[meskyanichi]

Hey Chad, great to hear! I also (despite having created HireFire) still have use-cases for SimpleWorker, however in my case they will likely be for my VPS' rather than on Heroku. On Heroku (even though there isn't a UI, unless you use Resque), it's already a partially managed service to host workers, it runs from the same compiled slug as the dyno's use so all the credentials / env variables are all shared among dyno's and workers, no need to re-apply configuration and such.

I think for me the hardest part was getting it to work the first time, waiting quite a while for the jobs to run to see if I managed to get it to work. The merge_gem is a huge improvement, though, handling credentials and re-connecting databases and other things are quite a hassle to set up (imo). I have to say that once it's all set up, and if the 30-60 start-up issue is gone, that it does seems like a beast for processing a lot of jobs concurrently and is exciting.

I'm definitely still looking forward to seeing future progress of SimpleWorker. So please do keep up the good work!