Heroku Superpowers

Tips & Tricks for Boosting Your Team's Productivity

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1. Heroku Superpowers Tips & Tricks for Boosting Your Team's Productivity coutermarsh.mike@gmail.com, @mscccc ​Mike Coutermarsh, Product Hunt
2. Who am I? ​Twitter: @mscccc ​Email: coutermarsh.mike@gmail.com ​Website: mscccc.io ​Book: Heroku Cookbook ​Mike Coutermarsh
3. Heroku ​Deploy, manage and scale your web applications • Developer happiness – makes operations “easy” ​Saves us “one engineer” • More expensive than using AWS directly – but time savings are huge • Spend our time on building features rather than configuring servers ​Polyglot - works with almost any stack • Ruby, Node, Java, Elixir, Crystal, PHP, Go ​PaaS for Web Applications
4. Product Hunt ​High Traffic Web Application + API • React.js, Ruby, Rails, Node • 14 Heroku Applications • API for our iPhone app ​Distributed Team • 9 engineers and designers • Working across 5 different time zones ​The best place to find your next favorite thing
5. Superpower #1 ​Autoscaling ​Automatic Performance Monitoring Superpower #2 Superpower #3 ​Embrace The CLI Heroku Superpowers
6. Embrace the CLI ​Command Line Interface
7. Using the Dashboard? Faster with the CLI
8. Access -> Add Collaborator Login Navigate to App ​via the Dashboard Adding a Collaborator
9. ​via the CLI Adding a Collaborator $ heroku access:add friend@example.com
10. How will I ever Remember That?
11. Don’t memorize Learn the pattern
12. ​Embrace the CLI Superpower #1 $ heroku command:command OPTION
13. ​Embrace the CLI Superpower #1 $ heroku command:command OPTION $ heroku access:add friend@example.com
14. Use the Built in documentation
15. ​Embrace the CLI Superpower #1 $ heroku help
16. ​Embrace the CLI Superpower #1 $ heroku help
17. ​Embrace the CLI Superpower #1 $ heroku help command
18. ​Embrace the CLI Superpower #1 $ heroku help access
19. ​Embrace the CLI Superpower #1 $ heroku help access
20. My favorite CLI time saving trick
21. ​Embrace the CLI Superpower #1 $ heroku addons:open newrelic
22. ​Embrace the CLI Superpower #1 $ heroku addons:open librato
23. Don’t memorize Learn the pattern $ heroku help command
24. Autoscaling ​How to handle spikes in traffic
25. If a robot can do it A robot should do it Efficient engineering teams:
26. Superpower #2 ​Minimum dynos • Recommendation: at least 2 ​Maximum dynos • Be careful here – be aware of database connection limits ​95p request time • Heroku gives a suggestion on how to set this ​Autoscaling
27. ​Autoscaling Superpower #2
28. Superpower #2 ​Currently limited to performance or private dynos • Alternative: HireFire ​It’s not magic • Does not solve all your scaling problems • Scaling out has limits – read the documentation! • Sudden spikes (TV commercial) ​Adjust settings and monitor ​Autoscaling
29. Automatic Performance Monitoring ​Setup Alerts with Librato
30. Automate your monitoring
31. ​Automatic Performance Monitoring Superpower #3
32. ​Automatic Performance Monitoring Superpower #3
33. Superpower #3 ​Database connections • Over 300 connections used ​Dyno free memory • > 80% of memory used ​Dyno CPU load • Above 50% ​Web response times • Above 1000ms ​Automatic Performance Monitoring
34. Superpower #1 ​Autoscaling ​Automatic Performance Monitoring Superpower #2 Superpower #3 ​Embrace The CLI Heroku Superpowers
35. Stay in touch! ​Slides: https://mscccc.io/heroku-superpowers ​Twitter: @mscccc ​Email: coutermarsh.mike@gmail.com ​Website: mscccc.io