Iron.io @ BoxWorks 2012
Iron.io is proud to be a part of the Partner Alley at BoxWorks 2012. The conference is Oct 7-9 and has an impressive set of speakers and topics. Tues, Oct 9th is Developer Day and we’re excited to be a part of it. Here’s a brief description of what’s happening that day. Developer Day is a…
Read MoreIron.io @ Big Data Hack Day
Iron.io is putting in some time at the Big Data Hack Day this weekend in San Francisco. A number of teams working with a number data sets to solve some hard challenges. The event was put on by the AngelHack and Hackathon.io folks and had a concentrated set of sponsors, all suited to working out…
Read MoreNew Feature: Auto Retry for IronWorker
Overview IronWorker now has an auto-retry feature that, if enabled, will automatically retry your tasks if they error out. You can set the number of times it should retry and the delay between retries. Usage While uploading your worker, simply set the retries and retries-delay parameters: iron_worker upload my_worker –retries 5 –retries-delay 10 That example…
Read MoreWeb Crawling at Scale with Nokogiri and IronWorker (Part 2)
This is the second part of a two-part post on using IronWorker with Nokogiri to do web crawling at scale. The first blog post can be viewed here. Other resources for web crawling can be seen on our solutions page as well as this post on using IronWorker with PhantomJS.
Read MoreGuest Post: Using IronCache as a Persistent Key Value Store for Real-time Chat
While IronCache is a great option for caching, it can also be used to persist data more permanently. There are dozens of great uses for a persistent key/value store, however, we’ll be building a simple chat app with Sinatra using IronCache as our datastore. This is a guest post by JP Silvashy, CTO of Motionloft.…
Read MoreWeb Crawling at Scale with Nokogiri and IronWorker (Part 1)
This is a two-part post focusing on using Nokogiri and IronWorker to crawl websites and process web pages. Part two can be seen here. For other resources on web crawling, see our solutions page as well as this in-depth article on using IronWorker with PhantomJS. Web crawling is at the core of many web businesses.…
Read MoreElastic, Highly Available Backend for Delayed Job: IronMQ
Want an easy, scalable, highly available, zero maintenance Delayed Job backend? Look no further. Here’s a Delayed Job (DJ) backend gem that uses IronMQ. You can set it up in minutes and never have to worry about it again: Delayed::Job IronMQ
Read MoreIron.io @ Box Hackathon (#redefiningwork)
The Iron.io community team just got back from the #RedefiningWork | Box Hackathon this weekend. It was a fantastic event with over 40+ teams spread across a large room and featured a rich set of API sponsors included SendGrid, Twilio, Parse, TokBox, Firebase, Mashery, and Iron.io. Most the teams used the Box APIs to show…
Read MoreIron.io @ eCommerce Hack Day
Last weekend the DevEx team at Iron.io was at the eCommerce Hack Day in New York City. It was hosted by Dwolla with help from Etsy and features lots of great API sponsors and a terrific set of applications. Here’s an article from @betabeat that gives you a glimpse of the energy at the event. The top hacks that used Iron.io…
Read MoreIronWorker’s Most Requested Feature is Here: Max Concurrency
Overview Too many lemmings and you’ve got a problem. Being able to limit how many worker tasks can run at once has been one of the most requested features of IronWorker and it is available now! There are many reasons this feature is so important, here are a few of the more common use cases…
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