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Re:I left Heroku for OpsWorks and shaved 40% off response times by joeblau on Friday February 07, 2014 @06:13PM (#7199412)
Nice writeup. I recently switched from Nodejitsu over to Heroku for my open source project gitignore.io and I noticed there was a slight slowdown in response time. The app score index in New Relic went from around 92 to 100 though so I guess Heroku's servers on AWS were a bit more reliable. I also added in a CDN to increase the speed of serving the static assets.

All in all, I can say that I'm happy with the transition, but I'm also running one Dyno which I'm far from maxing out. I feel like for a larger product, Heroku would be more problems down the line than it's worth.

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Re:I left Heroku for OpsWorks and shaved 40% off response times by swrobel on Friday February 07, 2014 @06:17PM (#7199437)
Exactly how I felt, great at small scale, but increasingly painful to use as you reach scale.

By the way, great tool, thanks for building it!

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