Posts by Iron
Need a Mobile Backend? Try OpenShift. (SendGrid article)
SendGrid on Mobile Backend Services SendGrid put out a nice post on their blog the other day on what to look for with mobile backends. Kunal Batra is a developer evangelist at-large for SendGrid and did some work with Redhat’s OpenShift platform recently. In the post, Kunal lays out a simple case for why this platform…
Read MoreHoliday Hack Winners!
After a great holiday season and a minor delay in judging, the results are in! 1st: Iron TicTacToe 2nd: HackerNews Sentiment Analysis 3rd: Iron Unfollow Winner: Iron TicTacToe Built by: David Jones Simple hackathon project to implement “parallel game tree search” for TicTacToe using IronWorker, IronCache, IronMQ, and SendGrid. The parallel algorithm has 2 main parts.…
Read MorePush Queues + Error Queues = Better Queue Processing
Overview IronMQ has had push queue capabilities for a while now. Push queues allow messages/payloads to be pushed to one or more endpoints and is a very popular feature. Within IronMQ push queues, up to 100 subscribers can be added – with the routing being either unicast (pushing to 1 subscriber) or multi-cast…
Read MoreA Reminder App using Ruby, Google Docs, SendGrid, and Iron.io (SendGrid repost)
Nick Quinlan from SendGrid put out a nice post the other day on a simple app he created to email him daily goals. It’s a short post but with some solid code behind it which adds a lot of value in our minds. (It’s one thing talk about tech but it’s another to turn it…
Read MoreQueuing and Processing Your Way To Scalability using Go and Iron.io (reposted)
We came across another great post by William Kennedy on running scaling out applications using Iron.io platform and Go programming language. He wrote an excellent post on using Go with IronWorker several months back. William writes Going Go Programming and so he certainly knows what he’s talking about when it comes to Go. We’re big fans…
Read More#IronHack Showcase
During these holidays We here at Iron.io challenged programmers sipping on eggnog, snowed in, stuck in airports, hanging out in sweatpants, and mellowing out to the third marathon of Home Alone to hack on a project for the holidays. https://www.hackerleague.org/hackathons/the-iron-holiday-hack These are some of the projects we wanted to share with the public! HN Sentiment…
Read MoreHow Kuhcoon uses IronWorker and Node.js to improve social media advertising
[This post is part of a series of customer success stories that Chad Arimura is putting together highlighting key customers and how they are using Iron.io to do some pretty big things.] Kuhcoon offers a suite of tools built around the management and optimization of social media advertising for businesses. They provide two tools – a…
Read MoreHow a simple Node.js project turned into Iron Scheduler (guest post)
This is a guest post from David Hessing, Director of Data Analytics at Appirio, on how a simple project to teach himself Node.js turned into Iron Scheduler, a powerful scheduling tool built on top of IronWorker. The Power of Task Processing in the Cloud [David Hessing] I remember coming across Iron.io’s services and immediately being intrigued. IronWorker…
Read MoreThe Iron.io Holiday Hack
In honor of our hackathon post, we’re hosting a holiday hackathon!
Read MoreWhy Mentor Graphics replaced SQS with IronMQ
[This post is part of a series of customer success stories that Chad Arimura is putting together highlighting key customers and how they are using Iron.io to do some pretty big things.] Mentor Graphics [NASDAQ: MENT] is a leader in electronic design and automation software. They enable companies to develop better electronic products faster and…
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