Ryan Tomayko

Always ship trunk —

Paul Hammond’s recent Velocity talk on managing different code-paths for beta features, A/B testing, staff-only features, etc. in web apps. I’ve been interested in tools and techniques for doing percentage-based feature deploys for a long time. This is the first time I’ve seen someone talk about it in any detail.

Heroku Ships Experimental Node.js Support —

Boom. It looks like long running connections aren’t completely baked yet but this is really promising.

3 Reasons Why Heroku is a Game Changer —

We’ve been getting a decent amount of PR-ish type coverage since the commercial launch but I still say blog posts like these are infinitely more interesting:

Remember when microwaves first hit the scene and people couldn’t believe how fast they could ‘deploy’ a meal? Yah me either, but the microwave changed the game big time.

And, unlike the microwave, Heroku doesn’t make your apps taste like cardboard :)

Deploying Ruby Web Applications to Heroku —

Remi’s kick ass screencast on deploying to Heroku.

Heroku - How it Works —

Things are starting to get interesting around here. James pulled together some (fucking sexy) high level architectural diagrams and annotated them just so. We can start talking about what we’re up to a bit more now that this is out. I’m jazzed.

The Future of Deployment —

I started full time with Heroku last Wednesday. This is why.

Process title support for Mongrel —

Constantly updates the the process title ($0) with something like: “mongrel_rails [10010/2/358]: handling 127.0.0.1: HEAD /feed/calendar/global/91/6de4”. Let’s you monitor backends with ps and top.

SwitchPipe - Process Manager and Proxy for Rapid Web App Deployment —

Peter Cooper scratches the deployment problem itch.

ArchitectNotes - Varnish —

“I have spent many years working on the FreeBSD kernel, and only rarely did I venture into userland programming, but when I had occation to do so, I invariably found that people programmed like it was still 1975.”

Reverse proxy roundup —

Bob Ippolito wrote up some pros and cons to reverse proxy implementations in different servers a few months back. I don’t think much of it is out of date at this point but nginx isn’t represented.

What PHP Deployment Gets Right —

Ian takes a look at some of the attributes of PHP’s deployment model, why they work so well (for PHP), and why other environments have such a hard time duplicating them.

Shared Hosting is a Ghetto —

“The constraints, the instability, and the unpredictability of a shared hosting environment are a big part of the reason why the web hosting business is moving towards virtualization everywhere you look. Big kids need their own sandboxes to play in.”