Quintupled Capacity Over the Past Week
Over the past week, we have seen tremendous usage growth on SimpleWorker. Our queues were getting backed up and our poor little workers just couldn’t keep up. Well we threw some horsepower at the problem… lots of horsepower, and now we’re running smooth again. Sorry for those who had extra long wait times, we’re growing…
Read MoreWorkers + NoSQL
Chad Arimura will be speaking at the MongoSF conference next Tuesday, May 24th. He’ll be showing off the combination of SimpleWorker and MongoDB. As databases moves to more elastic and sharded NoSQL solutions like MongoDB, more and more processing moves from the data tier to the application tier. This shift makes background processing queues an…
Read MoreShiny New User Interface Now Live
We’ve completed a major overhaul of the SimpleWorker interface and it is now live. The new interface is reorganized and redesigned for a much better user experience allowing you to manage and monitor your workers/jobs more effectively. Here are some sample screens:
Read MoreMore Power to the Workers! Huge Performance Upgrade Went Out Last Night
Performance is one of our primary goals for SimpleWorker and we’re happy to announce that we pushed out some major infrastructural changes last night that show some huge improvements in run times for all workers across the board. Here are before/after results for a particular customer’s hourly usage.
Read MoreSimpleWorker Talk at Sydney Ruby on Rails Meetup, April 12
If you’re in or around Sydney, Australia tomorrow, be sure to check out the talk on SimpleWorker at the Ruby on Rails Oceania Meetup.
Read MoreUse Any Gem You Want!
Ask And Ye Shall Receive… gems that is. The `merge_gem` feature is now in production and ready for use allowing you to use any gem you want. It will use the gems on your local file system so whatever you have available locally you can use. It’s very easy to use: More info. Note: If…
Read MoreWhy IronWorker is Better than Heroku Workers / Delayed Job
Overview First off, I would like to say that we use and love Heroku, the system they’ve built is game-changing and 100% awesome, but their worker system is limited and does not meet our needs. Here are the top 4 reasons why IronWorker is better than Heroku’s worker system and Delayed Job (Heroku’s system is…
Read MoreWorker Queues as a Key Variable
Anyone working on a serious web app knows that a worker queue makes up a key component within the app architecture. So important is it that the infrastructure equation is typically broken into servers, workers, and datastores. Sure, there are other components and line items (cdn, bandwidth, etc) that an app can’t do within, but…
Read MoreWorker Example Library on Github
We’ve created a public github repository for SimpleWorker example code. There are a few samples in there right now and we’ll keep adding to it and we welcome any contributions as well! If you have a worker you’d like to share, fork the project, add your worker example, then send us a pull request. https://github.com/iron-io/simple_worker_examples
Read MoreSimpleWorker is now a Heroku Add-on!
Now you can start using SimpleWorker in your Heroku apps with minimal effort. It’s currently in private beta as an add-on, but let us know if you want to try it and we’ll try to get you on the list. More information.
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