Re:Scaling Cheddar
by alexbosworth on Thursday July 12, 2012 @05:58AM
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My experiences from writing + running our tasks App backend ( http://tomorrow.do/ ) on Heroku:
1. Node.js + expressjs is quite an efficient option for serving API and the static site on Heroku, only the single free dyno is needed for over 3 million installs and peaks of 30-40k site visits. Only rarely have we needed a second or third dyno under an extremely heavy peak traffic period.
2. A commercial CDN is a good and not too costly option for static files ( http://maxcdn.com )
3. AWS database + file services like DynamoDB/S3 are not that flexible but aren't too expensive, pretty much scale up and down without you doing too much and don't go offline much at all
1. Node.js + expressjs is quite an efficient option for serving API and the static site on Heroku, only the single free dyno is needed for over 3 million installs and peaks of 30-40k site visits. Only rarely have we needed a second or third dyno under an extremely heavy peak traffic period.
2. A commercial CDN is a good and not too costly option for static files ( http://maxcdn.com )
3. AWS database + file services like DynamoDB/S3 are not that flexible but aren't too expensive, pretty much scale up and down without you doing too much and don't go offline much at all