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Re: Show HN: Dynosaur, An autoscaler for Heroku using Google Analytics Live

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Post by werkshy »

dylandrop wrote: post #3
werkshy wrote: post #2

Dynosaur author here, if anyone has questions.

Have you done any comparisons/benchmarks vs Adept Scale, Bounscale, or HireFire? Also why Google Analytics default as opposed to some other service?

We haven't benchmarked against other autoscalers or done any direct comparisons.

Our main motivation was to write something that scaled as we scale manually (i.e. when we get a lot of traffic due to press hits etc, we scale up based on GA realtime data as well as New Relic response times). When we were given access to the GA live API it just seemed like a natural fit.

Re: Show HN: Dynosaur, An autoscaler for Heroku using Google Analytics Live

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Post by werkshy »

sjtgraham wrote: post #5
werkshy wrote: post #2

Dynosaur author here, if anyone has questions.

I have a similar (not auto-scaling) project also named Dynosaur from over two years ago. https://github.com/stevegraham/dynosaur

Woah! So sorry to be treading on your namespace! I did a google search for the 'Dynosaur' and didn't get any hits if I recall. We will put our heads together and come up for a new name for our project later today.

No offense intended: you picked a cool name!

Re: Show HN: Dynosaur, An autoscaler for Heroku using Google Analytics Live

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Post by noodle »

dylandrop wrote: post #3
werkshy wrote: post #2

Dynosaur author here, if anyone has questions.

Have you done any comparisons/benchmarks vs Adept Scale, Bounscale, or HireFire? Also why Google Analytics default as opposed to some other service?

Just speaking off the top of my head here, but services like HireFire ping the Heroku API to poll for information on when to scale. The Heroku API is a little rate limited. You'll probably get a more responsive result using GA.

Re: Show HN: Dynosaur, An autoscaler for Heroku using Google Analytics Live

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Post by BlackDeath3 »

werkshy wrote: post #6
sjtgraham wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have a similar (not auto-scaling) project also named Dynosaur from over two years ago. https://github.com/stevegraham/dynosaur

Woah! So sorry to be treading on your namespace! I did a google search for the 'Dynosaur' and didn't get any hits if I recall. We will put our heads together and come up for a new name for our project later today. No offense intended: you picked a cool name!

Dynosoar?

Re: Show HN: Dynosaur, An autoscaler for Heroku using Google Analytics Live

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Post by lowglow »

werkshy wrote: post #2

Dynosaur author here, if anyone has questions.

Dude! This is so boss. I've been looking for exactly this for Techendo - as you can guess our traffic varies by time of day. Being able to ramp services up as I need them would help tremendously.

Congrats on the launch and thanks for helping!

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