop is just 1 computer
13. Stability • Software crashes • Laptop is only copy of data
14. The Heroku way
15. Many identical copies (dynos)
16. Small sharp tools
17. environment python your app environment python your app postgres your data add-on your data
18. Use existing tools
19. How to use it
20. heroku create $ Creating hacking-brightly-42... done
21. git push heroku master $ -----> Launching... done, v3 http://hacking- brightly-42.herokuapp.com deployed to Heroku
22. What do you have to do?
23. Not much! (Okay, maybe 3 things)
24. Configuration create_engine(sqlite:///ratings.db) create_engine(os.environ['ENGINE_URL]))
25. Configuration ENGINE_URL=sqlite:///ratings.db ADMIN_PASSWORD=mypassword ... .env
26. Procfile web: gunicorn app:app worker: bin/work
27. Procfile foreman start $ 11:33:41 web.1 | started with pid 87156 11:33:41 worker.1 | started with pid 87157 ...
28. Database sqlite:///ratings.db postgres://localhost/ratings
29. And now...
30. Let’s hack.
31. 1. toolbelt.heroku.com 3. git push heroku master 2. heroku create 0. Sign up at www.heroku.com