Answering your questions about Heroku routing and web performance
It seems to me that Heroku is still failing to understand (or at least cop to) the fact that the switch from intelligent to randomized routing was a loss of a major reason people chose Heroku in the first place.<p>A lot of Heroku's apparent value came from the intelligent routing feature. Everybody knew that it was harder to implement than random routing, that's why they were willing to pay Heroku for it.<p>Nobody's arguing random routing isn't easier and more stable; of course it is.<p>The problem is that by switching over to it, Heroku gave up a major selling point of their platform. Are they really blind enough not to know this? I have a hard time believing that.<p>It seems to me the real way to make people happy is to discount the "base" products which come with random routing and make intelligent routing available as a premium feature. Of course, people who thought they were getting intelligent routing should be credited.