Question on Scaling Workers

[J.Rogers]

Hello Posit Team and Community,

First of all, I’d like to express my appreciation for Posit Connect Cloud. I’ve found its seamless integration with GitHub and Positron for deployment extremely convenient. It really streamlines the workflow from coding to publishing.

I have a question regarding scaling. Is there a way to increase the number of workers available in Posit Connect Cloud? For instance, when running Shiny apps or APIs that handle heavier traffic, having more workers would help manage concurrent users more effectively.

If this is not yet configurable in the cloud version, are there recommended approaches or upcoming features related to scaling worker processes?

Thanks in advance for any guidance!

[alex_chisholm]

Hello, we're so glad to hear that the deployment process with Connect Cloud is going well for you.

In terms of workers, we expect that within the next month or so that you'll be able to have more control on worker and general scaling settings, similar to the options available on shinyapps.io Documentation - Applications

I'll circle back here once that is released.

Alex

[J.Rogers]

Hi Alex,

Thanks for the update. That’s great news! I’ll look forward to having more control over the worker and scaling settings once they’re released.

In the meantime, could you please share the default number of workers and worker load factor for the Basic and Enhanced plans in Posit Connect Cloud?

Best regards,

[alex_chisholm]

Of course. Here are the current default worker settings for new deployments:

• Max Worker Processes: 10
• Worker Load Factor: 0.5
• Max Connections: 20
• Connection Timeout: 3600 seconds
• Read Timeout: 3600 seconds
• Startup (init) Timeout: 60 seconds
• Idle Timeout: 5 seconds

We'll post updates when available to the Connect Cloud forums.