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Re:Auto Scale your Heroku Apps with Hero Scale by railsjedi on Thursday December 16, 2010 @09:03AM (#2012027)
Yep, I tried all the open source autoscaling heroku tools on Github. They were not easy to use, and had major problems (try them, you'll see!)

I think Heroku users value their time above all else. There's much cheaper ways to host your Rails apps. This tool allows Heroku users to save money while not having to spend days getting their autoscaling stuff working and tested.

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Re:Auto Scale your Heroku Apps with Hero Scale by aaronbrethorst on Thursday December 16, 2010 @02:00PM (#2013151)
Pedro's DJ fork[1] has worked quite well for me. What didn't go well with it for you?

[1] https://github.com/pedro/delayed_job/tree/autoscaling

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Re:Auto Scale your Heroku Apps with Hero Scale by steveklabnik on Thursday December 16, 2010 @03:58PM (#2013646)
It only scales jobs, it doesn't scale dynos.
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Re:Auto Scale your Heroku Apps with Hero Scale by runT1ME on Thursday December 16, 2010 @05:02PM (#2013957)
>>I think Heroku users value their time above all else. There's much cheaper ways to host your Rails apps. This tool allows Heroku users to save money while not having to spend days getting their autoscaling stuff working and tested.

Then charge more!!!

I mean, you just said it yourself, your target market values time over money. Don't try to compete on price then. right? :)

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Re:Auto Scale your Heroku Apps with Hero Scale by enoptix on Thursday December 16, 2010 @10:11AM (#2012255)
This one works exceptionally well with Resque:

https://gist.github.com/501160

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Re:Auto Scale your Heroku Apps with Hero Scale by steveklabnik on Thursday December 16, 2010 @03:59PM (#2013649)
This scales workers, it doesn't scale dynos.
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