Iron.io Drinkup – Booze Queues’ Edition
In keeping with all the love going around today, wanted to let you know about an Iron.io Drinkup we’re hosting with our friends at Keen IO next week (Wed, Feb 19th). It’ll be at our offices at Heavybit. In keeping with the theme, here are details in the form of some JSON. Drink up. …
Read MoreGo Sessions: Teaching Go to Experienced Devs (via GoSF)
As a result of the growing interest in Go, Travis Reeder and other GoSF organizers have decided to create a program within GoSF to teach Go programming concepts and fundamentals. We’re calling them Go Sessions and they consist of evening guided pair-programming sessions. Iron.io is one of main organizers of the GoSF meetup and we’ve…
Read MoreIron.io Launches IronMQ in Europe
IronMQ is now available in Europe Iron.io is happy to announce today the launch of IronMQ services in Europe. IronMQ EU provides the full functionality of IronMQ as is currently available in the US and is available to the public in general release. IronMQ offers two endpoints in Europe – AWS EU-West and Rackspace-LON.…
Read MoreIron.io Drinkup in NYC
In a couple short weeks, Iron.io will be hosting an Iron.io Drinkup and would love to see developers in NYC there! Who: One of our dev evangelists and YOU! What: Beer and…more beer! Why: To asynchronously chat and hangout …and drink beers Where: TBD – but definitely in the city When: Thurs, Jan 30th –…
Read MoreIronHack Deep Dive: Iron TicTacToe
This past week we crowned a winner for our Iron Holiday Hack. It was a one week virtual hackathon where participants built apps that were useful, beautiful, informative, or just plain cool. David Jones built an awesome little project called Iron TicTacToe that hit the mark on the goals of the challenge. The application was…
Read MoreNeed a Mobile Backend? Try OpenShift. (SendGrid article)
SendGrid on Mobile Backend Services SendGrid put out a nice post on their blog the other day on what to look for with mobile backends. Kunal Batra is a developer evangelist at-large for SendGrid and did some work with Redhat’s OpenShift platform recently. In the post, Kunal lays out a simple case for why this platform…
Read MoreHoliday Hack Winners!
After a great holiday season and a minor delay in judging, the results are in! 1st: Iron TicTacToe 2nd: HackerNews Sentiment Analysis 3rd: Iron Unfollow Winner: Iron TicTacToe Built by: David Jones Simple hackathon project to implement “parallel game tree search” for TicTacToe using IronWorker, IronCache, IronMQ, and SendGrid. The parallel algorithm has 2 main parts.…
Read MorePush Queues + Error Queues = Better Queue Processing
Overview IronMQ has had push queue capabilities for a while now. Push queues allow messages/payloads to be pushed to one or more endpoints and is a very popular feature. Within IronMQ push queues, up to 100 subscribers can be added – with the routing being either unicast (pushing to 1 subscriber) or multi-cast…
Read MoreA Reminder App using Ruby, Google Docs, SendGrid, and Iron.io (SendGrid repost)
Nick Quinlan from SendGrid put out a nice post the other day on a simple app he created to email him daily goals. It’s a short post but with some solid code behind it which adds a lot of value in our minds. (It’s one thing talk about tech but it’s another to turn it…
Read MoreQueuing and Processing Your Way To Scalability using Go and Iron.io (reposted)
We came across another great post by William Kennedy on running scaling out applications using Iron.io platform and Go programming language. He wrote an excellent post on using Go with IronWorker several months back. William writes Going Go Programming and so he certainly knows what he’s talking about when it comes to Go. We’re big fans…
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