August 24, 2023

📈 The Judoscale Newsletter - August 2023 Edition

August Upon Us!

It’s been a busy month over here on the Judoscale team! Aside from trying to stay cool in the Ohio heat, we’ve been at work building new features, new platform integrations, and new explainers for relevant topics in the app development world. Here’s what we want to share / announce this month:

• Amazon ECS Autoscaling Early Access
• Render Autoscaling Early Access
• “How to Fix Heroku’s Noisy Neighbors” (New Feature: The Dyno Sniper)
• “Autoscaling Heroku: The Ultimate Guide”

Let’s dive in!

Amazon ECS Autoscaling Early Access

That’s right, Judoscale now supports autoscaling on Amazon ECS! This one has been in quiet development for a while and we’re thrilled to invite users into our open beta. We fully support autoscaling both web-style and worker-style Services across any/all of your account’s ECS Clusters with full Judoscale functionality — queue-time-based autoscaling, monitoring tools, schedules, etc.

We believe this is the first-in-market framework-integrated autoscaler for Amazon ECS and we’re excited to offer this functionality to many of our users that have migrated away from Heroku but missed autoscaling (especially for background job systems)!

If you’re interested in adding Judoscale to your ECS Clusters and Services, just respond to this email and let us know.

Render Autoscaling Early Access

We subtly mentioned it in our last newsletter, but Judoscale now also supports autoscaling on Render! In fact, our ECS integration was thanks in large part to the developments and abstractions we built in our initial Render proof-of-concept. As with ECS, we fully support both web and worker service autoscaling with all of our tools and features. Bring on the schedules!

We believe this is also makes Judoscale the first non-native / high-performance autoscaling option for Render, too! Especially for users that have migrated from Heroku to Render, this is a seamless transition.

Similar to our ECS integration, if you’re interested in using Judoscale for your Render services simply reply to this email and let us know.

New Guides

Last but not least, we’ve written some great new content for our new website’s Guides list.

The first is “How to Fix Heroku’s Noisy Neighbors” and itself another new feature announcement! Aside from putting forward a three-step path for eliminating any noisy-neighbor issues you may be experiencing on Heroku, we’re offering initial access to The Dyno Sniper. It’s a feature we’ve been running on Judoscale’s dynos for some time but are now looking to expand to our users. It’s definitely worth the full read of the guide, but here’s an image of sniping in action for a single dyno that began experiencing slowness:

The second guide we published is “Autoscaling Heroku: The Ultimate Guide”. This one is a back-to-basics primer on what kind of autoscaling is available for any application on Heroku, including a couple of surprises. After the many years of providing the best autoscaling service on Heroku, we felt that writing a top-level guide on the matter was probably overdue. Just look at all that money flying away!

Cheers!

That’s all we have for you this time around. We’ll catch you on the next month or the next time you hit the “Help” button in Judoscale. (Did you know you can schedule a call with us any time?)

Hope you have a great month!

— Jon & Adam