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Elevated error rates on applications and deployments

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Re: Elevated error rates on applications and deployments

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Post by taf2 »

benmmurphy wrote: post #16

This 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…

I use it when I don't want to spend time with servers or if the thing I'm deploying I don't trust - can be easily exploited. Like recently deployed a phantomjs service and well I'd rather not be concerned about the security implications of running a web browser on a server

Re: Elevated error rates on applications and deployments

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Post by bpicolo »

halilim wrote: post #30
benmmurphy wrote: post #16

This 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…

I wrestled with Elastic Beanstalk 10 months ago for 2 days and had to give up in the end. Every deploy was dog-slow. And I was trying all kinds of things, imagine the frustration. Only certain versions of software are supported, though I downgraded just to test EB. But I still couldn't get it running in the end. I can't recall a single time I had a problem deploying to Heroku, including the first deploys. Heroku is l…

EB supports docker deploys now, which helps with the version stuff, though can create it's own difficulties. True that EB deployment is very one-function though. Tacking anything on is hacky and gets thrown behind the scenes, so is hard to track and audit

Re: Elevated error rates on applications and deployments

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Post by Secretmapper »

stevedomin wrote: post #36
benmmurphy wrote: post #16

This 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 w…

This exactly. It essentially takes care of all the setup for me, plus the CD and provider add-ons are incredibly easy to install and setup.

I basically outsourced my cloud platform developers.

Re: Elevated error rates on applications and deployments

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Post by abhishivsaxena »

stevedomin wrote: post #36
benmmurphy wrote: post #16

This 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 w…

True, and that's why I stuck to heroku for a long time.

But, in the end I realised I can replicate most - if not all - of it with docker cloud and github. Most CI services support github anyways, so that's also covered.

And it's significantly cheaper, for my case we have 90% price reduction - paying only for instances + docker cloud.

Not connected with any service.

Re: Elevated error rates on applications and deployments

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Post by esteer »

stevedomin wrote: post #36
benmmurphy wrote: post #16

This 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 w…

How does Heroku's CD experience compare with AWS CodePipeline?

Re: Elevated error rates on applications and deployments

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Post by spacehunt »

benmmurphy wrote: post #16

This 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…

For sites already using Salesforce, Heroku Connect is quite a time saver. It handles the two-way sync between Salesforce objects and Heroku Postgres for you.

Re: Elevated error rates on applications and deployments

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Post by brightball »

benmmurphy wrote: post #16

This 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…

I wrote up a pretty long blog post for Codeship that generally explains it: https://blog.codeship.com/exploring-microservices-architectu...

Re: Elevated error rates on applications and deployments

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Post by dcecile »

gryzzly wrote: post #35

What is a good alternative for static single-page apps? What are downsides of S3?

My search led me to Netlify, which seems pretty great. It runs your build script when you push to GitHub, then serves the resulting static files with a Let's Encrypt certificate. Comes built-in with a CDN, so you don't need CloudFront or CloudFlare.
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