xeround.com comes to mind, and perhaps simpleworker.com (iron.io)
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 9:05 AM, Kerri Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > A couple quick ideas to explore.. > > - is the memory limit the same on workers as dynos? > > - could you thread out the computations to different workers? > > - don't use Heroku's postgres, but an Amazon RDS or similar 3rd-party > DB, to get around the connection limitation > > -k- > > On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 8:20 AM, Matthew Pocock > <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. > > > > -- > 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. > > -- 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.
