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Elevated error rates on applications and deployments
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#32I'm currently at the Nordic.js conference http://nordicjs.com/ (which... is down right now). Suddenly half the audience started to looking at mobile phones, unpacking laptops. Poor timing for the current speaker...
At least our apps are now up and running again after being down.
Finally I can start focusing on the talks instead...
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#33It took them 15 minutes to update their status from the time of our last received request.
Just like with previous incidents. I understand operating Heroku is not trivial but with 15 minutes after my monitoring systems (Pingdom, New Relic and Logentries) notifies me they need to improve this.
also not the cheapest service and no direct support line…
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#34Up now
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#35What is a good alternative for static single-page apps? What are downsides of S3?
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#36This is kind of offtopic but what is the attraction of using Heroku over using EC2 directly now. I remember back in the day when EC2 didn't have RDS and Elasticbeanstalk Heroku was an attractive option because you could deploy and scale without needing to do any kind of system administration. But now EC2 is offering managed databases through RDS and elastic bean stalk gives you git style deployment similar to Heroku…
There is much more to Heroku than managed database and git-based deployments. For instance, recently they have seriously improved the CD experience with Pipelines, Review apps and GitHub sync. They also have pretty seamless integrations with hundreds of providers (email, logging, search, monitoring, ...) in the form of add-ons. You get some basic metrics on your application.
And if security is a concern, or/and you want your dynos to talk to each other, they now have Private Spaces (https://www.heroku.com/private-spaces).
Simply said they are taking the "managed services" experience to a whole new level imo.
Plus, you may not care about that, but they actually have a UI/UX team that can design beautiful AND usable dashboards.
(Note: I don't work at Heroku, just a happy user)
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#37Back Online!
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#38Re: Elevated error rates on applications and deployments
#39This is kind of offtopic but what is the attraction of using Heroku over using EC2 directly now. I remember back in the day when EC2 didn't have RDS and Elasticbeanstalk Heroku was an attractive option because you could deploy and scale without needing to do any kind of system administration. But now EC2 is offering managed databases through RDS and elastic bean stalk gives you git style deployment similar to Heroku…
Simple. For me, I have a dozen apps running on heroku, and they are all on the free tier. The amazon free instances require credit card and only last for a period of time. I've had mt heroku apps running for years.
It makes spinning up and trying an idea very fast.
For the projects that end up having lots of users, I move to GCE or AWS
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#40What is a good alternative for static single-page apps? What are downsides of S3?
I host all my APIs on Heroku and all my static front ends on S3 with CloudFront on top. No downsides in my mind. Free and instant TLS certs with CloudFront, too.