Next-Generation Ruby Deployment with Heroku

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Next-Generation Ruby Deployment with Heroku Adam Wiggins RubyFoo 2009

Me: Adam Wiggins •RestClient •Sumo •Scanty •rush •Pony •Heroku co-founder http://adam.blog.heroku.com http://github.com/adamwiggins

Part 1 My Journey

Living the dream: a career in video games

Game industry development: •Bad tools •Bad process

Feedback Loop Compile & run: minutes Release: years

“There must be a better way”

Career change

New tools •Perl •Java •Apache •MySQL, PostgreSQL •Linux

New process •Just-in-time compilation •Frequent deployments

Feedback Loop Compile & run: seconds Release: weeks

•Better tools •Fast feedback

•Better tools •Fast feedback Productivity!

A decade of improvements: •Agile •Web standards •Ruby •Web frameworks •Distributed revision control •Virtualization •Cloud

The Bad News

Deployment tools and process haven’t improved much in ten years.

Perl, circa 1999 •Apache (mod_perl) •Linux •MySQL •ssh •Colocated hardware

Ruby, circa 2009 •Apache (Passenger) •Linux •MySQL •Capistrano (automated ssh) •Virtual machine

It’s time for a revolution in web app deployment

Part 2 Heroku

Forget about servers

Forget about servers It’s about your app.

Use Git to manage your deployments The same thing you use to collaborate with other developers.

Instant deployment! $ heroku create

Instant deployment! $ heroku create Created http://myapp.heroku.com/ | git@heroku.com:myapp.git Git remote heroku added

Instant deployment! $ heroku create Created http://myapp.heroku.com/ | git@heroku.com:myapp.git Git remote heroku added $ git push heroku master

Instant deployment! $ heroku create Created http://myapp.heroku.com/ | git@heroku.com:myapp.git Git remote heroku added $ git push heroku master Counting objects: 4, done. Total 4 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)

Instant deployment! $ heroku create Created http://myapp.heroku.com/ | git@heroku.com:myapp.git Git remote heroku added $ git push heroku master Counting objects: 4, done. Total 4 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0) -----> Heroku receiving push -----> Sinatra app detected Compiled slug size is 4K -----> Launching.... done http://myapp.heroku.com deployed to Heroku

Feedback Loop Compile & run: seconds Release: seconds

Rake $ heroku rake db:migrate (in /disk1/home/slugs/59315_629097a_a8c8/mnt) == CreateWidgets: migrating ================================================== -- create_table(:widgets) -> 0.0648s == CreateWidgets: migrated (0.0650s) =========================================

Console $ heroku console Ruby console for myapp.heroku.com >> Widget.find(:first) => #<Widget id: 1, name: "Hello, world", size: nil, created_at: "2009-09-24 01:16:40", updated_at: "2009-09-24 01:16:40">

More features •Custom domains •Gem management •Database import/export •Cron •SSL •Background jobs •HTTP caching •Memcached http://docs.heroku.com

Scale?

Scale? •Provision servers •Install OS •Setup packages •Install app •mongrel_cluster.yml •httpd.conf

Go big! Crank your dynos

Free for small apps; pay when you grow

“If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere” (standard open source components, no lock-in)

Deployed Apps 36000 27000 18000 9000 0 Dec May Oct Apr Sep

Part 3 Heroku Internals

Built for the cloud from day one

HTTP caching

Routing mesh

Slug compiler