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Legible + efficient SQL with CTEs
Thanks to Jonny Hughes for the base image! Howdy! I’m Paul, and I’m one of the newer faces here at iron.io. My plan is to blog, champion local meetups, and empower developers. That last one is a whiz-bang business term for “help folks learn how to do dead-simple job processing.” Today, I’ll blog about an…
Read MoreUsing IronWorker to Power Custom Service Integrations
The rise of the API economy in recent years has also given the integration economy a much needed breath of new life. What was once a painful process of dealing with proprietary formats and clunky middleware, has now become a streamlined process via openly consumable cloud-native REST APIs. As such, a new breed of services…
Read MoreThe Easiest Way to Develop with Go — Introducing a Docker Based Go Tool
Overview Via Medium While trying to make a drop-dead simple example for running Go programs on IronWorker, I realized there’s just no simple way for us to point someone at an example repo with Go code and have them up and running in a few minutes. This can be done in other languages fairly easily…
Read MoreWhat is a Worker???
Today, Iron.io sales engineer/teacher Yaron Sadka continues our FAQ video series by answering IronWorker related questions. In the following two videos he guides us through: What is a Worker? and What you use a Worker for? Stay posted for more of these FAQ video to come. Click here if you have any questions or want to…
Read MoreThe Workloads of the Internet of Things
I must say my favorite part about researching the Internet of Things has to be the mind blowing stats. Just a couple from the arsenal… we already have more connected devices on the planet than humans, and every two days we create more data than all of human history up to 2003. The predictions are…
Read MoreIron.io Launches New FAQ Video Series
Lately, we have been getting a lot of questions like “what is message queue?” and “how can IronMQ help my business?” Although we’ve been more than happy to address these questions individually, we figured how great would it be to create a video series that touched on a lot of these frequently asked questions. …
Read MoreBeyond The Hype: The Internet of Things
The buzz surrounding the Internet of Things shows no signs of subsiding. At the same time, its potential has grown expediently. This appears to be one case where what is delivered will dwarf the hype. But, what does this mean for you and me? Though the media and analysts talk about enabling Internet data in…
Read MoreSquashing Bugs in The Cloud: How Airbrake uses IronMQ v3
By Reed Allman, Backend Engineer, Iron.io Ah, message queues. Last year we set out to build a better message queue, both for our internal use and to run as a service for customers. If you’ve ever looked into message queues yourself, you’ll know they’re all different, and, conveniently, none of them are ever quite what…
Read MoreHow to Power Intelligent Traffic Systems with IronMQ
Sweden-based Edeva AB develops and markets intelligent traffic systems. Their product Actibump is a dynamic speed bump called Actibump that makes it possible to control the accessibility, flow and speed of traffic in a way not possible with static speed bumps. Actibump consists of one or more road modules that are mounted into a cast foundation and a radar…
Read MoreAn Easier Way to Create Tiny Golang Docker Images
Overview Atlassian just posted a blog post about creating Static Go binaries with Docker on OSX which shows how to make a tiny little Docker image (~6MB total) with your Go program inside. When I read it, I thought “this is cool… but way too complicated”. I’ve been using Docker a lot lately and knew…
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