I'm working with a Python-based library called "datasette" that makes it easy to search SQLite databases. I'm trying to push more than 1.5GB worth of SQLite databases, 535MB compressed, to Heroku but I get this error when I run datasette publish heroku.
Compiled slug size: 535.5M is too large (max is 500M).
How can I work around the slug size limits?
There is no way to get around Heroku's slug size limits, and there doesn't appear to be any way to use Datasette with a client-server database.
Either reduce the amount of data you're trying to ship or find another host.
Google Cloud Run is a very inexpensive alternative to Heroku which doesn't have size limits. You can use it with Datasette like this: https://datasette.readthedocs.io/en/stable/publish.html#publishing-to-google-cloud-run