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girl_friday
Have a task you want to get done but don't want to do it yourself? Give it to girl_friday!
Rollbar is a great error-tracking service. It alerts us on exceptions and errors, provides analysis tools and dashboard, so we can see, reproduce, and fix bugs quickly when something went wrong. This service has a possibility to log not only uncaught exceptions but any messages. By default, the messages are reported synchronously, but you can enable asynchronous reporting using Sidekiq, girl_friday, or Resque. Also, you can provide your own handler and a failover handler to be confident, that your error is tracked and delivered in the case of primary handler’s fail.
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InfluxDB
InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.
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PostgreSQL
Mirror of the official PostgreSQL GIT repository. Note that this is just a *mirror* - we don't work with pull requests on github. To contribute, please see https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Submitting_a_Patch
As the most similar alternative, you can use Ninefold or OpenShift. They both provide free plans and can run almost any database while Heroku uses PostgreSQL.
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Resque
Resque is a Redis-backed Ruby library for creating background jobs, placing them on multiple queues, and processing them later.
Rollbar is a great error-tracking service. It alerts us on exceptions and errors, provides analysis tools and dashboard, so we can see, reproduce, and fix bugs quickly when something went wrong. This service has a possibility to log not only uncaught exceptions but any messages. By default, the messages are reported synchronously, but you can enable asynchronous reporting using Sidekiq, girl_friday, or Resque. Also, you can provide your own handler and a failover handler to be confident, that your error is tracked and delivered in the case of primary handler’s fail.
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It is unacceptable to bring a risk of accidentally sending dummy emails to real customers. To test email notifications, I recommend using Mailtrap. Mailtrap is a dummy SMTP server for testing emails sent from development and staging environments. Mailcatcher can be a replacement here. If you are looking for service, that helps to ensure your emails reach customer inboxes, you should look at Mailgun, Sendgrid, or Mandrill. All of them provide email deliverability expertise, and they have solid free plans, offering 10k emails per month.
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The Rollbar’s ancestor, Airbrake, is another good choice (if you can afford it, because it has no free plan). You can see a detailed comparison between these two here: https://rollbar.com/vs/airbrake/. The same applies to Honeybadger — one more popular modern error management service for rails. In a nutshell, they do similar things but may have different bells and whistles.
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There are many CDN providers available today. Among the most popular are AWS CloudFront and CloudFlare. Both are pretty cheap and provide relatively similar performance. To see setup guide, visit http://www.higherorderheroku.com/articles/cloudflare-dns-heroku/ or https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/using-amazon-cloudfront-cdn.
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Rollbar is a great error-tracking service. It alerts us on exceptions and errors, provides analysis tools and dashboard, so we can see, reproduce, and fix bugs quickly when something went wrong. This service has a possibility to log not only uncaught exceptions but any messages. By default, the messages are reported synchronously, but you can enable asynchronous reporting using Sidekiq, girl_friday, or Resque. Also, you can provide your own handler and a failover handler to be confident, that your error is tracked and delivered in the case of primary handler’s fail.
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SaaSHub
SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives
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Rollbar is a great error-tracking service. It alerts us on exceptions and errors, provides analysis tools and dashboard, so we can see, reproduce, and fix bugs quickly when something went wrong. This service has a possibility to log not only uncaught exceptions but any messages. By default, the messages are reported synchronously, but you can enable asynchronous reporting using Sidekiq, girl_friday, or Resque. Also, you can provide your own handler and a failover handler to be confident, that your error is tracked and delivered in the case of primary handler’s fail.
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Redis
For developers, who are building real-time data-driven applications, Redis is the preferred, fastest, and most feature-rich cache, data structure server, and document and vector query engine.
One of the most effective ways to improve the application’s performance is caching regularly accessed data. There are two leading key-value stores: Memcached and Redis. I prefer using Memcached Cloud add-on for caching because it was originally intended for it and is easier to set up, and using Redis only for background jobs.
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One of the most effective ways to improve the application’s performance is caching regularly accessed data. There are two leading key-value stores: Memcached and Redis. I prefer using Memcached Cloud add-on for caching because it was originally intended for it and is easier to set up, and using Redis only for background jobs.
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It is unacceptable to bring a risk of accidentally sending dummy emails to real customers. To test email notifications, I recommend using Mailtrap. Mailtrap is a dummy SMTP server for testing emails sent from development and staging environments. Mailcatcher can be a replacement here. If you are looking for service, that helps to ensure your emails reach customer inboxes, you should look at Mailgun, Sendgrid, or Mandrill. All of them provide email deliverability expertise, and they have solid free plans, offering 10k emails per month.
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The Rollbar’s ancestor, Airbrake, is another good choice (if you can afford it, because it has no free plan). You can see a detailed comparison between these two here: https://rollbar.com/vs/airbrake/. The same applies to Honeybadger — one more popular modern error management service for rails. In a nutshell, they do similar things but may have different bells and whistles.
