"Heroku sends them as a normal course of operations." Wow, I didn't actually know that. Makes me glad I didn't pick Heroku recently for one of my mini-projects.

"Heroku sends them as a normal course of operations." Wow, I didn't actually know that. Makes me glad I didn't pick Heroku recently for one of my mini-projects. It requires long-running processes. I guess Heroku "dynos" are more suited for "worker" type jobs, then. In which case, sending the TERM signal to all processes isn't necessarily a really bad way of notifying the worker to shut down. Although, we are in 2014, and I don't see why they can't easily come up with a more robust solution. Even if it's in the form of a "shut-down" process, or giving the worker more than 10s to shutdown.