Tag: heroku

  • Heroku is great! However…

    I like Heroku. We’ve recently made our first deployment on it, and all things considered, I don’t think we could’ve made a better platform choice at this time. Deploying to Heroku taught me quite a few things, easily the most important of them was hearing about the 12 Factor App methodology. If you haven’t heard…

  • I wish someone wrote django-static-upstream… maybe even… me!

    I used to think serving static files (aka static assets) is really easy: configure nginx to serve a directory and you’re done. But things quickly became more complicated as issues like asset compilation, CDNs/scalability, file-specific custom headers, deployment complexity and development/production parity rear their ugly heads. Judging by the huge number of different asset management…