Re: Resque vs Appoxy SimpleWorker

2011-08-29 Thread Keenan Brock
to send them in minutes rather than hours with enough workers, but I'm guessing now that's not the case. Would Appoxy Simpleworker let me fire off 20,000 email jobs in a queue, that could be sent off in minutes rather than hours? Or would Resque handle this and I just haven't

Re: Resque vs Appoxy SimpleWorker

2011-08-29 Thread Travis Reeder
Hi Stephen, You could definitely get increased throughput using SimpleWorker as you would instantly be going from one server to hundreds to run your jobs. (disclosure: I created SimpleWorker). If you decide to do it, there is one suggestion that will make it work a lot faster/better for your

Re: Resque vs Appoxy SimpleWorker

2011-08-28 Thread Stephen Cremin
. Would Appoxy Simpleworker let me fire off 20,000 email jobs in a queue, that could be sent off in minutes rather than hours? Or would Resque handle this and I just haven't configured it properly. Or is it something inherent in rake that is slowing batch jobs down in general. Although, it's

Resque vs Appoxy SimpleWorker

2011-08-26 Thread Stephen Cremin
allow me to send them in minutes rather than hours with enough workers, but I'm guessing now that's not the case. Would Appoxy Simpleworker let me fire off 20,000 email jobs in a queue, that could be sent off in minutes rather than hours? Or would Resque handle this and I just haven't configured

Appoxy SimpleWorker

2011-02-28 Thread railsnerd
This has appeared on the Add-Ons page But a google search reveals nothing Anyone know who provides this service? Would be good to know more details. I'm looking for a cost effecting way to manage image resizing, and this could be ideal. -- You received this message because you are subscribed

Re: Appoxy SimpleWorker

2011-02-28 Thread railsnerd
Ah thanks for that Not clear it is suitable for image manipulation... as that kind of task is quite beefy, requiring memory, grunt and awkward libraries like imagemagick -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Heroku group. To post to this group, send email

Re: Appoxy SimpleWorker

2011-02-28 Thread Travis Reeder
Hi there, I am with Appoxy, the creators of SimpleWorker, and you should be able to run any kind of job you want. Obviously some jobs need more horsepower so we have plans with bigger servers too. Feel free to contact me directly and I'll see what I can do to make it work for you. Regards,