Hi, We are trying to develop a heroku app. Its data is stored in postgres. From the control panel of the app, admins can kick of jobs that do bulk mainipulation of the database. These processes potentially use a lot of resources, which doesn't work very well at all on heroku. For example, one of the analysis runs may need 2G memory for some matrix math. The web front-end is light-weight and scalable.
We considered offloading the heavy lifting to an AWS instance. However, this will need to talk to the same postgresql database as the heroku app does, and the docs say, "No, connecting to your database from machines outside of Heroku is not supported". The only other option we can see is to host an AWS instance in the same datacenter that our heroku app interacts with through REST, and manage our own database and vm lifecycle, but then we aren't really gaining much over hosting the entire she-bang ourselves. If you have any ideas, I'd love to hear about it. Are there any guides to integrating components deployed on AWS with heroku? Any war stories? Thanks, Matthew -- Dr Matthew Pocock Integrative Bioinformatics Group, School of Computing Science, Newcastle University mailto: [email protected] gchat: [email protected] msn: [email protected] irc.freenode.net: drdozer skype: matthew.pocock tel: (0191) 2566550 mob: +447535664143 -- 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.
