Serverless News
Heroku + 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 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.
Read MoreQuintupled 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 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 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.
Read MorePushed 0.3.0 Gem: Much More User Friendly
After using SimpleWorkr for a long time now, I always think to myself, “there’s gotta be some way to make this more intuitive”. I want it to feel more like it’s just like running your normal code without even really realizing that the work is actually offloaded to the cloud. So with that in mind,…
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