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On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 6:08 PM, Martin Wawrusch <mar...@wawrusch.com> wrote: > xeround.com comes to mind, and perhaps simpleworker.com (iron.io) > > > On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 9:05 AM, Kerri Miller <kerri...@kerrizor.com>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 >> <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. >> >> > > > > -- > 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. > -- Cashton Coleman, CEO SuccessBricks, Inc. c...@cleardb.com IL: +972 54 562 2193 US: 1 469 828 3439 x500 -- 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.
