Gems/Services for autoscaling Heroku's dynos and workers

Question

I want to know if there are any good solutions for autoscaling dynos AND workers on Heroku in a production environment (probably a different solution for each of those, as t

Answer 1

I've recently written a heroku auto scaling system called Heroku Vector:

https://github.com/wpeterson/heroku-vector

It allows you to scale multiple types of dynos based on different traffic sources. It currently supports NewRelic throughout and Sidekiq number of busy threads. As traffic goes up or down, it will scale the number of dynos up or down. It's a daemon process that can be run in its own dyno on Heroku or elsewhere.