Chapter 2. Inside Heroku

Now that we have test driven Heroku and know a little bit about its feature set, it's time to understand some inner workings of the Heroku platform.

The Heroku cloud development platform provides you with the foundation for developing, deploying, and troubleshooting your cloud-based applications. It is comprised of the following components:

In this chapter, we review each of these foundational aspects of the Heroku platform in a little more detail. We will also get a deeper understanding of the Heroku process architecture—the core component of the Heroku runtime environment.