How We Monitor Our 1000+ RPS Heroku App

A breakdown of what tools we use to monitor our large-traffic application on Heroku

How Our Amazon ECS Autoscaling Works

A little look behind the curtains: how Judoscale autoscales Amazon ECS services so quickly

The Best Caching Strategy On The Web

What in the world is "human caching" and what does it even mean?

The Procfile Explained — Examples and Tips

At it simplest, the Procfile is where you declare the one or more processes to be run for your app to function. Heroku’s docs do a great job of explaining the Procfile format, so this post will focus on a bit more advanced usage.

Autoscaling For GoodJob Queues

Judoscale now supports GoodJob, the modern gem for running background jobs in Rails. Learn how to autoscale your GoodJob queues in minutes.

Quick Tip: Fix ActiveRecordConnection Pool Errors For Good

Connection pool errors are a Rails configuration issue (not a database issue). Some simple configuration steps will fix these errors almost entirely.

Heroku Preboot Gotchas: Read This First

Are zero-downtime deploys worth the trade-offs? This post explores the real-world advantages and gotchas with Heroku Preboot.