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Iron.io Increases Message Size in IronMQ

By Iron | July 28, 2014 |

Message Size Increases from 64KB to 256KB Large message sizes are now available within IronMQ. We have increased the message size from 64KB to 256KB. This increase was originally in response to some uses cases around XML but also allows the service to handle almost every need possible when it comes to messaging. The increased…

Iron.io Releases Dedicated Worker Clusters

By Iron | July 21, 2014 |

IronWorker Now Offers Dedicated Worker Clusters Dedicated workers clusters are now available within IronWorker. Sets of workers can be provisioned to run tasks on a dedicated basis for specific customers. The benefits include guaranteed concurrency and stricter latencies on task execution. This capability is designed for applications that have a steady stream of…

Iron.io Releases High Memory Workers

By Iron | July 16, 2014 |

IronWorker Can Now Handle Larger Tasks We’re pleased to announce the availability of high-memory workers within IronWorker. This new capability will provide greater processing power to tackle even more ambitious tasks. The added boost to the IronWorker environment is perfect for tasks that consume large amounts of computing resources – tasks that might include big data…

Iron.io Adds Derek Collison as an Advisor – Former SVP/Chief Architect at Tibco, Architect of Cloud Foundry

By Iron | July 15, 2014 |

We’re happy to announce that we recently added Derek Collison to the Iron.io advisory board. Derek is Founder/CEO of Apcera and an industry veteran and pioneer in large-scale distributed systems and enterprise computing. He has held executive positions at Google, VMware, and TIBCO Software and so is a great resource for technical and business insight. Derek CollisonIron.io…

Introducing IronMQ Enterprise

By Iron | July 1, 2014 |

Cloud-Native Message Queuing Now Available On-Premise Message Queuing for Public, Private, and Hybrid Clouds Today we’re excited to release IronMQ Enterprise, our cloud-native message queuing technology for large enterprise and carrier-grade workloads. IronMQ Enterprise features a more advanced backend persistence layer, improved message throughput, and latency, and, for the first time, deployment options for on-premise,…

IronMQ Enterprise: Powered by IronMQ v3

By Iron | June 30, 2014 |

Delivering Improved Performance + On-Premise and Hybrid Cloud Options Today we announced IronMQ Enterprise, a set of offerings that includes more flexible configuration options including deployment on-premise and within private clouds as well as improved performance around message throughput and latency. At the heart of this release is IronMQ v3, our latest version of IronMQ.…

Getting Pushy with Symfony2! (guest post)

By Iron | June 25, 2014 |

This is a guest post from Keith Kirk who is VP Engineering at Underground Elephant. Message queues are not a new concept – neither is Push Notifications and surely not HTTP Posts for that matter. However, when you combine these ideas you have a very flexible queueing system. Sprinkle in a little bit of Symfony’s EventDispatcher……

Evan Shaw speaking at Gopher SummerFest

By Iron | June 23, 2014 |

Evan Shaw, one of Iron.io’s top systems engineer, is speaking at the Gopher SummerFest on June 23rd. The event is produced by GoSF, the largest Go language user group in the world, and sponsored by Google and Iron.io. GoSF is approaching 1200 members and comprised of CTOs, engineering heads, system architects, and developers from around…

How HotelTonight uses Iron.io and AWS Redshift to create Ruby-based ETL pipeline (repost)

By Iron | June 3, 2014 |

Creating an ETL pipeline with Iron.io and Redshift Operating at scale in the cloud almost always equates to having a highly distributed system architecture in place to handle workloads by auto-scaling components out horizontally Harlow Ward is a developer at HotelTonight and he put together a great post on how they handle issues of…

Real-time Logging for IronWorker with Logentries (repost)

By Iron | May 31, 2014 |

Real-time logging of workers tasks is a popular feature in IronWorker. We provide an interface to third-party logging components and services which allows you to send your log output to any syslog endpoint and see the output in real-time. Prior to this, you had to wait for your task to finish before being able to view a log…