Focusing on your core strength and let the professional take care of the rest

1. Deploying Apps to the Cloud
Focusing on your core strength and let the
professional take care of the rest

2. Introduction
McCann New York
Senior Agile Software Developer
.NET, Python, Node.js, iOS
Microsites, Facebook apps, Mobile apps,
Installations, prototyping

5. Agenda
What is Platform as a Service (PaaS)?
Heroku
AppHarbor

6. What is Platform as a Service?
Cloud computing has evolved to include platforms
for building and running custom applications, a
concept known as “platform as a service” (or PaaS).
PaaS applications are also referred to as on-demand,
Web-based, or software as a service (or SaaS)
solutions.
salesforce.com

7. Examples of PaaS

8. Example of Infrastructure as a Service

9. PaaS vs IaaS - Pros
Tight integration
Time to market
Let someone else worry uptime, scaling, etc.

10. PaaS vs IaaS - Cons
Restricted to supported Add-ons
Opaque scaling

11. (her-OH-koo)
Deployment & Management
Scaling
Fault Tolerance
Add-Ons

12. Frameworks

13. Deployment
Manage using Heroku Toolbelt
CLI client
Foreman
Git

14. Deployment using Git
$ git push heroku master

15. Other toolbelt commands
$ heroku ps
$ heroku logs

16. Foreman
Run locally
Simulate Heroku environment
$ foreman start
$ foreman stop

17. Dynos
Web & Worker processes
Isolated
Erosion-resistant (bit-rot)
Restart process automatically
Relocate to new hardware
Automatic OS and components patching

18. Scaling
Use toolbelt CLI to scale up/down
$ heroku scale web=2 worker=1

19. Add-Ons
Blitz
MySQL
MongoHQ
Memcache
New Relic
Redis
SendGrid
And many more!

20. Demo time

21. AppHarbor
Heroku for .NET
Deployment using Git, Mercurial, GitHub,
BitBucket, CodePlex
Less Add-Ons

22. Demo
No CLI tool, no Foreman
Just use RCS commits
DLL references

23. Questions?

24. Feedback
@alexhung
alex.y.hung@gmail.com
alex.hung@mccann.com