Posts by Iron
Schedule Email with SendGrid and Iron.io (repost)
Using IronWorker to Schedule Emails in Node.js, Ruby, and PHP Schedule Email with SendGrid and Iron.io Nick Quinlan from SendGrid just put out a really nice post on using IronWorker to schedule email using SendGrid. And what’s even better is he shows how to do it in three languages: Node.js PHP Ruby
Read MoreLaracon, Laracast, LaravelSF – Oh My!
Laracon 2014 is invading New York City on May 15-16th and we’re calling all Artisans! Laravel is a modern PHP framework built for large enterprise applications as well as simple JSON APIs. It’s possible to write powerful controllers or slim RESTful routes. Laravel is the perfect framework for jobs of all sizes.
Read MoreIronMQ Long Polling
Another one of our most requested features is now out in the wild: long polling. Long polling reduces the number of requests you need to make on an empty queue by not returning immediately when there are no messages available. Instead, IronMQ will wait until a message becomes available or until the “wait” time has…
Read MoreBuilding an Analytics Engine using MongoDB, Go, and Iron.io
Building a Relevancy Engine Using MongoDB and Go On the heels of a recent post on powering intelligent traffic systems using MongoDB and Iron.io comes a presentation on building an analytics engine using MongoDB, Go, and Iron.io. William Kennedy gave a presentation on his recent work at GopherCon and friends of ours from Sourcegraph were kind enough to write up details…
Read MoreGoing (Almost) Serverless with Iron.io
The NoisyTwit App This is a guest post by Dieter Van der Stock, a full-stack developer in Antwerp, Belgium. In it, he talks about his experience building NoisyTwit and how the combination of HTML/JavaScript, PHP, OAuth.io, and Iron.io made for a simple but scalable solution. Modern app development doesn’t need to be complicated as…
Read MoreHow Docker Helped Us Achieve the (Near) Impossible
Docker Solved a Key Problem Ever since we started Iron.io, we’ve been trying to solve a problem: how to keep our IronWorker containers up to date with newer language runtimes and Linux packages. For the past two years, IronWorker has been using the same, unchanged run-time environment. That is until a couple of weeks…
Read MoreIron.io will be at GopherCon (Apr 24th-26th)
GopherCon 2014 Iron.io is a sponsor of GopherCon and we’ll have several of our team in attendance. The conference is in Denver, CO and runs from April 24-26. We jumped in early as a sponsor as we’re a big user of Go and we’re glad we did. The attendance will be off the charts as…
Read MoreIron.io Joins Red Hat’s OpenShift Marketplace
The OpenShift Marketplace Iron.io is pleased to announce its IronMQ and IronWorker solutions are part of the OpenShift Marketplace. The marketplace is an important component to Red Hat’s OpenShift Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) in that it lets developers combine the benefits of enterprise PaaS with tightly integrated, complementary solutions – all without losing time on technology…
Read MoreHow Edeva Uses MongoDB and IronMQ to Power Real-time Intelligent Traffic Systems
Edeva AB develops and markets intelligent traffic systems. Their product is a dynamic speed bump called Actibump. The selective system makes it possible to handle the compromise in accessibility, traffic flow and speed control, which is not possible with static speed bumps. Actibump consists of one or more road modules that are mounted into a…
Read MoreUsing Iron.io Workers for Large Scale PHP posting with Laravel (a repost from Scott Wilcox)
Scalable Workers in Laravel One of the fun parts about working at Iron.io is being able to connect with developers working on some great projects. One of these is Scott Wilcox, the developer of Tweekly.fm. His service posts Last.fm events to Twitter and has been growing in popular the last several months. Scott wrote a great post…
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