HireFire - The Heroku Worker Manager

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How fast do Heroku workers come up and start crunching? I'd consider porting my worker code to Ruby (right now it's in Clojure) if it meant I could bring it up in seconds.<p>And they're billed per minute or per second?

Very cool. Though I don't see myself needing the hosted version for a while, I can see how it would be useful for people who need tight control over the scheduling of their job queue.

I might just have skipped something o heroku's docs, but is there any similsr service/app to allow spinning dynos automagically as needed (in traffic peaks)?

Sweet! Any plans to provide this as an add-on in Heroku?

What happens when Heroku bans requests coming in from your IP address?<p>I actually think it would be reasonable and justifiable for them to do it too, given that you are preventing a revenue aspect of their business model.<p>Heroku's pricing has always seemed VERY fair and generous to me - it costs them money to provide the service even at the free tier but rather than charging by cost lineally they charge based on value. If you need to start using Workers then you probably are deriving a larger degree of value and so it makes sense for them to charge for that.<p>Their model seems fair to me, and is what gives them the ability to offer the free tier.<p>I'm all for disrupting big businesses, and yes, Heroku is now part of SalesForce. But their pricing is what I call "nice guy" pricing and as a community we should be supporting that, not undermining it.