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simpletouchon Better Queuing Metrics With Updated New Relic Add-On

Any word on the status of the gem on the Bamboo stack? We have deployed a couple time today, but our NewRelic gem version is still 3.5.3 and being on Bamboo, have no control over which version is used.

simpletouchon Direct Multipart Uploads to S3 in Rails

I've tried looking for something exactly like this before to no avail. Really awesome assuming it can deliver!

That said, being more transparent in the Readme on Github about the browsers that are currently supported and that plan to be supported would be appreciated. Blob is only Chrome 21+, Firefox 13+ and IE 10+ according to MDN (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/DOM/Blob), and judging by the "FileBlob API is not supported" comment under the TODO section, there isn't any backwards compatibility yet. How far back are you planning on supporting?

simpletouchon Heroku's Ugly Secret: The story of how the cloud-king turned its back on Rails

This is something that I have been struggling with the past long while. Very troublesome when a dyno cycles itself (like they always will at least every 24 hours), as the routing layer continues to send it requests, resulting in router level "Request Timeouts" if it takes too long to restart.

Especially difficult to diagnose when the queue and wait time in your logs are 0. What is the point of these in the logs if it never waits or queues?