[josegonzalez]

Dokku maintainer here.

You may wish to look into a message processing system in your language of choice and run that as a daemon in Dokku. We have plugins for various datastores, and commonly I see folks just connect their worker processes to that. It's much lighter weight than spawning new containers for each workload.

[hedgehog]

In my case spawn overhead is negligible relative to the jobs themselves, my existing experience with AWS Batch has been pretty good. I took another look at the Dokku documentation and extending `run:detached` would work well enough, though maybe it's time for me to revisit Airflow or something in that direction.