Heroku Dyno/Worker Scaling

Question

Heroku allows you to add and remove dynos and workers on the fly and charges you per second that each is used. Is it possible to set up my app so that it can add/remove dynos and workers from itself depending on the load it's under via some sort of heroku api?

Answer 1

For scaling worker dynos:

• https://github.com/meskyanichi/hirefire - open source
• http://hirefireapp.com/ - service in public beta now