A Better Mobile Compute Cloud: NodeJS + Iron.io (repost from ShoppinPal)
There are number of tools for creating mobile apps but the one area that can be challenging is handling the background processing that takes place within mobile applications. A popular mobile app, ShoppingPal, is using Iron.io to handle its background processing needs with great results. They wrote a recent post on their success in moving…
Read MoreIron.io hosting CoreOS meetup – Speakers include Brandon Philips from CoreOS and Sam Ward from Iron.io
Iron.io will be hosting a CoreOS meetup on this Monday, Sept. 8th. Brandon Philips, CTO of CoreOS, will be a speaker as will representatives from DigitalOcean and Citrix. Sam Ward, Senior Ops Engineer at Iron.io, will also be giving a talk. We’re at the early stages of using CoreOS but we’re liking what we’re seeing.…
Read MoreSegment.io adds Iron.io as an endpoint for message queueing
Iron.io + Segment.io = Integration Goodness IronMQ has just been added as an endpoint for message queueing within Segment.io. Segment.io provides a single gateway that lets developers, marketers, and analysts pipe logs, metrics, user actions, and other key app data to hundreds of other applications and tools. The Segment.io API acts as a control for…
Read MoreHow One Developer Serves Millions of Beers: Untappd + Iron.io
Untappd – The Mobile App for Beer Lovers Untappd provides a mobile check-in application for beer lovers. Their application has been downloaded by over a million users and on any given night, they can register over 300,000 individual checkins and social sharing events. The Untappd application lets users record their beer selections, share their likes…
Read MoreGo, IronWorker, and SendGrid at Gengo (a repost)
Shawn Smith from Gengo recently wrote a post on their use of Go, the programming language that we also use at Iron.io for our backend services. (Gengo is a popular people-powered translation platform based in Tokyo and San Mateo.)The post discusses several of the apps where they’re using Go including a deployment app and several…
Read MoreIron.io Increases Message Size in IronMQ
Message Size Increases from 64KB to 256KB Large message sizes are now available within IronMQ. We have increased the message size from 64KB to 256KB. This increase was originally in response to some uses cases around XML but also allows the service to handle almost every need possible when it comes to messaging. The increased…
Read MoreIron.io Releases Dedicated Worker Clusters
IronWorker Now Offers Dedicated Worker Clusters Dedicated workers clusters are now available within IronWorker. Sets of workers can be provisioned to run tasks on a dedicated basis for specific customers. The benefits include guaranteed concurrency and stricter latencies on task execution. This capability is designed for applications that have a steady stream of…
Read MoreIron.io Releases High Memory Workers
IronWorker Can Now Handle Larger Tasks We’re pleased to announce the availability of high-memory workers within IronWorker. This new capability will provide greater processing power to tackle even more ambitious tasks. The added boost to the IronWorker environment is perfect for tasks that consume large amounts of computing resources – tasks that might include big data…
Read MoreIron.io Adds Derek Collison as an Advisor – Former SVP/Chief Architect at Tibco, Architect of Cloud Foundry
We’re happy to announce that we recently added Derek Collison to the Iron.io advisory board. Derek is Founder/CEO of Apcera and an industry veteran and pioneer in large-scale distributed systems and enterprise computing. He has held executive positions at Google, VMware, and TIBCO Software and so is a great resource for technical and business insight. Derek CollisonIron.io…
Read MoreIntroducing IronMQ Enterprise
Cloud-Native Message Queuing Now Available On-Premise Message Queuing for Public, Private, and Hybrid Clouds Today we’re excited to release IronMQ Enterprise, our cloud-native message queuing technology for large enterprise and carrier-grade workloads. IronMQ Enterprise features a more advanced backend persistence layer, improved message throughput, and latency, and, for the first time, deployment options for on-premise,…
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