Running Go on IronWorker (reposted)
Going Go: Running Go Programs in IronWorker We came across a great post by William Kennedy on running Go tasks in IronWorker. It’s a detailed article that had a few of our developer evangelists a bit envious in the care and detail it takes in walking developers through the process. (Using IronWorker is not difficult…
Read MoreIronCast 1: Introduction to IronWorker – IronWorker 101 Part 1/4
In a series of four IronCasts, we will provide a high-level introduction to using IronWorker. IronWorker is an easy-to-use scalable task queue that gives cloud developers a simple way to offload front-end tasks, run scheduled jobs, and process tasks in the background and at scale. These videocasts will cover core concepts including: Deploying a worker…
Read MoreHow Untappd Reduced App Response Times with Iron.io
[This post is part of a series of customer success stories that Chad Arimura is putting together highlighting key customers and how they are using Iron.io to do some pretty big things.] Untappd is a mobile location based service for beer lovers that allows users to log, rate and discover new beers, venues and people.…
Read MoreGo After 2 Years in Production
After running Go for two years in production at Iron.io, I wanted to share our experience/feelings about it. We were one of the first companies to use Go (golang) in production and we didn’t know what to expect in the long run, but so far, so great.I talked a little about about this in a previous post…
Read MoreEvent Handling with .NET, RaventDB, and IronMQ
The other day we blogged about a map-reduce contribution from the Iron.io community. Here’s another great contribution from an Iron.io user which highlights handling commit transactions within a database all the while coordinating downstream events using a message queue. Jef Claes is a developer in Belgium that has written a few things about IronMQ in…
Read MoreMap-Reduce Capabilities and Super Easy Concurrency (via Alan deLevie and IronResponse)
We came across a great contribution the other day from Alan deLevie that makes using IronWorker for a map-reduce pattern even easier than it already is. (Love seeing tweets announcing additions to the growing list of Iron.io community addons.) I just wrote a gem that lets you write map-reduce style code using @getiron: https://t.co/49DNyLrXey. Makes…
Read MoreIronMQ Fan-out Support
You can now add queues and workers as subscribers to your IronMQ queues so now a single message post can be pushed onto multiple queues and/or start IronWorker tasks. This is often referred to as “fan-out” and opens up a lot of interesting possibilities such as: Multiple consumers of a single message. Better decoupling by…
Read MoreReal-time Logging for IronWorker
Overview One of the most common feature requests we get for IronWorker is the ability to view logs in real-time while your workers are running. Until now, you had to wait for your IronWorker tasks to finish before being able to view the log and it can be pretty frustrating to try to debug your workers…
Read MoreUsing IronMQ for Delayed Processing and Increasing Scale (repost from Rackspace Blog)
Here’s a post of ours on using IronMQ to increase scale that recently appeared on the Rackspace Developers DevOps blog. Definitely worth checking out if you’re looking to scale out background processing and quicken the user response loop.
Read MoreYii + IronMQ = Yiiron → Giving a Powerful PHP Framework Even More Juice
Yii is a high-performance PHP framework designed for developing scalable applications. It is a well proven and stable framework with a large following. Yii comes with rich features – MVC, ActiveRecord, internationalization, caching, authentication, role-based access control, scaffolding, testing, more. All these features translate into drastically reduced app development times, more readable code logic,…
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