The "you" were addressed to RG, not your experience. I completely agree that scaling is one of the harder problems in computer science. Most people just run a stateless system and hope for the best, but this is a delicate matter and it is a hard problem.
The hard part being a customer or Heroku is that the problem might be on the other side of the fence. And how do you communicate that in a diplomatic way?
Personally my opinion is something along the lines of "If you use Ruby +rails in that configuration, then you deserve the problem".
The hard part being a customer or Heroku is that the problem might be on the other side of the fence. And how do you communicate that in a diplomatic way?
Personally my opinion is something along the lines of "If you use Ruby +rails in that configuration, then you deserve the problem".