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How to Build an ETL Pipeline for ElasticSearch Using Segment and Iron.io
Overview ETL is a common pattern in the big data world for collecting and consolidating data for storage and/or analysis. Here’s the basic process: Extract data from a variety of sources Transform data through a set of custom processes Load data to external databases or data warehouses Segment + Iron.io + Elasticsearch = A…
Read MoreNew FFmpeg IronWorker Stack For Easy Video Processing
FFmpeg is the leading cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. Dealing with audio and video can eat up resources, making the activity a great fit for IronWorker by moving the heavy lifting to the background. In the past, usage of FFmpeg with IronWorker would require that our users include and install…
Read MoreOrchestrating PHP Dependencies with Composer and IronWorker
Package your dependencies on IronWorker using composer Overview This is a tutorial describing how to include and use the PHP package management tool Composer with IronWorker. Composer is a tool for dependency management in PHP. It allows you to declare the dependent libraries your project needs, and it will install them in your project for…
Read MoreHow Cine.io Uses Node.js and IronWorker to Handle Their Background Processing
The following is a guest blog post by Thomas Shafer describing how cine.io deploys their workers within Iron.io to handle all of their background processing. Cine.io is the only true developer-focused live streaming service. We offer APIs and SDKs for all mobile platforms and language frameworks and let developers build and ship live-streaming capabilities with…
Read MoreMessage Queues for Buffering: An IronMQ and Python Case Study
Using IronMQ and Python to as a Buffer between Systems Connecting systems and moderating data flows between them is not an easy task. Message queues are designed for just this purpose – buffering data between systems so that each can operate independently and asynchronously. Here’s a short article on using IronMQ to buffer a CMS…
Read MoreA Better Mobile Compute Cloud: NodeJS + Iron.io (repost from ShoppinPal)
There are number of tools for creating mobile apps but the one area that can be challenging is handling the background processing that takes place within mobile applications. A popular mobile app, ShoppingPal, is using Iron.io to handle its background processing needs with great results. They wrote a recent post on their success in moving…
Read MoreIron.io hosting CoreOS meetup – Speakers include Brandon Philips from CoreOS and Sam Ward from Iron.io
Iron.io will be hosting a CoreOS meetup on this Monday, Sept. 8th. Brandon Philips, CTO of CoreOS, will be a speaker as will representatives from DigitalOcean and Citrix. Sam Ward, Senior Ops Engineer at Iron.io, will also be giving a talk. We’re at the early stages of using CoreOS but we’re liking what we’re seeing.…
Read MoreSegment.io adds Iron.io as an endpoint for message queueing
Iron.io + Segment.io = Integration Goodness IronMQ has just been added as an endpoint for message queueing within Segment.io. Segment.io provides a single gateway that lets developers, marketers, and analysts pipe logs, metrics, user actions, and other key app data to hundreds of other applications and tools. The Segment.io API acts as a control for…
Read MoreHow One Developer Serves Millions of Beers: Untappd + Iron.io
Untappd – The Mobile App for Beer Lovers Untappd provides a mobile check-in application for beer lovers. Their application has been downloaded by over a million users and on any given night, they can register over 300,000 individual checkins and social sharing events. The Untappd application lets users record their beer selections, share their likes…
Read MoreGo, IronWorker, and SendGrid at Gengo (a repost)
Shawn Smith from Gengo recently wrote a post on their use of Go, the programming language that we also use at Iron.io for our backend services. (Gengo is a popular people-powered translation platform based in Tokyo and San Mateo.)The post discusses several of the apps where they’re using Go including a deployment app and several…
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