About the Instructor

This tutorial is lead by Kenneth Reitz.

Kenneth is the product owner of Python at Heroku and a member of the Python Software Foundation. He embraces minimalism, elegant architecture, and simple interfaces. Kenneth is well known for his many open source projects, specifically Requests.

This tutorial will present a hands-on, step-by-step process of deploying Python applications to Heroku.

Topics covered:

• A brief history of web application deployment
• An in-depth overview of the Twelve-Factor application methodolgy
• An explanation of Heroku’s place in the deployment ecosystem
• Local development environment setup and configuration
• The step-by-step process of deploying a simple Django application to Heroku
• An overview of Heroku management tools and services

Perquisites

This tutorial assumes these basic prequsites:

• POSIX development environment (OSX, Linux)
• Working knowlege of Web Frameworks
• Working knowlege of Python
• Working knowlege of Git
• Windows users are welcome to attend the tutorial, but this is only recommended for users familiar with using Git and Python in that environment.

I will try to be accomidating as possible to newcomers, but not at the expense of the other attendees.