If you see this warning regularly and worry that your application may soon fail to deploy, then this article is for you. Warning: You slug size (443 MB) exceeds our soft limit (300 MB) which may affect boot time Slug First things first, what is a slug? A slug is essentially the compressed copy of your application comprising of your git repo along with packages that are installed at deploy time lik
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