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This seems just obscenely convenient. Is there any other PAAS product out there that offers abstractions this sugary-sweet yet so powerful?
This is actually pretty similar to what we've got so far internally at ep.io, albeit without the procfile and with a slightly more complex definition instead.

We're even running things like Redis instances off of a similar codebase, albeit one modified so the >1 server case is different.

Edit: Oh, and of course we're not exactly as open and launched as Heroku are. Just pleased to see that other people think it's a sensible way to build this stuff!

I don't know what awesomeness could possibly be contained within parts 2, 3 or 4 to make this seem any better. Heroku is doing some incredible things.
What kind of resources are allocated to each dyno? Could you, say, run a Solr server from a worker dyno? What about some other custom service that uses a lot of memory? Are they hard or soft limits? This sounds really cool, but it doesn't really tell you much about what this is suited for; especially given how easy it is to devour memory in Ruby.
You can't run a Solr server because (1) present limits are 300MB RAM hard, and (2) disk is transient. There's a solr addon though.