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Creating Microservices in Laravel (repost)
We came across a great tech post the other day by developer and writer Alfred Nutile. His post describes a simple process for doing background processing and creating microservices within Laravel, a fantastic PHP framework for modern web developers. Table of Contents Background Processing and Microservices Distributing Workloads in Laravel Achieve Seamless Background Task Processing…
Read MoreHow HotelTonight Streamlined their ETL Process Using IronWorker
HotelTonight has reinvented the task of finding and booking discounted hotel rooms at travel destinations. Designed for last-minute travel planners and optimized for the mobile era, HotelTonight connects adventure-seeking, impulse travelers with just-in-time available hotel rooms wherever they land. This model has the market-enhancing effect of reducing excess inventory of unused hotel rooms, while delivering…
Read MoreCEO Chad Arimura Speaking at IoT Stream Conference in April
Chad Arimura, CEO and Co-Founder of Iron.io, will be speaking at IoT StreamConf conference in April. We’re also sponsors of the event. This conference will bring together architects and builders to discuss best practices and the emerging IoT technology stack. If you want to collaborate with hands-on people solving real IoT challenges, IOT Stream Conf…
Read MoreRoam Directories Goes Serverless With Iron.io and Other Cloud Services
Users expect immediate access to information, and this expectation is no different in the commercial real estate industry. Fast-moving companies need innovative web tools that enable property managers to upload, update and exchange building information with prospective tenants. Roam Directories, founded in 2013, is a relatively new company in an industry filled with established firms.…
Read MoreSuper Easy Serverless Slack Bots
Slack has a great API for building integrations and one of those types of integrations is called a “bot”. Bots are useful tools that can respond to messages the chat users type into a chatroom. For instance you could type in “what is the weather” and the bot would respond with today’s weather. Bots are…
Read MoreThe New Docker Based IronWorker Development Workflow
Overview Creating a simple IronWorker worker can be quick and easy. But if you’ve used IronWorker to build a complex worker, you may have found the experience a bit cumbersome. The reason is that sometimes you just don’t know if your worker will run the same way it does when you run it locally, due…
Read MoreWhy Large Scale Drupal Users Need Iron.io To Increase Application Responsiveness
We’re always pleased to receive stories about how Iron.io products have helped make peoples’ lives easier. This is the story about how Schwartz Media from the land down under, addressed the challenging task of managing and deploying multiple Drupal sites on the Pantheon platform. Owen Kelly is the Director of Technology at Schwartz Media, publisher…
Read MoreIron.io Releases Enhanced Security Package – IP Whitelisting, VPN, and VPC Support
Iron.io is pleased to announce the release of an enhanced security package for our IronMQ and IronWorker platforms. This package includes access to virtual IP addresses and support for virtual private networks (VPN) and virtual private clouds (VPC). Elastic IP Addresses (EIP) – This feature provides access to the list of virtual IP addresses…
Read MoreAn Outside View on Microservices : Agility and Scale
Alex Bakker, a research director at Saugatuck Technology, just put out a pretty good post on microservices entitled Agility, Microservices, and Digital Business. It provides a good overview on the topic of Microservices and is especially strong on what microservices mean to larger organizations and the enterprise. It’s the first of several posts which are part…
Read MoreSmart Endpoints. Smart Pipes. Smarter Microservices.
Overview: This is the second post in a series on microservices. Read our previous post on the service computing environment: The Ephemeral Life of Dockerized Microservices. The use of microservices is a growing trend in application development because it provides an answer to the overhead incurred by monolithic applications. The practice of breaking apart…
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