Question

I have a web dyno that handles all my web requests. If a request comes in that is a long-pooling request how to you pass that connection off to a worker dyno?

Ex. Request to example.com/long-pooling handled by web dyno needs to be passed to worker dyno to free up the web dyno for more requests.

Thanks.

Answer 1

You don’t exactly pass on the request. It sounds like you want a queueing library like RQ or Celery. Essentially you queue up the long running request and then on the client side you poll for updates

• https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/python-rq
• https://github.com/celery/celery/