10 Jan 2008

Simplifying Web Framework Deployment on Shared Hosting

On Dreamhost freaking out because they can’t get Rails deployed reliably.

tomayko.com   02:18

26 Jun 2010

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.

paulhammond.org   05:05

28 Apr 2010

Heroku Ships Experimental Node.js Support

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

blog.heroku.com   18:26

26 May 2009

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 :)

blog.jerodsanto.net   05:29

24 Apr 2009

Deploying Ruby Web Applications to Heroku

Remi’s kick ass screencast on deploying to Heroku.

remi.org   14:58

03 Mar 2009

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.

heroku.com   18:29

07 Feb 2009

The Future of Deployment

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

blog.heroku.com   15:35

22 Feb 2008

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.

purefiction.net   14:16

03 Feb 2008

SwitchPipe - Process Manager and Proxy for Rapid Web App Deployment

Peter Cooper scratches the deployment problem itch.

switchpipe.org   12:48

12 Jan 2008

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.”

varnish.projects.linpro.no   23:33

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.

bob.pythonmac.org   07:25

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.

blog.ianbicking.org   07:17

10 Jan 2008

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.”

al3x.net   04:35