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An introduction to Heroku platform as a service for developers at Salesforce Dreamforce conference 2013. The presentation discusses how Heroku fits into the Salesforce platform and relates it to development with Force.com. The presentation also shows how easy it is to get your custom application deployed on Heroku, leading to an iterative and continuous deployment approach to app development.
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Introduction to HerokuIntroduction to HerokuScale your Custom & Customer facing apps
John Stevenson
Developer Evangelist
Salesforce
@jr0cket
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Heroku is…
An elastic,
multi-language,
multi-framework,
Platform as a Service
Heroku as part of the Salesforce Platform
The Heroku Story
Founded in 2007 Enabling startups become successful
A focus on high quality platform cloud service for developers
Acquired by Salesforce in 2010 Supporting innovation in the enterprise
Extending possibilities within the Salesforce platform
Comparing Force.com & HerokuForce.com
- An instantly available app
- Configurable with Clicks,
extend with Apex, integration
with API’s
-Leveraging Database.com
All running in the Cloud
Heroku
- Build your custom apps &
deploy them using Git
- Create apps with a range of
languages & databases
All running in the Cloud
Different responsibilities, different constraints
Force.com
Managed application-Force.com updates 3 times per
year
Work within Governor
limits
Heroku
Manage your choice of
application framework - Rails, Nodejs, Spring, etc
Elastic scalability- get all the resources you want,
only when you want them
How Heroku is used
High-volume sites / customer facing apps Campaigns / Marketing sites
Mobile & API services
Online services (flat hunting, digital galleries, file sharing, dating,
education, etc)
Supplementing physical events – Sports events, Marathon races, etc.
success.heroku.com
Case Study: Level Up – Mobile payment processing
Enabling people to buy essentials during Hurricane Sandy Deploy the app quickly with zero down-time
Scale to manage thousands of payment partners
Supporting over 1 million customers processing over 3 million orders
success.heroku.com/levelup
Feeding Data into your Salesforce Org
Create a single view of the business in Salesforce Eg. Match campaigns and marketing data to new & existing customers
in your org
Process high volues of data in different ways on Heroku and
transalte into existing data in your Org Feed in data to your Org at a sustainable rate
www.heroku.com/1
Building apps with Heroku & Force.com
Via Salesforce Canvas Embed services and functionality not suited to force.com into your org.
Interact using JavaScript remoting
Via Salesforce REST & SOAP APIs Pull & Push data between Force.com & Heroku applications
Using your Salesforce Org as the canonical view of information
Heroku in more detail
Heroku first class languages
Ruby, Node (JavaScript), Python & Java
Heroku gives you…
Developer driven deploymentDeploy using Git version control, the most popular tool for
developers
git push heroku master
Heroku gives you…
Instant & continuous deploymentDeploy changes at the speed of business change
Write your application code
Version your code locally
Deploy your codeon Heroku
Heroku gives you…
Repeatable & traceable deploymentCode commits drive application releases
Easily manage versions across multiple environments (dev, test,
staging, production)
Heroku gives you…
Activity on the Heroku Dashboard
Heroku gives you…
Dyno – an abstraction over
infrastructureA simplified definition of resources
Runs one or more application processes
Requires no patching or other maintenance a typical (virtual)
server would need
Heroku For Developers
750 hours process time per month (31 days = 744 hours)
Note: A Dyno on the Dev plan will sleep after 1 hour of no activity
Heroku gives you…
Scale multiple processesweb and background processes can scale at different levels
Heroku gives you…
Elastic scaling of your applicationsInstantly deploy your app over multiple Dynos
Scale down during quite periods to save costs
Heroku gives you…
Customisable deploymentlarge number of programming languages through open source
“buildpacks”
- buildpacks are available on Github
Heroku gives you…
Operations as a service
24x7 platform monitoring
Automated patching
Automated dyno
management
Heroku gives you…
Heroku gives you…
Logplex - unified logging systemDiagnose problems fast with all relevant information
Heroku gives you…
Fast RollbacksRestore a previous version whilst you do root cause analysis
Heroku gives you…
Large collection
of addonsBuild your application faster
with on-demand services
Heroku Postgres – database as a service
Powerful data storage on demand
Irrespective of if you app is deployed on Heroku
Heroku Postgres – Database as a Service
Addon: New Relic – end 2 end analysis
Addon: HireFire – auto-scaling
Getting Started with HerokuGit Push Deploy
Setup your Heroku account
1) Create an account on Heroku
2) Download the Heroku Toolbelt
3) Create / Upload your public key
heroku login
Or check if you already have a key:
Whats in the Toolbelt?Heroku command line tools
create | logs | ps | releases |
run | addons | config | fork
A Git client
Foreman
run apps on your laptop as they would run on Heroku
5 steps to deploy your first app on Heroku
1) Create you app (using build tools)
2) Initialise a git repository for your project
3) Create your heroku app (heroku create)
4) Git Commit your files to the local repository
5) Git Push your app to heroku
3 step continuous deployment on Heroku
1) Enhance you app using your
development tools
2) Git Commit your files to the
local repository
3) Git Push your app to Heroku
Demo: A really quick appCreating live apps should be fast…
Technology used for Demo
Building the application Yeoman to scaffold and application
Grunt for project automation
NodeJS to run the website
Deployment Deployed as a node application on Heroku
Code available at: https://github.com/jr0cket/df13-heroku-intro
Heroku Summary
Deploy custom apps quickly and reliably
Elastically scale your customer facing apps based on business
value
Use existing language experience of your development teams
Feed valuable data into Salesforce Org & integrate with the
services it provides
Try Heroku for yourself
Learn more at:
http://heroku.com/
Getting started with Heroku guides:
http://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/quickstart