Message Queues & Workers: the Heart of Modern Infrastructure
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Increasingly, message queues and workers are intertwined with the language of modern infrastructure. You might rely on explicit solutions like IronMQ or IronWorker. You might not. Whether you do or don’t is irrelevant: MQs and workers are in everything these days.
MQs and workers are hidden heroes, quietly powering a lot of the technology that many of us rely on. They’re core components in programming languages, MVC frameworks, and even web servers.
As a result, when making infrastructure decisions a good understanding of both MQs and workers is essential. The white paper below will take you from a fuzzy understanding to a well-versed conceptualization for both MQs and workers.
Download the latest white paper from Iron.io: a Refresher on Message Queues & Workers.
Give it a read and let us know what you think!
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