Using IronMQ as a Celery Broker
We are developers because we love to build stuff. Whether we’re building an e-commerce site, a mobile game, or a network of connected devices, we love the thrill of solving problems and innovating. Modern frameworks that save us time in the plumbing allow us to focus on our own innovations – ultimately making us happier…
Read MoreGame of Nines – Iron.io Uptime Report
The number one core tenet of Iron.io is IronClad Reliability so we put a lot of time and effort into making our services reliable. It seems to have paid off. Our uptime for IronMQ was 100% for the past 30 days and 99.98% for the past 6 months. For comparison, “Gmail uptime is in the range of 99.99 percent –…
Read MoreImprovement to HUD – How to Better Manage Your Tasks
We did a post the other day on improvements we made to the IronMQ HUD to make it easier to manage your message queues. We also made some changes to the HUD to make it easier to manage your tasks and scheduled jobs. Here’s the major changes for the IronWorker HUD.
Read MoreImprovement to HUD – How to Better Manage Your Queues
If you’re an Iron.io user, you’ve probably noticed improvements in our HUD over the last few months. We’ve gotten great input from customers on what they wanted to see and we took that to heart. We also released some new features like push queues and needed a way to bring them out within the dashboard.…
Read MoreProQuest’s Scalable, No Maintenance Cloud Stack
ProQuest chose IronMQ as a key part of their stack while building the website for WorldRiderz, a documentary on the Discovery Channel. They needed a robust, elastic and scalable architecture. Due to the nature of the project, traffic was always going to be patchy, with periods of heavy traffic, followed by idle periods, so controlling costs and being able…
Read MoreCommon Actions on Messages in a Queue
Overview In a previous post, we talked about our ten favorite uses for a message queue. The uses laid out the architectural benefits of putting a message queue in place as a key component within a distributed system. The writers at HighScalability did us one better with their description of a message queue in…
Read MoreIronMQ Push Queues – Reliable Message Delivery for the Cloud
Overview IronMQ Push Queues adds notification capabilities to your queues allowing you to send messages to other systems in a scalable, flexible, and cost-effective way. You simply add subscribers, which are HTTP endpoints, to your IronMQ queues then any message you post to your queue will be reliably delivered to the subscribers. Table of…
Read MorePeek, Touch and Release
IronMQ now supports three new operations: peek, touch and release. These operations give you greater control over handling your messages and here’s a brief explanation of each. Table of Contents: A little background on the message lifecycle Peek Touch Release Achieve Cloud Elasticity with Iron Speak to us to find how you can achieve…
Read MoreQueue Webhook Events with IronMQ Webhook Support
You can now use IronMQ as a webhook endpoint to collect webhook events/messages from third parties. This new feature supports arbitrary HTTP POSTs to an IronMQ queue and it will store the body of the POST in your queue.
Read MoreIronMQ Handles 100 Million Messages a Day
Overview Iron.io reached a key milestone on Christmas Eve this year. IronMQ, our cloud-based message queue, reached its first 100 million messages per day mark. To put this in perspective, Salesforce recently announced it’s handling 1B transactions/day. Twitter has 140MM users tweeting 500MM times a day and Github records 500,000 events per day. Handling 100…
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