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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,
by 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 agoI 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 agoIt 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 agoI 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.