Autoscaling AWS Elastic Beanstalk worker tier based on SQS queue lengthWe are deploying a Rails application (for the Hydra-in-a-Box project) to AWS Elastic Beanstalk. Elastic Beanstalk offers us easy deployment, monitoring, and simple auto-scaling with a built-in dashboard and management interface. Our application uses several potentially long-running background jobs to characterize, checksum, and create derivates for uploaded content. Since we’re deploying this appl
