Posts by Iron
Hackathons: Beyond the Prizes
Here in San Francisco hackathons are common place — you can find one most every weekend.The basic premise of a hackathon is to show up, build an app in 24-48 hours, and go home. All food and drink is taken care of and sleep is frowned upon, though a couple hours of nap time is suggested. The…
Read MoreHow Munzee Keeps Gameplay Real with IronMQ
This post is part of a series of customer success stories highlighting key customers and how they are using Iron.io to do some pretty big things. Munzee is a 21st century scavenger hunt that utilizes iOS, Android, and Windows Mobile apps to create a modern-day, high-tech adventure game. Munzee QR Codes and NFC Tags are captured…
Read MoreMessage Queues, Background Processing and the End of the Monolithic App (reposted from Heroku blog)
Here’s a post of ours on message queuing and background processing that we published on the Heroku blog the other day. Definitely worth checking out if you believe like us that distributed multi-tier architectures are the future of production-scale cloud applications. Iron.io Guest Post on Heroku Message Queues, Background Processing and the End of the Monolithic…
Read MoreGoSF Talk: Travis Reeder on Go after 2 Years in Production
Travis Reeder, Iron.io’s CTO, gave a talk recently at a GoSF meetup on Iron.io’s use of Go. We’re big proponents of Go, using it for all our backend components and have written or talked about our experiences in a number of places (here, here, and here). Travis’ talk here is a compilation of a number…
Read MoreMore Go Use in Production (Pivotal CF)
Travis Reeder, Iron.io co-founder and CTO, was at DevBeat 2013 on Tuesday talking about Iron.io’s use of Go language for our API services and backend functionality. (We use Ruby and other languages for workers and our app framework but Go has a special place here for things that need to run fast and handle high…
Read MoreExosphere 2013 (aka party in Las Vegas with Iron.io, Airbrake, Copper.io, and Storm Ventures)
Tighten your seat-belts and get ready to enter the Exosphere. Iron.io, Airbrake.io, Copper.io and Storm Ventures are all sponsoring a party at the AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas next week. The party will be on Wednesday the 13th, 8pm at the Palazzo Hotel. Sign up to get the exact location of the event. Click…
Read MoreAirbrake Agent for New Relic (produced by Iron.io)
Iron.io created an Airbrake agent for the New Relic platform. You can see the full post about it on the Airbrake site. Here’s an excerpt. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Airbrake NewRelic Add-on Iron.io has created a great new Airbrake agent for the New Relic platform. The agent grabs data from your Airbrake account and uploads it…
Read MoreIron.io @ DevBeat 2013 (talking about Go)
DevBeat 2013 – Nov 12-13th Iron.io be at the DevBeat 2013 conference in San Francisco on Nov 12-13th. It’s a great conference for experienced developers and includes a number of top developer speakers – including Travis Reeder, Iron.io’s CTO. Travis will be talking about Iron.io’s use of Go in production. It’s been two years…
Read MoreIronSharp — .NET Client Library for Iron.io (a contribution from a user)
IronSharp is a great new contribution from a long-time supporter and user of IronMQ, IronWorker, and IronCache. Jeremy Bell created IronSharp to provide updated access in .NET to all Iron.io services. It’s a simple solid library that wraps the API calls for IronMQ, IronWorker, and IronCache and includes support for the latest Iron.io features. (It…
Read MoreIronCast 4: How to connect to your database from IronWorker – IronWorker 101 Part 4/4
In a series of four IronCasts, we will provide a high-level introduction to using IronWorker, an easy-to-use scalable task queue. In this series, we will be using an example application which is written in Rails. However, the same concept applies to every language or framework.
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