Laravel 4 + IronMQ Push Queues = Insane Goodness
Laravel is an increasingly popular PHP framework with a strong and growing following. If you’re a PHP developer, it’s a framework to seriously explore if not dig in and put to good use. The design principles are centered around a clean framework that uses a simple, expressive syntax.
Read MoreIron.io Joins OpenStack to Drive Open Cloud Message Queues
Iron.io is now an OpenStack supporter. This may not appear all that unusual – given the top companies originally behind the initiative plus the growing numbers joining – but it is noteworthy for a cloud services company. With most cloud services, it shouldn’t really matter what the underlying IT stack or even what cloud you’re…
Read MoreIronMQ Handling 250M Requests Per Day, IronWorker Executing Over 500K Jobs
This month, Iron.io hit two major milestones in our usage numbers for two of our services. IronMQ is now handling over 250 million requests per day (== 174K per minute == 2,900 per second). This is up from 100 million just three months ago. Also, IronWorker is now executing over 500,000 jobs (tasks) per day.…
Read MoreRelify adds IronWorker to their Stack ➞ Ridiculously Simple Worker Scalability
Relify, a Recommendations as a Service engine, is one of the really cool customers that Iron.io serves. They offer a simple API that eliminates the complexity of developing a recommendation engine –which means you can greatly increase your relevance to your users. Terry Horner is the Co-Founder and CEO of Relify. A recent blog post of his…
Read MoreIronWorker API Outages – Post Mortem
Starting around 9:45 PT on April 6th, the IronWorker API started having issues where requests to the API would not receive a response and timeout. The issues were intermittent over the next few days with short outages followed by hours of normal operation. The cause of the issues were a couple infrequently used queries that…
Read MoreIron.io @ New York Hackathons (Hack Upstate and UB Hacking)
Iron.io is excited to be a sponsor at two upcoming hackathons in New York. Both are in upstate New York is showing lots of cool tech activity lately. This is great for us because it gives us an opportunity to connect with some awesome projects, teams, schools, and organizations. Hack Upstate Hack Upstate is a weekend…
Read MoreHow We Went from 30 Servers to 2: Go
When we built the first version of IronWorker, about 3 years ago, it was written in Ruby and the API was built on Rails. It didn’t take long for us to start getting some pretty heavy load and we quickly reached the limits of our Ruby setup. Long story short, we switched to Go. For…
Read MoreCloud Messaging Protocol: AMQP vs HTTP
We saw a recent post from GitHub about removing the AMQP service from GitHub Services and passed it around the team as an item of interest. Got to talking later on that evening away from the keyboard and realized it has bigger meaning than just a side note. Recent GitHub Blog Post…
Read MoreIron.io + OpenShift : PaaS 2.0 for the Enterprise
Iron.io is pleased to announce we are now a developer partner on OpenShift. OpenShift is Red Hat’s auto-scaling Platform as a Service (PaaS). Red Hat has a rich history when it comes to technology and large IT systems and, with OpenShift, they’re on a serious path to make history happen again, this time in the…
Read MoreIron.io @ API Strategy Conference (NYC)
Iron.io will be in NYC this week at the API Strategy Conference. It was originally scheduled for November but Hurricane Sandy introduced a change in plans. It’s being put on by Kin Lane (API Evangelist) and the people at 3Scale. It’s on Thurs/Fri, Feb 21-22nd and is expected to draw a capacity crowd (site says it’s…
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