IronMQ Enterprise: Powered by IronMQ v3
Delivering Improved Performance + On-Premise and Hybrid Cloud Options Today we announced IronMQ Enterprise, a set of offerings that includes more flexible configuration options including deployment on-premise and within private clouds as well as improved performance around message throughput and latency. At the heart of this release is IronMQ v3, our latest version of IronMQ.…
Read MoreGetting Pushy with Symfony2! (guest post)
This is a guest post from Keith Kirk who is VP Engineering at Underground Elephant. Message queues are not a new concept – neither is Push Notifications and surely not HTTP Posts for that matter. However, when you combine these ideas you have a very flexible queueing system. Sprinkle in a little bit of Symfony’s EventDispatcher……
Read MoreEvan Shaw speaking at Gopher SummerFest
Evan Shaw, one of Iron.io’s top systems engineer, is speaking at the Gopher SummerFest on June 23rd. The event is produced by GoSF, the largest Go language user group in the world, and sponsored by Google and Iron.io. GoSF is approaching 1200 members and comprised of CTOs, engineering heads, system architects, and developers from around…
Read MoreHow HotelTonight uses Iron.io and AWS Redshift to create Ruby-based ETL pipeline (repost)
Creating an ETL pipeline with Iron.io and Redshift Operating at scale in the cloud almost always equates to having a highly distributed system architecture in place to handle workloads by auto-scaling components out horizontally Harlow Ward is a developer at HotelTonight and he put together a great post on how they handle issues of…
Read MoreReal-time Logging for IronWorker with Logentries (repost)
Real-time logging of workers tasks is a popular feature in IronWorker. We provide an interface to third-party logging components and services which allows you to send your log output to any syslog endpoint and see the output in real-time. Prior to this, you had to wait for your task to finish before being able to view a log…
Read MoreSchedule Email with SendGrid and Iron.io (repost)
Using IronWorker to Schedule Emails in Node.js, Ruby, and PHP Schedule Email with SendGrid and Iron.io Nick Quinlan from SendGrid just put out a really nice post on using IronWorker to schedule email using SendGrid. And what’s even better is he shows how to do it in three languages: Node.js PHP Ruby
Read MoreLaracon, Laracast, LaravelSF – Oh My!
Laracon 2014 is invading New York City on May 15-16th and we’re calling all Artisans! Laravel is a modern PHP framework built for large enterprise applications as well as simple JSON APIs. It’s possible to write powerful controllers or slim RESTful routes. Laravel is the perfect framework for jobs of all sizes.
Read MoreIronMQ Long Polling
Another one of our most requested features is now out in the wild: long polling. Long polling reduces the number of requests you need to make on an empty queue by not returning immediately when there are no messages available. Instead, IronMQ will wait until a message becomes available or until the “wait” time has…
Read MoreBuilding an Analytics Engine using MongoDB, Go, and Iron.io
Building a Relevancy Engine Using MongoDB and Go On the heels of a recent post on powering intelligent traffic systems using MongoDB and Iron.io comes a presentation on building an analytics engine using MongoDB, Go, and Iron.io. William Kennedy gave a presentation on his recent work at GopherCon and friends of ours from Sourcegraph were kind enough to write up details…
Read MoreGoing (Almost) Serverless with Iron.io
The NoisyTwit App This is a guest post by Dieter Van der Stock, a full-stack developer in Antwerp, Belgium. In it, he talks about his experience building NoisyTwit and how the combination of HTML/JavaScript, PHP, OAuth.io, and Iron.io made for a simple but scalable solution. Modern app development doesn’t need to be complicated as…
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