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I'm a pretty big noob in the scaling world, but as I read the article I kept thinking, "With services out there like Heroku, isn't scaling something of a solved
by adammichaelc 16y ago
I'm a pretty big noob in the scaling world, but as I read the article I kept thinking, "With services out there like Heroku, isn't scaling something of a solved problem (at least with a Rails app)?" Do web startups still manually handle the scaling process?
- adammichaelc 16y agoFor the downvoters, I'm genuinely curious about the questions I asked.
- dagw 16y agoWell one reason is that Heroku and the likes don't allow for all possible options and configurations you might run into. If your app requires some obscure back end software then you kind of have to host (at least part of) it yourself.