In this post, we have prepared a curated top list of reading recommendations for beginners and experienced. This hand-picked list of the best Heroku books and tutorials can help fill your brain this May and ensure you’re getting smarter. We have also mentioned the brief introduction of each book based on the relevant Amazon or Reddit descriptions.
- Heroku: Up and Running (2013)
- Professional Heroku Programming (2013)
- Heroku Cookbook (2014)
- The DevOps Handbook (2016)
- Heroku Cloud Application Development (2014)
- Heroku (2017)
- Learning Heroku Postgres (2015)
- Learning Salesforce Einstein (2017)
- Irresistible APIs: Designing web APIs that developers will love (2016)
- Full Stack JavaScript: Learn Backbone.js, Node.js and MongoDB (2015)
- Getting MEAN with Mongo, Express, Angular, and Node (2015)
- Rapid Prototyping with JS: Agile JavaScript Development (2014)
Heroku: Up and Running (2013)
Take full advantage of Heroku’s cloud-based hosting services. This guide takes you through the inner workings of this PaaS platform and delivers practical advice for architecting your application to work as efficiently as possible.
Author(s): Neil Middleton, Richard Schneeman
Professional Heroku Programming (2013)
A complete guide to building and deploying web apps with Heroku. A cloud application platform, Heroku is currently the only approved platform for creating apps within Facebook, and its number of users is growing at rapid pace. However, there are very few books on the market that offer professional-level coverage of this platform, until now.
Author(s): Chris Kemp, Brad Gyger
Heroku Cookbook (2014)
Over 70 step-by-step recipes to solve the challenges of administering and scaling a real-world production web application on Heroku. This book is intended for developers who want to learn what it takes to deploy and manage production level applications on Heroku. You may have already deployed applications to Heroku or may be entirely new to the platform. This book will get you up to speed quickly with all the knowledge needed to run real-world web applications on Heroku.
Author(s): Mike Coutermarsh
The DevOps Handbook (2016)
Increase profitability, elevate work culture, and exceed productivity goals through DevOps practices. More than ever, the effective management of technology is critical for business competitiveness. For decades, technology leaders have struggled to balance agility, reliability, and security. The consequences of failure have never been greater―whether it’s the healthcare.gov debacle, cardholder data breaches, or missing the boat with Big Data in the cloud.
Author(s): Gene Kim, Patrick Debois
Heroku Cloud Application Development (2014)
A comprehensive guide to help you build, deploy, and troubleshoot cloud applications seamlessly using Heroku. This book is intended for those who want to learn Heroku the right way. Perhaps you are new to Heroku or are someone who has heard about Heroku but have not built anything significant with it. You should have knowledge or familiarity with cloud computing and basic knowledge of database and network deployment.
Author(s): Anubhav Hanjura
Heroku (2017)
What knowledge, skills and characteristics mark a good Heroku project manager? How do we keep improving Heroku? How can you measure Heroku in a systematic way? Who will be responsible for documenting the Heroku requirements in detail? Are there Heroku Models? Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a business challenge or meet a business objective is the most valuable role… In EVERY company, organization and department. Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project within a business, there should be a process.
Author(s): Gerard Blokdyk
Learning Heroku Postgres (2015)
Efficiently design, implement, and manage a successful PostgreSQL database with Heroku. Learning Heroku Postgres is targeted at developers and database admins. Even if you’re new to Heroku Postgres, you’ll be able to master both the basic as well as advanced features of Heroku Postgres. Since Heroku Postgres is incredibly user-friendly, no previous experience in computer coding or programming is required. This book establishes a good learning mechanism by initially
Author(s): Patrick Espake
Learning Salesforce Einstein (2017)
Dreamforce 16 brought forth the latest addition to the Salesforce platform: an AI tool named Einstein. Einstein promises to provide users of all Salesforce applications with a powerful platform to help them gain deep insights into the data they work on. This book will introduce you to Einstein and help you integrate it into your respective business applications based on the Salesforce platform.
Author(s): Mohith Shrivastava
Irresistible APIs: Designing web APIs that developers will love (2016)
A Web API is a platform with a web-style interface developers can use to implement functionality. Well-designed APIs feel like a natural extension of the application, rather than just a new interface into the backend database. Designing Web APIs based on use cases allows an organization to develop irresistible APIs, which developers can consume easily and which support the business values of that organization. It takes a village to deliver an irresistible web API.
Author(s): Kirsten Hunter
Full Stack JavaScript: Learn Backbone.js, Node.js and MongoDB (2015)
This is a hands on book which introduces you to agile JavaScript web and mobile software development using the latest cutting edge front end and back end technologies including Node js MongoDB Backbone js Parse com Heroku and Windows Azure Practical examples include building multiple versions of the Chat app jQuery Parse com JS REST API