Show HN: Dynosaur, An autoscaler for Heroku using Google Analytics Live

Re:Show HN: Dynosaur, An autoscaler for Heroku using Google ... by dylandrop on Wednesday January 22, 2014 @10:09AM (#7102919)

Have you done any comparisons/benchmarks vs Adept Scale, Bounscale, or HireFire? Also why Google Analytics default as opposed to some other service?

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Re:Show HN: Dynosaur, An autoscaler for Heroku using Google ... by werkshy on Wednesday January 22, 2014 @10:13AM (#7102943)

We haven't benchmarked against other autoscalers or done any direct comparisons.

Our main motivation was to write something that scaled as we scale manually (i.e. when we get a lot of traffic due to press hits etc, we scale up based on GA realtime data as well as New Relic response times). When we were given access to the GA live API it just seemed like a natural fit.

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Re:Show HN: Dynosaur, An autoscaler for Heroku using Google ... by noodle on Wednesday January 22, 2014 @11:55AM (#7103803)

Just speaking off the top of my head here, but services like HireFire ping the Heroku API to poll for information on when to scale. The Heroku API is a little rate limited. You'll probably get a more responsive result using GA.

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Re:Show HN: Dynosaur, An autoscaler for Heroku using Google ... by spydertennis on Wednesday January 22, 2014 @02:55PM (#7104950)

HireFire uses New Relic. I would think that's more responsive than GA.

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