Beyond Git Push Heroku: Battle Stories from Cloud Samurais – Oren Teich (Heroku), Morten Bagai (Heroku)
heroic had down time this morning, so we’ll talk about that for a bit then resume our normal schedule
use something similar to nagios
problem was occurring somewhere in http stack
form hypothesis & find a way to test it quickly and in a non-disruptive manner – don’t want to make the problem worse
disabled misbehaving systems – took them out of the cluster – didn’t turn off, wanted to diagnose

2 of the 3 cofounders here in room
Do one thing well – deploy a rails application onto the web
$git push heroku master
let developers use tools to deploy that they are already using
“No step 1″

heroku stacks – let’s you target a version of a vm & libraries that you want to target – linux version, ruby, etc

http://docs.heroku.com/rails3

http://www.scvngr.com

http://www.syphir.com

http://getcloudapp.com

pandastream – cloud based video encoding

Anything can be a cloud service as long as it’s deployed in the same infrastructure – memcached, monogohq, etc

Tags: heroku, railsconf