💾 The Judoscale Newsletter - February 2024 Edition
February’s Greetings ❤️
Greetings, Judoscalers everywhere! We’re back again with another update from the depths of the Judoscale kitchen — cooking up new features, new guides, and new strategies for keeping your queue times low.
The Pen is Mightier...
We’ve been writing! We’re always on the lookout for interesting topics or experiences to cover in our writing as developers using these tools and systems day-in and day-out. No fancy marketing department here! Just two developers that want to share some thoughts 😁
We Were Wrong: Don't Use Heroku Scheduler
After years of dedicated use, we decided to turn away from Heroku Scheduler for greener pastures. It served us well, but we don’t recommend it. Read why.
How We Monitor Our 1000+ RPS Heroku App
There are lots of posts out there about individual tools or little chunks of the stack that are worth watching... we wanted to take a different approach and explain more holistically how we monitor our medium-large application end-to-end. Read here.
How to Run Code (Safely) on Repeat Forever
We have this chunk of code that runs quickly (less than a second) but we want to run it on repeat forever in a safe, fast way. There are a few known strategies for doing that, but they each have trade-offs. We take a deep dive into these ideas in this article. Read more.
Heroku (Almost) Free: Understanding Eco Dyno Hours
Starting a new side- or hobby-project soon? We wanted to simplify Heroku’s recent changes to their free and base-tier plans. While running an app on Heroku for free has ended (RIP!), you can still run an app for very cheap. And that’s still value. Check it out.
Scaling All the Platforms!
Our Render and Amazon ECS customer cohorts have been growing! We’re proud to say that Judoscale has been stably and powerfully scaling many Amazon ECS clusters and Render services — some to over a hundred instances at a time.
We also recently centralized our account management in Judoscale. Your personal Judoscale user account can now be a member of (and manage) teams of varying platforms as your projects dictate! So no need to keep multiple sets of credentials in your password manager.
At Your Service...
Finally, just a reminder that we’re available for you every Friday at 12pm Eastern in our Office Hours. Just send us an email to let us know ahead-of-time that you’ll be there, then click this link to join the session! Thanks to ChatGPT for this great representation of this 😅
Cheers!
— The Judoscale Team
P.S. Did you get a chance to see our 60-second quick-start video? Even if you’re a long-time user, there’s some good bits of knowledge in here! Check it out before you go 😁