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http://traffic.libsyn.com/sedaily/autoscaling_edited.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download When an application is using all of its available resources, that application needs to be scaled. Scaling an application means giving it more resources–typically servers. Autoscaling is an engineering practice where an application is automatically given more or less resources based on how healthy the application performance is at a given time. Applications on Heroku have access to autoscaling. Heroku users don’t need
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http://traffic.libsyn.com/sedaily/heroku_kafka_edited.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download Kafka is a distributed log for producers and consumers to publish messages to each other. We’ve done many shows about Kafka as a key building block for distributed systems, but we often leave out the discussion of the complexities of setting up Kafka and monitoring it. Kafka deployments can be a complex piece of software to manage. Tom Crayford is an engineer at
