Description:
Heroku has deployed over a million web apps. When you've run that many applications, it's hard not to notice when frameworks and developers do things wrong, and when they do them right. We've taken a look at the most common patterns and boiled down the best of our advice in to 12 simple factors that can help you build your next app to be stable, successful, and scaleable. After this talk you'll walk away with in depth knowledge of web framework design patterns and practical examples of how to improve your application code.
Comments on this Talk
I was hoping for a little more actionable insight. Too much of the 12 Factors came down to explaining factors that Rails already does, and pointing out that Rails does them, yay Rails! That list would probably be a lot more insightful to a non-Ruby crowd, but most of the people in the room have been trained by Rails and other bits of Ruby ecosystem (Capistrano, etc) to know that these are Good Things. I would have preferred skimming more quickly over all the ones Rails does (or at least strongly encourages), and focused more tightly on the ones it doesn't.
It seemed like the talk was trying to cover too much in too short a time. Rather than going over each of the 12 simple factors I would have loved to hear a more focused talk about the handful of factors that are going to be the most valuable to Ruby devs.