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Developing and Running Applications on Heroku

  • Number of Courses8 courses
  • Duration15 hours
  • Skill IQ available Skill IQ

This skill is intended to provide the learner with the competence to leverage the Heroku platform to develop and run applications. With the knowledge found in this path, learners will have the foundational knowledge needed to deploy, manage and scale applications using Heroku.

Courses in this path

Beginner

In this section of the path, you'll gain a broad understanding of the Heroku platform and its overall capabilities. You'll also learn how to get started working with Heroku.

Heroku: The Big Picture

  • by Steve Buchanan
  • 2h 23m Duration

Heroku-18: Getting Started

  • by Saravanan Dhandapani
  • 1h 55m Duration

Intermediate

In this section of the path, you'll start learning how to build and deploy production applications on Heroku. You'll dig into specifics like ensuring application reliability, storing and managing data, and collaborating with team members.

Running Production Applications on Heroku

  • by Alex Korban
  • 1h 58m Duration

Ensuring Application Reliability and Performance on Heroku

  • by Soham Kamani
  • 1h 23m Duration

Collaborating with Teams and CI/CD Tools on Heroku-18

  • by Saravanan Dhandapani
  • 1h 35m Duration

Storing and Managing Data with Postgres on Heroku

  • by Pinal Dave
  • 2h 26m Duration
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Storing and Managing Data with Redis and Apache Kafka on Heroku-18

  • by Saravanan Dhandapani
  • 1h 54m Duration

Advanced

In this section of the path, you'll learn about some of the more advanced capabilities of the Heroku platform, including how to build enterprise applications and how to extend and automate the platform as a whole.

Building Enterprise Applications on Heroku

  • by Pluralsight
  • Duration

Extending and Automating the Heroku Platform

  • by Hongtao Xiao
  • 1h 16m Duration

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Steve Buchanan
Steve Buchanan
Steve Buchanan is a Principal Program Manager with a leading global tech giant focused on improving the cloud. He is a Pluralsight author, the author of eight technical books, and a former 10-time Microsoft MVP. He has presented at tech events, including, DevOps Days, Open Source North, Midwest Management Summit (MMS), Microsoft Ignite, BITCon, Experts Live Europe, OSCON, Inside Azure management, and user groups. He has been featured in several publications including the Star Tribune (the 5th ... more
Saravanan Dhandapani
Saravanan Dhandapani
I have been working in IT design, development, and architecture for more than a decade for some of the top fortune 100 companies. I have been involved in fine-tuning software delivery process, improving performance and developing software that is scalable and portable. Some of the key areas where I have worked on are architecture and design using Java, ESB, Tomcat, ReactJS, JavaScript, Linux, Oracle, SVN, GIT and so on and cloud technologies including AWS and GCP.
Alex Korban
Alex Korban
Alex Korban is an author and independent consultant with an interest in functional programming, databases, and geospatial applications. He's written several books about C++11 and C++14. Alex co-founded a company to visualize geospatial data for the heavy construction industry in order to improve safety and productivity when building highways, tunnels, and other infrastructure. Prior to that he worked on a wide range of software, such as early mobile applications, a flight simulator, and GPS-base... more
Soham Kamani
Soham Kamani
Soham is a full stack developer with experience in building large scale web applications and services for clients across the globe. He is a book author, and writes on his blog regularly on various topics related to web development. Soham has extensive experience with React, D3, Node.js and Go stacks.
Pinal Dave
Pinal Dave
Pinal Dave is an SQL Server Performance Tuning Expert and independent consultant with over 21 years of hands-on experience. He holds a Master of Science degree and numerous database certifications. Pinal has authored 14 SQL Server database books and 42 Pluralsight courses. To freely share his knowledge and help others build their expertise, Pinal has also written more than 5,500 database tech articles on his blog at https://blog.sqlauthority.com.
Hongtao Xiao
Hongtao Xiao
Hong Xiao is a professional software developer since 2012. During the years, he is involved in different phases including designing, implementing, testing, and debugging of several successful software projects. He is a professional developer of programming languages including Java, .Net, Python and ECMAScript/Javascript, and he is an everyday user of scripting languages including Shell/Bash and PowerShell.

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