Chapter 1. Hello Heroku
The recent advances in technology coupled with a demand for cost efficient computing have led to an enormous growth of cloud computing usage in modern day businesses. Users want to optimize their resource usage of the CPU, network, and the memory and pay for only what they use. Virtualization, faster/larger computing power, and high speed network backbones have led to an explosion in the deployment of cloud infrastructure across the world. Along with the underlying infrastructure, many platforms have evolved to support the ability to develop real apps for the cloud environment virtually from anywhere. Additionally, new cloud-based software apps have proliferated so fast that they have replaced the notion of installed software ...
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