Iron.io Launches on Pivotal Cloud Foundry Platform
Iron.io is proud to announce that IronMQ and IronWorker are now available as add-on services on Pivotal’s web-based Platform-as-a-Service (PAAS) which is available at https://run.pivotal.io and runs the open source Cloud Foundry platform.
Run.pivotal provides app developers with a powerful option to rapidly deploy and scale new applications. The recent launch of Pivotal CF – a commercial distribution of Cloud Foundry from Pivotal that is deployable on VMware’s vSphere IAAS platform – adds an industrial-strength option for deploying applications on cloud infrastructure, providing choice for business owners who want a combination of on-premise, cloud and hybrid application hosting solutions.
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| James Watters Cloud Foundry at Pivotal |
“IronMQ and IronWorker adds a proven suite of developer focused tools to the Cloud Foundry eco-system,” said James Watters, Head of Product Cloud Foundry at Pivotal. “This is a great win for developers who want to use the best of breed tools to build the next generation web and mobile apps. It augments the breadth of options available today, such as the current AMQP-based message services with additional message queueing and worker services designed for the way developers build products.”
About IronMQ and IronWorker
IronMQ and IronWorker are elastic cloud services that scale to handle whatever messages and workloads you send it.
IronMQ is a reliable message queueing service perfect for building multi-tier applications. The service features push queues, error queues, message retries, alerts, and a number of other capabilities that are critical for separating internal app components and interfacing with third-party services. IronMQ supports asynchronous messaging, work dispatch, load buffering, database offloading, and more. Accessible through HTTP/REST API calls and client libraries, IronMQ is easy to use, highly available, and requires no setup or maintenance.
IronWorker is an elastic task queue / worker service that scales out the processing to let you focus on building applications that scale. Every production-scale application needs to do work in the background. IronWorker gives you an easy and reliable way to tens, hundreds, or thousands of tasks at once. Queue tasks from your app, run tasks via webhooks, or schedule jobs to run later. IronWorker supports all common languages including binary packages, offers task retries, and sophisticated task monitoring.
The Growth of Multi-Tier Architectures
Whether it’s deploying, monitoring, scaling, or making fail-safe, the base cloud stack has long been one where app servers and storage solutions are the core. This view is a valid one but only a partial picture. The reason is because cloud applications have become much more complex.
Instead of starting with a two-tier application – the application tier and the database tier – developers are building multi-tier architectures from the onset. They are including components such as message queues, worker systems, key-value data caches, job schedulers, and other services to offload workloads from the main request/response loop and allow applications be more responsive and do more processing.
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Production-scale cloud applications, for example, use message queues to provide ways to connect processes within systems, interface with other systems, buffer activity to databases, and power service-oriented architectures. They use worker systems to offload processing to the background, scale out processing across many concurrent tasks, or run tasks on regular schedules. Examples of these types of workflows can be creating thumbnails, sending emails and notifications, or hitting multiple apis to get data to display.
The Advantages of Cloud Services
Ready-to-use cloud-base services for message queueing and task processing create tremendous efficiencies and agility. By plugging into elastic cloud services, developers no longer have to stand up and maintain these infrastructure components. They do not have to make them redundant and provision them in multiple zones and regions.
Making message queuing and task processing readily available for Pivotal developers means that they get to build advanced processing capabilities into their applications from the start. With simple API calls, they can create queues, send and receive messages, and process hundreds or thousands of tasks, not just from day one but from minute one.
And they can do it without having to worry about managing servers or dealing with infrastructure or system concerns. The benefits of cloud-based messaging and background/async processing include:
- Speed to market: applications and systems can be built much more quickly
- Reduced complexity: reduced risk/overhead in critical but non-strategic areas
- Increased scalability: ability to seamlessly scale throughput and functionality
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| Chad Arimura CEO, Iron.io |
"Iron.io offers high-scale HTTP-based messaging and task processing services that accelerate the way cloud developers build distributed systems and create service-oriented architectures. These capabilities alongside the Pivotal Cloud Foundry platform is a powerful combination for developers creating production-scale applications."
Pivotal Cloud Foundry + Iron.io = A Powerful Combination
Just as VMs have made it easier to create new applications, elastic on-demand message queues and asynchronous processing will power another era – large-scale distributed cloud-based systems where message queuing and high-scale task processing is abstracted away from servers and where ease of use, reliability, monitoring, and features specific for the cloud are key.
Developers win because they will be able to build and scale applications much more quickly, at a lower cost, and with far less complexity. Iron.io is honored to be partnering with Pivotal in that we share the same mission in that is to drive this shift in computing and deliver this greater ease and much higher value.