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I'm going to try modulus.io later on today.

Obviously I don't have an opinion yet but my reason for giving it a try is that I've been told you get a free database instance in the same data center as your node instance, which is obviously good from a latency point of view.

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I'm very curious modulus. Anyone else have any experience using them?

I just used them for a small project and was really happy with it. They provide just a couple environment vars attached to the process object and you're good to go.

I was talking to some of their employees at nodeconf this year and they explained that since Heroku only routes one request to an instance at a time, it essentially blocks on each request and you never get to actually leverage the concurrency of node.

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