Iron.io Launches New FAQ Video Series
Lately, we have been getting a lot of questions like “what is message queue?” and “how can IronMQ help my business?” Although we’ve been more than happy to address these questions individually, we figured how great would it be to create a video series that touched on a lot of these frequently asked questions. …
Read MoreBeyond The Hype: The Internet of Things
The buzz surrounding the Internet of Things shows no signs of subsiding. At the same time, its potential has grown expediently. This appears to be one case where what is delivered will dwarf the hype. But, what does this mean for you and me? Though the media and analysts talk about enabling Internet data in…
Read MoreSquashing Bugs in The Cloud: How Airbrake uses IronMQ v3
By Reed Allman, Backend Engineer, Iron.io Ah, message queues. Last year we set out to build a better message queue, both for our internal use and to run as a service for customers. If you’ve ever looked into message queues yourself, you’ll know they’re all different, and, conveniently, none of them are ever quite what…
Read MoreHow to Power Intelligent Traffic Systems with IronMQ
Sweden-based Edeva AB develops and markets intelligent traffic systems. Their product Actibump is a dynamic speed bump called Actibump that makes it possible to control the accessibility, flow and speed of traffic in a way not possible with static speed bumps. Actibump consists of one or more road modules that are mounted into a cast foundation and a radar…
Read MoreAn Easier Way to Create Tiny Golang Docker Images
Overview Atlassian just posted a blog post about creating Static Go binaries with Docker on OSX which shows how to make a tiny little Docker image (~6MB total) with your Go program inside. When I read it, I thought “this is cool… but way too complicated”. I’ve been using Docker a lot lately and knew…
Read MoreHow to Cross Compile Go Programs using Docker
There are several ways to cross compile Go programs, but the way we’re going to show you is awesome because you don’t have to install any libs or anything. That said, you do need Docker installed, but you already have that anyways, right? We use this to create our Iron.io command line tool binaries. You…
Read MoreHow to Deliver Massive Volumes of Sports Scores and News to over 12 Million Mobile Users at Bleacher Report
Bleacher Report (B/R) is one of the leading sports news sources in the country. Second only to ESPN, Bleacher Report is a growing force for team-specific sports content, commentary, and real-time event coverage. B/R’s goal is to deliver a comprehensive experience for sports fans and foster engagement with favorite teams and topics across all major…
Read MoreProject Thor Will Deliver First True Hybrid IronWorker Solution
Today, Iron.io announced Project Thor, which is developing the world’s first hybrid job processing system. This is unlike anything we’ve done to date. Unlike previous IronWorker technology, Project Thor is architected to deliver the power of Iron.io to any server in the world in minutes. With Project Thor, the Iron.io IronWorker Docker container is deployed…
Read MoreNo lock in, thanks to Docker
Flexibility and the freedom to choose are among the core tenets at Iron.io. For those who have been following Iron.io posts for some time, we’re sure you’ve read a number of the Docker-related developments we released over the past year, including the previous blog post that IronWorker supports custom Docker images. This is awesome not…
Read MoreTreasure Data and IronWorker (repost)
Overview Our friends at Treasure Data wrote a blog post about data collection in Ruby and how to run multiple data collection tasks in parallel (or scheduled) using IronWorker. The example from Treasure Data demonstrates what it takes to build a simple logging application in Ruby with IronWorker to manage and log the output to…
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