It seems that the delay is in the variance in the length of the different jobs. Having slow jobs is generally not a good idea, and I can imagine that they are h

It seems that the delay is in the variance in the length of the different jobs. Having slow jobs is generally not a good idea, and I can imagine that they are happening for uncommon tasks. When you are running a 100+ servers it seems like a simple answer would be to think about these uncommon tasks differently. Options would be for prioritizing them differently, showing different UI indicators, and also wanting them happening on a separate set of machines. Doing these would mean that an intelligent routing mechanism would not have as much use. Am I wrong here? I do believe that Heroku should document such problems of theirs more clearly, so that we know what challenges that we are facing as we develop applications, but in this particular case, it seems that they do have the right plumbing, and that they just need to be used differently.