November 16, 2023

📊 The Judoscale Newsletter - November 2023 Edition

November News 🗞️

Greetings, dear Judoscale reader. It’s been a couple of months since we’ve written with our latest updates, but we’re excited to announce a few things. As Ohio has gotten chillier and winter looms ahead, your Judoscale team has been working diligently to make sure your application’s automatic scaling is precise, effective, and smooth. Here’s what we’re currently excited about:

• Been thinking about jumping to Amazon ECS? Autoscaling for ECS is out of beta and publicly available, and we’ve already helped teams save tens of thousands of dollars ...per month. But... how does it work?
• If you’ve been thinking about Render instead, we’ve got you covered there too. Autoscaling for Render is now also publicly available and several teams are already enjoying its fruits
• Want to chat? We’re starting Weekly Office Hours! We want to make ourselves available to connect with you and chat about scaling, tools, settings, Rails, development... it’s all on the table!

Btw, have you seen our 1-minute quick-start video? Even for veteran Judoscale (and Rails Autoscale 😉) users, there are some real nuggets of knowledge here! And it’s a great snippet to share with your team so they can quickly understand the tool. Check it out:

Amazon ECS Autoscaling is Live!

After several months in development and beta-testing with several of our previously-on-Heroku customers, we’re thrilled to open our Amazon ECS Autoscaling up to the public. It’s live!

We can’t stress enough how helpful this tooling is for ECS customers. Judoscale’s simple setup and straightforward configuration brings just a touch of that Heroku-level simplicity to the wild world of AWS architecture. And, of course, the autoscaling itself is a godsend for folks that have been running a set-number of services in their clusters. We just recently had a conversation with an AWS team that runs 40+ background job queues and had at least one service spun up for each queue all the time even though their average job traffic in most of those queues is zero.

So, it’s worth mentioning that Judoscale’s unique feature of being able to spin background job services/processes down to zero instances until another job hits the queue can be a major win for the more-distributed job/queue techniques many AWS teams employ. Don’t spend money on idle instances!

But How Does it Work?

If you’re interested in reading up on our new ECS Integration, some details on how the sausage gets made, and the specifics around the connections, permissions, and API calls we leverage, check out our latest blog post: How Our Amazon ECS Autoscaling Works.

Render Autoscaling is Live!

We’re just as excited to release our autoscaling for Render, too! This similarly brings the full power and full feature-set of Judoscale to the Render platform, ready to scale your Services according to your request, and job, queue times.

We’ve seen fantastic results, both in terms of stability and cost-savings, from our early-access Render customers as we finished building all of the details. We commonly market a “50% or more” cost savings when using Judoscale, and we’re glad to see that metric still holding true on the new platforms.

We’re Holding Office Hours

Taking some inspiration from Mike Perham, we’re going to begin having open Office Hours every Friday. This will be an open invitation and space to come chat about scaling, platforms, software development, or any other topic, really. We’re available for your questions!

Judoscale’s Weekly Office Hour

• Why: So the Judoscale team can be a helpful resource 🙂
• When: Every Friday at 12pm Eastern Time
• How: Let us know via a quick email ahead-of-time that you’ll be there
• Where: Click here to join (please turn on camera and wear headphones)

Hope to see you there!

Cheers!

Thanks for reading to the end of this edition — we both hope you and yours have wonderful holidays ahead. 2024 is approaching so quickly!

— Jon & Adam