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Iron.io @ API:World 2013
Chad Arimura from Iron.io will be speaking at API:World this week. API:World 2013 is part of the DataWeek conference which is being held in San Francisco on Oct 2nd-3rd. Iron.io @ API:World 2013 The API World conference was created with the mission to be a technology-neutral catalyst of connections, knowledge, trust, and business within the developer…
Read MoreIronCast 3: How to rapidly prototype locally with IronWorker – IronWorker 101 Part 3/4
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. In this video, we will show you how to prototype…
Read More7 Reasons Webhooks Are Magic
Around the Iron.io office, I’m known as a bit of a webhook enthusiast. When asked what my favourite features of the Iron.io platform are, our webhook support tend to top my list. (Did you know you can create a message or a task using webhooks, and use push queues as webhooks?) I love the flexible, open architecture webhooks enable. They remind me…
Read MoreIronCast 2: What is a worker file? – IronWorker 101 Part 2/4
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.
Read MoreHow Vextras Integrates Multiple API’s with Iron.io
[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.] Vextras develops applications that help e-commerce store owners simplify their business processes. Their solutions connect online stores with other great SaaS apps like…
Read MoreRunning Go on IronWorker (reposted)
Going Go: Running Go Programs in IronWorker We came across a great post by William Kennedy on running Go tasks in IronWorker. It’s a detailed article that had a few of our developer evangelists a bit envious in the care and detail it takes in walking developers through the process. (Using IronWorker is not difficult…
Read MoreIronCast 1: Introduction to IronWorker – IronWorker 101 Part 1/4
In a series of four IronCasts, we will provide a high-level introduction to using IronWorker. IronWorker is an easy-to-use scalable task queue that gives cloud developers a simple way to offload front-end tasks, run scheduled jobs, and process tasks in the background and at scale. These videocasts will cover core concepts including: Deploying a worker…
Read MoreHow Untappd Reduced App Response Times with Iron.io
[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.] Untappd is a mobile location based service for beer lovers that allows users to log, rate and discover new beers, venues and people.…
Read MoreGo After 2 Years in Production
After running Go for two years in production at Iron.io, I wanted to share our experience/feelings about it. We were one of the first companies to use Go (golang) in production and we didn’t know what to expect in the long run, but so far, so great.I talked a little about about this in a previous post…
Read MoreEvent Handling with .NET, RaventDB, and IronMQ
The other day we blogged about a map-reduce contribution from the Iron.io community. Here’s another great contribution from an Iron.io user which highlights handling commit transactions within a database all the while coordinating downstream events using a message queue. Jef Claes is a developer in Belgium that has written a few things about IronMQ in…
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