08 April 2013 Web applications deployments cannot be slow. The definition of slow, of course, is relative. I like to think slow is anything that breaks the flow, that takes long enough to make me lose focus of what I am doing. Recently I moved a Rails 3 app from Heroku to Amazon Elastic Beanstalk (EB). Deploying to Heroku was not showing the best performance results, but to EB was taking enough ti