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 <turingatemyhams...@gmail.com> 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: turingatemyhams...@gmail.com > gchat: turingatemyhams...@gmail.com > msn: matthew_poc...@yahoo.co.uk > 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 heroku@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > heroku+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > 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 heroku@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to heroku+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en.
