Re:Zencoder joins the Heroku Add-on catalog
by dawson on Wednesday November 10, 2010 @12:54PM
(#1891188)
This is something I have been thinking about recently.
I'm about to start a reasonably large project in rails and I've been trying to decide whether to host it with Heroku or Linode.
I've used Heroku before and I was really impressed, it's so simple to get started and I reckon it would scale well up to point I needed to start considering a dedicated solution.
My concern is, Heroku makes add-ons almost too easy, and in my opinion, it may become [for me] a form of vendor lock-in. I say this because I could easily see myself using several add-ons that I wouldn't otherwise, and many more that could really improve the efficiency of my application. But, how easy is it to migrate your application and attached add-ons from Heroku once you have installed / integrated through their platform?
Re:Zencoder joins the Heroku Add-on catalog
by Janteh on Wednesday November 10, 2010 @01:06PM
(#1891245)
All their add-ons are based on either open source or third party solutions. You can keep using the open source solutions by simply installing them yourself and the third party solutions all have API's or even gems to work with.
Re:Zencoder joins the Heroku Add-on catalog
by jon_dahl on Wednesday November 10, 2010 @03:18PM
(#1891665)
My concern is, Heroku makes add-ons almost too easy, and in my opinion, it may become [for me] a form of vendor lock-in. ... how easy is it to migrate your application and attached add-ons from Heroku once you have installed / integrated through their platform?
Not that hard. Zencoder uses the same API whether you're a Heroku customer or not, and I expect that is true of most add-ons that are third-party services.
Re:Zencoder joins the Heroku Add-on catalog
by clutchski on Wednesday November 10, 2010 @01:25PM
(#1891309)
Yea. I just added the New Relic analytics add-on and was pretty astonished at how much valuable information you get with _zero_ configuration. Totally worth checking out.
I'm about to start a reasonably large project in rails and I've been trying to decide whether to host it with Heroku or Linode.
I've used Heroku before and I was really impressed, it's so simple to get started and I reckon it would scale well up to point I needed to start considering a dedicated solution.
My concern is, Heroku makes add-ons almost too easy, and in my opinion, it may become [for me] a form of vendor lock-in. I say this because I could easily see myself using several add-ons that I wouldn't otherwise, and many more that could really improve the efficiency of my application. But, how easy is it to migrate your application and attached add-ons from Heroku once you have installed / integrated through their platform?
Not that hard. Zencoder uses the same API whether you're a Heroku customer or not, and I expect that is true of most add-ons that are third-party services.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1891907