Using IronWorker to Power Custom Service Integrations

The rise of the API economy in recent years has also given the integration economy a much needed breath of new life. What was once a painful process of dealing with proprietary formats and clunky middleware, has now become a streamlined process via openly consumable cloud-native REST APIs. As such, a new breed of services…

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Squashing Bugs in The Cloud: How Airbrake uses IronMQ v3

By Reed Allman, Backend Engineer, Iron.io Ah, message queues. Last year we set out to build a better message queue, both for our internal use and to run as a service for customers. If you’ve ever looked into message queues yourself, you’ll know they’re all different, and, conveniently, none of them are ever quite what…

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How to Build an ETL Pipeline for ElasticSearch Using Segment and Iron.io

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Overview ETL is a common pattern in the big data world for collecting and consolidating data for storage and/or analysis. Here’s the basic process: Extract data from a variety of sources Transform data through a set of custom processes Load data to external databases or data warehouses   Segment + Iron.io + Elasticsearch = A…

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New FFmpeg IronWorker Stack For Easy Video Processing

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FFmpeg is the leading cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. Dealing with audio and video can eat up resources, making the activity a great fit for IronWorker by moving the heavy lifting to the background. In the past, usage of FFmpeg with IronWorker would require that our users include and install…

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Segment.io adds Iron.io as an endpoint for message queueing

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Iron.io + Segment.io = Integration Goodness IronMQ has just been added as an endpoint for message queueing within Segment.io. Segment.io provides a single gateway that lets developers, marketers, and analysts pipe logs, metrics, user actions, and other key app data to hundreds of other applications and tools. The Segment.io API acts as a control for…

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Real-time Logging for IronWorker with Logentries (repost)

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Real-time logging of workers tasks is a popular feature in IronWorker. We provide an interface to third-party logging components and services which allows you to send your log output to any syslog endpoint and see the output in real-time. Prior to this, you had to wait for your task to finish before being able to view a log…

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Schedule Email with SendGrid and Iron.io (repost)

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Using IronWorker to Schedule Emails in Node.js, Ruby, and PHP Schedule Email with SendGrid and Iron.io Nick Quinlan from SendGrid just put out a really nice post on using IronWorker to schedule email using SendGrid. And what’s even better is he shows how to do it in three languages: Node.js PHP Ruby

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Iron.io Joins Red Hat’s OpenShift Marketplace

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  The OpenShift Marketplace Iron.io is pleased to announce its IronMQ and IronWorker solutions are part of the OpenShift Marketplace. The marketplace is an important component to Red Hat’s OpenShift Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) in that it lets developers combine the benefits of enterprise PaaS with tightly integrated, complementary solutions – all without losing time on technology…

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Iron.io Enhances Web and Mobile Capabilities with CORS Support

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  Iron.io adds CORS support Iron.io is pleased to announce the introduction of support for Cross-origin Resource Sharing (CORS). This capability means that developers have even easier access to the Iron.io platform from desktop and mobile browsers and other client devices.   CORS is an HTML5 feature that supports cross-domain communication across web clients and…

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Iron.io Launches on Pivotal Cloud Foundry Platform

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Iron.io is proud to announce that IronMQ and IronWorker are now available as add-on services on Pivotal’s web-based Platform-as-a-Service (PAAS) which is available at https://run.pivotal.io and runs the open source Cloud Foundry platform. Run.pivotal provides app developers with a powerful option to rapidly deploy and scale new applications. The recent launch of Pivotal CF – a…

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