Video Series – Episode 2: Scheduling
Hey All, Here’s the second video in my tutorial series. In under 3 minutes I demonstrate how to schedule a worker that posts to Twitter, and even show the code involved, which is a grand total of about 50 lines.
Read MoreVideo Series – Episode 1: Getting Started
Hey All, I’m starting a video series to help new and current customers get the most out of the SimpleWorker service. Here’s the first edition, creatively titled “Getting Started“. It is a 2 minute walkthrough from signup to running workers that you can emulate exactly to help get you started using background processing as a…
Read MoreNew Release: Job Fairness, More Generic Backend and New Gem
Hi all, we pushed out a major new release a couple of nights ago and it is a big step forward in a couple of areas: fairness amongst all users in the system and a more generic backend to allow any Ruby code to run, more on that below.
Read MoreHeroku + SimpleWorker = General Availability
SimpleWorker is now available as General Availability in the Heroku Add-ons Catalog! In other words, we’re out of private beta and anyone can sign up for use with Heroku. W00t! SimpleWorker is a fully featured worker system that runs elastically on the cloud. Like Delayed_job, you can pass off work asynchronously to run in the…
Read MoreSimpleWorker is a Citrix Accelerator Finalist!
We’re proud to announce that SimpleWorker is a finalist in the Citrix Global Challenge 2011. Hundreds of companies were vetted and distilled down to 12 finalists based on a number of criterion, a couple of which I will highlight.
Read MoreAnti-Pattern: Lots of Scheduled Jobs
IronWorker provides an easy way to schedule jobs in the cloud without being tied to a particular server. Think Cron in the cloud.)
Read MorePost Twitter Updates to HipChat using SimpleWorker – No Server Required
We use HipChat for internal communications at SimpleWorker and one of the great things about it is that it has a nice API allowing you to do some cool things like post messages to a chat room programmatically. One thing I wanted to be notified about was when someone mentioned SimpleWorker on Twitter and what better…
Read MoreHow to Build a Serverless Search Engine with SimpleWorker and IndexTank
Our friends over at IndexTank recently posted an article on how to create a search page using IndexTank and SimpleWorker. SimpleWorker to gather data from a remote service, in this case Plixi, and IndexTank to index that data for searching. SimpleWorker is great for collecting and keeping data up to date because you can schedule a…
Read MorePattern: Creating Task-Level Workers at Runtime
Overview A type of topic appearing more and more frequently in StackOverflow and Quora are questions on general architecture and app design. We came across one the other day on approaches to queuing and scheduling workers. A good worker pattern – based on what we’ve seen and done – is to chunk the work (and…
Read MoreMongoSF Was Awesome
Had a great time at the MongoSF conference last week. Meghan Gill, Melia Jones, Max Schireson and the rest of the 10gen team put on a remarkable one-day event for all things Mongo and NoSQL. Some great companies presenting and displaying. MongoHQ, MongoLabs, DotCloud, Cloud Foundry were just a few.
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