Heroku Introduces More Powerful Dynos For Large-Scale Apps
Heroku , the cloud platform Salesforce acquired in 2010, today launched a new class of dyno that has 12 times the RAM and 40 times the CPU power of a regular dyno. In Heroku’s world, dynos are the containers your applications run in, with the most basic ones costing 5 cents per hour. The new performance dynos, which are part of the Heroku XL family that the company is launching with this release, run on machines that are highly isolated from the rest of the Heroku infrastructure. While regular dynos run on a multi-tenant infrastructure, performance dynos do not share their CPUs with other applications. This, the company argues, allows for a “high and consistent quality of service” that allows apps to run faster and with better response times . Heroku argues that some of the largest app on its platform now often exceeds 10,000 requests per second; both Urban Dictionary and headline factory Upworthy run on the platform. In total,...