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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

Mentions per year 8 mentions · busiest year 2010 (6)
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  1. …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
  2. …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
  3. 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
  4. 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…
  5. They do for their background workers, but not the dynos. http://github.com/pedro/delayed_job/tree/autoscaling
  6. …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
  7. …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
  8. …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…