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Iron.io Launches IronMQ in Europe
IronMQ is now available in Europe Iron.io is happy to announce today the launch of IronMQ services in Europe. IronMQ EU provides the full functionality of IronMQ as is currently available in the US and is available to the public in general release. IronMQ offers two endpoints in Europe – AWS EU-West and Rackspace-LON.…
Read MorePush Queues + Error Queues = Better Queue Processing
Overview IronMQ has had push queue capabilities for a while now. Push queues allow messages/payloads to be pushed to one or more endpoints and is a very popular feature. Within IronMQ push queues, up to 100 subscribers can be added – with the routing being either unicast (pushing to 1 subscriber) or multi-cast…
Read MoreMessage Queues, Background Processing and the End of the Monolithic App (reposted from Heroku blog)
Here’s a post of ours on message queuing and background processing that we published on the Heroku blog the other day. Definitely worth checking out if you believe like us that distributed multi-tier architectures are the future of production-scale cloud applications. Iron.io Guest Post on Heroku Message Queues, Background Processing and the End of the Monolithic…
Read MoreIronMQ Fan-out Support
You can now add queues and workers as subscribers to your IronMQ queues so now a single message post can be pushed onto multiple queues and/or start IronWorker tasks. This is often referred to as “fan-out” and opens up a lot of interesting possibilities such as: Multiple consumers of a single message. Better decoupling by…
Read MoreUsing IronMQ for Delayed Processing and Increasing Scale (repost from Rackspace Blog)
Here’s a post of ours on using IronMQ to increase scale that recently appeared on the Rackspace Developers DevOps blog. Definitely worth checking out if you’re looking to scale out background processing and quicken the user response loop.
Read MoreIronMQ Now Available on Rackspace ORD (Chicago)
We’re happy to announce that IronMQ is now available in the Rackspace Chicago (ORD) region. A year and a half ago, we launched IronMQ on Rackspace in their Dallas / Fort Worth (DFW) region and today we’re expanding our footprint into another Rackspace data center. Our mission for IronMQ is to be the message queue for the…
Read MoreCloud Messaging Protocol: AMQP vs HTTP
We saw a recent post from GitHub about removing the AMQP service from GitHub Services and passed it around the team as an item of interest. Got to talking later on that evening away from the keyboard and realized it has bigger meaning than just a side note. Recent GitHub Blog Post…
Read MoreCommon Actions on Messages in a Queue
Overview In a previous post, we talked about our ten favorite uses for a message queue. The uses laid out the architectural benefits of putting a message queue in place as a key component within a distributed system. The writers at HighScalability did us one better with their description of a message queue in…
Read MoreIronMQ Push Queues – Reliable Message Delivery for the Cloud
Overview IronMQ Push Queues adds notification capabilities to your queues allowing you to send messages to other systems in a scalable, flexible, and cost-effective way. You simply add subscribers, which are HTTP endpoints, to your IronMQ queues then any message you post to your queue will be reliably delivered to the subscribers. Table of…
Read MorePeek, Touch and Release
IronMQ now supports three new operations: peek, touch and release. These operations give you greater control over handling your messages and here’s a brief explanation of each. Table of Contents: A little background on the message lifecycle Peek Touch Release Achieve Cloud Elasticity with Iron Speak to us to find how you can achieve…
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