Read/Write Sharding with Heroku Postgres

2014-03-31 Thread Jack Royal-Gordon
I have an application that has a little db updating in the foreground (mostly user configuration), and a great deal of db updating in the background (scraping information off the web for 12 hours per day). I'm starting to see the performance of the foreground web requests be affected by the back

Re: Read/Write Sharding with Heroku Postgres

2014-03-31 Thread Harold Giménez
Hey Jack, A common approach in ruby apps is using the Octopus gem. An approach to making it work seamlessly on Heroku can be found on Dev Center: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/distributing-reads-to-followers-with-octopus -Harold On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 11:29 AM, Jack Royal-Gordon wrote: