Is EC2 the right choice? What about mod_rails? We are interested in providing a platform where you just worry about your application code, and we do the rest. We are constantly evaluating the options on our side for providing the most robust, scalable platform. We are working with Amazon to iron out the current kinks, and we are collaborating with several other companies for our cloud infrastructure. We look forward to being able to announce more about this in the future.
As far as actual software choices in the stack, we are always evaluating and trying to select the best options. If mod_rails, for example, becomes a stable, viable choice for running Rails apps, we will certainly adopt it. It is unlikely, however, that mod_rails by itself will solve all of the problems we need to solve in order to provide a smooth cloud deployment experience. Ultimately, we will always be working to provide the smoothest stack, using the latest and greatest options. I should also note that while we're usually working with things long before they are announced, we look forward to hearing from you about emerging stack components that we might not be aware of - always happy to hear about and evaluate new options. - James On Apr 11, 2008, at 2:11 AM, James Lindenbaum wrote: > > Wow, thank you all for sharing your thoughts and concerns, it's really > useful for us to hear. I'm sorry we've been a bit slow to respond to > emails in recent days, let me try to give you some updates and answer > some questions. > > While it may not be apparent from activity on this list, we have been > growing pretty substantially. We are now up to 9,000 developers, and > over 10,000 apps have been built. More importantly than the growth in > total developers, is that the actual usage has been increasing > dramatically - more serious development work, more apps being built, > more developers really putting Heroku to the test - trying demanding > things, testing every nook and cranny. > > This is really great, and we can't thank all of you, our beta users, > enough for the value you are providing by using the system at this > stage. The "beta" label has been abused lately, with Gmail and Flickr > leaving it on their apps for years - that's not how we mean beta. > What we mean, is that we are actively changing things around in > underlying layers to adapt to the usage patterns we are seeing and the > edge cases users are discovering. > > We have made many significant changes and improvements lately, and > some users have experienced reliability issues while those changes > were being made, particularly the last week or so. On the plus side, > we can say with certainty that the platform is more and more robust > every day, and out of 9,000+ users, only a handful have been impacted > by our remodeling. For those of you who were affected, we sincerely > apologize. All of our efforts are going into assuring a stable > platform. > > We have a really large vision for Heroku moving forward, and have only > just begun to implement it - we have many many exciting things in > store for you. Before we get to them though, we have to get a few > things right in the foundation of the platform, and that's what we've > been focussed on. That's also what you've all been so vitally helping > us with. > > Thanks again to everyone who has used Heroku, sent us feedback, or > commented here - you are the driving force behind Heroku. We are now > expanding the Heroku team, and working on a bunch of things we can't > wait to tell you about, so we hope you'll all stay tuned... > > As always, please feel free to post to this list or email us > privately. While sometimes we can't respond immediately, we read and > value every single email. > > - James > > > On Apr 10, 2008, at 8:32 PM, stephan wrote: >> >> It's been working for me. >> Stephan >> >> On Apr 10, 6:05 am, Ed Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Started to add this to the Google apps thread, but decided to raise >>> it. >>> >>> Is Heroku Going to Work? >>> >>> Trying to stay positive, yet right now, we're seeing multi-hour >>> outages closer to daily than to weekly. I can't even start highly >>> limited pre-alpha testing with that sort of uptime. >>> >>> Is there reason for hope before summer? >>> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Heroku" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
