Facebook and Heroku

#1

Post by briandoll » Thu, Sep 15, 2011, 6:08 PM UTC

Re: Facebook and Heroku

#2

Post by briandoll » Thu, Sep 15, 2011, 6:19 PM UTC

This is pure win. The screencast on this post shows that with one click you get a deployed app (in the language you choose) that ships with an app template that uses the Facebook APIs to get you started.

We're witnessing a Facebook app that creates real living Facebook apps. Heroku continues to impress with insanely easy onboarding of folks new to deploying web apps, and building features the way things should work.

It must be amazing to start programming in the age of Heroku.

Re: Facebook and Heroku

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Post by mistermustard » Thu, Sep 15, 2011, 6:27 PM UTC

briandoll wrote: post #2

This is pure win. The screencast on this post shows that with one click you get a deployed app (in the language you choose) that ships with an app template that uses the Facebook APIs to get you started. We're witnessing a Facebook app that creates real living Facebook apps. Heroku continues to impress with insanely easy onboarding of folks new to deploying web apps, and building features the way things should work.…

Agreed. The barriers to start developing a web app now are incredibly low. You've got a server backend in Heroku, wand Facebook's gazillions of users right out of the gate.

Re: Facebook and Heroku

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Post by wccrawford » Thu, Sep 15, 2011, 6:28 PM UTC

briandoll wrote: post #2

This is pure win. The screencast on this post shows that with one click you get a deployed app (in the language you choose) that ships with an app template that uses the Facebook APIs to get you started. We're witnessing a Facebook app that creates real living Facebook apps. Heroku continues to impress with insanely easy onboarding of folks new to deploying web apps, and building features the way things should work.…

It's certainly a win for both companies involved. I've thought about using Heroku, and making a Facebook app, and the 2 of them together now makes it a lot more likely that both will happen.

Re: Facebook and Heroku

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Post by mwsherman » Thu, Sep 15, 2011, 6:37 PM UTC

briandoll wrote: post #2

This is pure win. The screencast on this post shows that with one click you get a deployed app (in the language you choose) that ships with an app template that uses the Facebook APIs to get you started. We're witnessing a Facebook app that creates real living Facebook apps. Heroku continues to impress with insanely easy onboarding of folks new to deploying web apps, and building features the way things should work.…

Actually, that’s the thing – if you are starting now it’s not amazing, it’s normal. :)

It’s amazing to us fogies.

Re: Facebook and Heroku

#6

Post by 2arrs2ells » Thu, Sep 15, 2011, 6:42 PM UTC

Remind anyone of the Facebook/Joyent partnership 3-4 years ago?

Re: Facebook and Heroku

#7

Post by dave_sullivan » Thu, Sep 15, 2011, 6:56 PM UTC

At Dreamforce a couple weeks ago I was wondering how sfdc was going to position Heroku since sfdc has already put a lot of time/effort into selling force.com. Seemed like they were trying to make the argument: "You use heroku for facebook apps and force.com for everything else!" This makes even more sense in that context.

Re: Facebook and Heroku

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Post by jorde » Thu, Sep 15, 2011, 7:00 PM UTC

As a Python developer I was delighted to see Python in the list of supported languages. After cloning the repo you can notice it's just a standard Flask site with Jijna2 templates and helpers for accessing Facebook's API. I can see this as a really easy way to start developing for Facebook and also Python.

Re: Facebook and Heroku

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Sep 15, 2011, 7:00 PM UTC

mwsherman wrote: post #5

briandoll wrote: post #2

This is pure win. The screencast on this post shows that with one click you get a deployed app (in the language you choose) that ships with an app template that uses the Facebook APIs to get you started. We're witnessing a Facebook app that creates real living Facebook apps. Heroku continues to impress with insanely easy onboarding of folks new to deploying web apps, and building features the way things should work.…

Actually, that’s the thing – if you are starting now it’s not amazing, it’s normal. :) It’s amazing to us fogies.

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Re: Facebook and Heroku

#10

Post by jerememonteau » Thu, Sep 15, 2011, 7:00 PM UTC

mwsherman wrote: post #5

briandoll wrote: post #2

This is pure win. The screencast on this post shows that with one click you get a deployed app (in the language you choose) that ships with an app template that uses the Facebook APIs to get you started. We're witnessing a Facebook app that creates real living Facebook apps. Heroku continues to impress with insanely easy onboarding of folks new to deploying web apps, and building features the way things should work.…

Actually, that’s the thing – if you are starting now it’s not amazing, it’s normal. :) It’s amazing to us fogies.

Exactly. Having started building webapps (when there just called CGI) in 1996 and seen all of the app servers and platforms come and go, there has never been a better time than now to be a web developer, thanks to products like Heroku, New Relic, SauceLabs, CloudBees, etc.. I'm constantly blown away by the improvements in developer efficiently being made seemingly every day right now. This is why you are seeing a ton of startups (even the well funded ones) only hiring a small focused technical team. What is rather funny is watching how fragmented the mobile development space has become, with some exceptions (PhoneGap, SpacePort, Mobify, etc.), especially considering that is where people are moving so rapidly to do their computing. But I'm no mobile expert so my perception is probably skewed.