IronMQ + EngineYard
We’re pleased to announce IronMQ is now a preferred add-on on the Engine Yard platform. IronMQ joins IronWorker on Engine Yard to let developers do even bigger things with their applications by providing industrial-strength ways to scale out processing and pass messages between independent processes.
Read MoreIron.io + eCommerce Hack Day (Dwolla/Etsy)
Iron.io is excited to be a prize sponsor of the upcoming eCommerce Hack Day. It’s put on by Dwolla and Etsy and is the first-ever New York City hackathon focused on the ecommerce space. It’ll be held August 4-5 at the AlleyNYC offices in midtown Manhattan. eCommerce Hack Day Building an ecommerce application has a lot of moving pieces…
Read More.NET Just Got Some Iron Behind It
IronWorker now supports .NET so you can run .NET code at scale. Let your .NET workers process big data, send massive notifications, collect data from API’s, schedule tasks, etc. All in the cloud, no servers required. Here’s a quick Hello Worker example so you can see how easy it is to get started.
Read MoreIron.io + Box Hackathon
Iron.io is excited to be a sponsor of the upcoming Box Hackathon. The theme is Redefining Work and it’ll be held on August 11-12. Hundreds of developers will be there looking to build the next great piece of business software.
Read MoreServerless PhantomJS with IronWorker
PhantomJS is a headless WebKit with Javascript API. From it’s website, “It has fast and native support for various web standards: DOM handling, CSS selector, JSON, Canvas, and SVG.” In other words, PhantomJS is a great solution for things like web crawling/scraping, headless website testing, etc. The perfect match for IronWorker.
Read MoreGuest Post: Iron.io + Team Healthify = Hacking Change in Healthcare
Sabrina Atienza and George Ramonov are emerging experts in the areas of big data and healthcare information. This is their story from xHack 2012, a hackathon sponsored by RadiumOne and via.me. Hello world, we’re two aspiring hackers from UC Berkeley: Sabrina Atienza and George Ramonov. We comprised Team Healthify at xHack 2012 held this past June. From…
Read MoreThe Iron.io Console (HUD) Version 4 Released – Better all around
The New HUD The latest update to the Iron.io user interface, otherwise known as HUD, is live. Taking into account all the great user feedback we’ve received, we strived to make this release easier to use and nicer on the eyes. Here are some of the major changes:
Read MorePowerful Email Infrastructure with IronWorker, ActionMailer, and SendGrid
Against most predictions, email has stood the test of time and remains one of the most common and effective forms of communication. This is particularly true in the world of web applications where the flow of information from app to user is constant. Ruby on Rails is one of the leading stack choices for building…
Read MoreIron.io + xHack = Grand Prize Winner
Congrats to Talk to the Future, winner of the $5000 grand prize at xHack 2012 (#xhack)! A one-person team built it using Heroku, Twilio, and Iron.io.
Read MoreSpikability – An Application’s Ability to Handle Unknown and/or Inconsistent Load
Neo Handling Load I’ve been in many conversations recently about how an application can handle spiky behavior. More importantly, how to handle it without a bunch of wasted resources that sit idle most of the time just to handle the spikes. There are a bunch of applications where this is a very typical use case, for instance:
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