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One of the (only) advantages of App Engine over Heroku is that they auto-scaled. Will you guys be doing that?

• shykes 16y ago
  We're taking one step at a time. First we'll give you metrics to help you decide when to scale up or down. Eventually we'll offer to take that decision for you, with a configurable ceiling. In our experience, for most customers 10-second manual scaling is just as good as auto-scaling.
  • pbiggar 16y ago
    I don't know what 10-second manual scaling means. Our problem with Heroku was that we didn't know how many units to allocate, and ended up way over-spending. But if we had tweaked it to be just right, we would have been screwed by an unexpected surge.
    • shykes 16y ago
      It means that you type 'dotcloud scale' and wait 10 seconds :) We offer resource usage data, so you can make an informed decision when scaling. You are correct that a very sudden surge can still screw you - but we are preparing an alert feature to help you mitigate this.
      • pbiggar 16y ago
        I don't mean to be negative, but I like your product a lot less without autoscaling. If it's hard to do, then it'll be nearly impossible for me; if its not hard, then I'll be annoyed that I'm writing code that you guys could have trivially written.