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Comment on Ask HN: Thoughts on using Heroku for "heavy-lifting"?

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Heroku is definitely up to the job. I've stored 100s of thousands of tweets a day using Heroku workers and a larger Amazon RDS instance.

Have a look at scaling your Resque workers up for your daily task, then back down once you're done. I haven't used the following technique, but it looks sound:

http://blog.darkhax.com/2010/07/30/auto-scale-your-resque-wo...

Actually already using this, works great!

Thanks for the input, I'll stick with Heroku for now!

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