Posts by Iron
Anti-Pattern: Lots of Scheduled Jobs
IronWorker provides an easy way to schedule jobs in the cloud without being tied to a particular server. Think Cron in the cloud.)
Read MorePost Twitter Updates to HipChat using SimpleWorker – No Server Required
We use HipChat for internal communications at SimpleWorker and one of the great things about it is that it has a nice API allowing you to do some cool things like post messages to a chat room programmatically. One thing I wanted to be notified about was when someone mentioned SimpleWorker on Twitter and what better…
Read MoreHow to Build a Serverless Search Engine with SimpleWorker and IndexTank
Our friends over at IndexTank recently posted an article on how to create a search page using IndexTank and SimpleWorker. SimpleWorker to gather data from a remote service, in this case Plixi, and IndexTank to index that data for searching. SimpleWorker is great for collecting and keeping data up to date because you can schedule a…
Read MorePattern: Creating Task-Level Workers at Runtime
Overview A type of topic appearing more and more frequently in StackOverflow and Quora are questions on general architecture and app design. We came across one the other day on approaches to queuing and scheduling workers. A good worker pattern – based on what we’ve seen and done – is to chunk the work (and…
Read MoreMongoSF Was Awesome
Had a great time at the MongoSF conference last week. Meghan Gill, Melia Jones, Max Schireson and the rest of the 10gen team put on a remarkable one-day event for all things Mongo and NoSQL. Some great companies presenting and displaying. MongoHQ, MongoLabs, DotCloud, Cloud Foundry were just a few.
Read MoreQuintupled Capacity Over the Past Week
Over the past week, we have seen tremendous usage growth on SimpleWorker. Our queues were getting backed up and our poor little workers just couldn’t keep up. Well we threw some horsepower at the problem… lots of horsepower, and now we’re running smooth again. Sorry for those who had extra long wait times, we’re growing…
Read MoreWorkers + NoSQL
Chad Arimura will be speaking at the MongoSF conference next Tuesday, May 24th. He’ll be showing off the combination of SimpleWorker and MongoDB. As databases moves to more elastic and sharded NoSQL solutions like MongoDB, more and more processing moves from the data tier to the application tier. This shift makes background processing queues an…
Read MoreShiny New User Interface Now Live
We’ve completed a major overhaul of the SimpleWorker interface and it is now live. The new interface is reorganized and redesigned for a much better user experience allowing you to manage and monitor your workers/jobs more effectively. Here are some sample screens:
Read MoreMore Power to the Workers! Huge Performance Upgrade Went Out Last Night
Performance is one of our primary goals for SimpleWorker and we’re happy to announce that we pushed out some major infrastructural changes last night that show some huge improvements in run times for all workers across the board. Here are before/after results for a particular customer’s hourly usage.
Read MoreSimpleWorker Talk at Sydney Ruby on Rails Meetup, April 12
If you’re in or around Sydney, Australia tomorrow, be sure to check out the talk on SimpleWorker at the Ruby on Rails Oceania Meetup.
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