pedro/delayed_job
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Database backed asynchronous priority queue -- Extracted from Shopify
8 mentions on Hacker News by 6 people: 0 stories, 8 comments · first 2010-08-27 · latest 2011-05-26
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…Heroku and... it's written by a Heroku employee. It's regularly mentioned on the mailing list too. https://github.com/pedro/delayed_job/tree/autoscaling
comment by hopeless · 2011-05-26 · in HireFire - The Heroku Worker Manager -
…Heroku and... it's written by a Heroku employee. It's regularly mentioned on the mailing list too. https://github.com/pedro/delayed_job/tree/autoscaling
comment by hopeless · 2011-03-28 · in Show HN: our Startup Weekend project - autoscale your Heroku dynos & workers -
Pedro's DJ fork[1] has worked quite well for me. What didn't go well with it for you? [1] https://github.com/pedro/delayed_job/tree/autoscaling
comment by aaronbrethorst · 2010-12-16 · in Auto Scale your Heroku Apps with Hero Scale -
an addon might be overkilled. try the heroku gem. you can check out the example here: http://github.com/pedro/delayed_job/tree/autoscaling for worker, you might have to track the number of jobs in your queue. for dyno, you might have to…
comment by siong1987 · 2010-09-14 · in Heroku: Announcing the Add-on Provider Program -
They do for their background workers, but not the dynos. http://github.com/pedro/delayed_job/tree/autoscaling
comment by arfrank · 2010-09-14 · in Tell HN: I accidentally ran up a $1000 Heroku bill -
…in the background. I use it in conjunction with several hourly cron jobs and it works like a charm. http://github.com/pedro/delayed_job/tree/autoscaling
comment by aaronbrethorst · 2010-09-14 · in Tell HN: I accidentally ran up a $1000 Heroku bill -
…on heroku took me about 20 minutes and it has worked flawlessly ever since. The repo is here: http://github.com/pedro/delayed_job/tree/autoscaling
comment by aarongough · 2010-08-27 · in How to Run Background Jobs on Heroku for Free -
…processing--which should equate to hundreds or thousands of jobs--every month for a few nickels. http://github.com/pedro/delayed_job/tree/autoscaling Pedro is a Heroku employee, so this use is totally fine by them, although the branch is…
comment by wuputah · 2010-08-27 · in How to Run Background Jobs on Heroku for Free