Iron.io + xHack
Iron.io is excited to be a sponsor of xHack 2012, a pretty cool hackathon in San Francisco June 8-10th. It’s called “Hack to the Future” and, yes, it’s going after a certain Back to the Future vibe. Many of the API partners are centered around photo, video, audio, social and geo-location and so the hacks are…
Read MoreBest Practices: Scalable Image Processing
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Coincidentally, processing an image is about a thousand times more demanding than processing text. As more and more developers look to image processing solutions like ImageMagick to power social, retail, and mobile apps, they will run into many challenges as they try to get it to…
Read MoreIron.io + HackTheMidwest
Iron.io is a sponsor of HackTheMidwest, a hackathon in Kansas City on June 2nd & 3rd. Looks like it’ll be a great event with terrific prizes, sponsors, and 100+ developers from the Midwest. Michael Gelphman from Kansas City IT Professionals is producing it. He has an 8500+ strong membership to draw from so…
Read MoreThe New IronWorker Command Line Interface and .worker Files
We have created a shiny new command line interface (CLI) and a brand new way to define your workers to make uploading your worker code a lot easier and quicker. This should fit much better into the typical developer workflow so you can push to your git repo and upload your workers from the command…
Read MoreIron.io Releases IronCache (Beta)
Iron.io is pleased to announce a soft-launch/beta release of IronCache, a hosted key/value data cache. It’s an elastic cloud-based solution built for storing short-term processing results and passing items between asynchronous processes. IronCache is useful for many situations where a database alone isn’t an optimal solution. The service is accessible via a simple HTTP interface…
Read MoreIron.io speaking at Citrix Synergy
Iron.io will be presenting at Synergy2012 on Wed, May 9th. It’s Citrix’s premier customer conference and will be focusing on cloud computing, virtualization, and networking technologies. The conference is May 9-11 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Chad Arimura will be talking about how using hosted task queues and message queues lets developers effortlessly add asynchronicity and…
Read MoreIron.io Speaking at Ubuntu Cloud Summit
Iron.io will be speaking at the Ubuntu Cloud Summit on Tuesday, May 8th. Chad will be talking about Iron.io and how cloud services fit in with PaaS and in the cloud stack. Lots of great companies are also presenting including Canonical, HP, VMware, Rackspace, Scalr, and 10gen. The analytics firm RedMonk is hosting and so…
Read MoreIronWorker Goes Hyperpolyglot – Adds Java, Node and Go Support
A hyperpolyglot is one who can speak six or more languages fluently. The term was coined by the linguist Richard Hudson in 2003 and derives from the word “polyglot”, meaning one who can speak multiple languages. Today marks a major step forward for IronWorker as we’ve opened the platform to a wide array of…
Read MoreIron.io is a cloudControl Add-on
cloudControl has teamed with Iron.io to make IronWorker and IronMQ supported add-ons within the cloudControl platform. cloudControl is one of the leading cloud platforms in Europe with thousands of energetic developers building applications and making heavy use of cloud resources and cloud services. Iron.io fits perfectly into this picture. cloudControl offers hassle-free agile deployment along…
Read MoreOne Webhook to Rule Them All – One URL, Millions of Possibilities
Have you ever wished the service you were using had integrations with other third party services? If it supports webhooks, I’ll show you in this post how to easily integrate with any service that has an API. And no server is required. What is a Webhook? “The concept of a WebHook is simple. A WebHook…
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