Airbrake Agent for New Relic (produced by Iron.io)

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Iron.io created an Airbrake agent for the New Relic platform. You can see the full post about it on the Airbrake site. Here’s an excerpt.   –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Airbrake NewRelic Add-on   Iron.io has created a great new Airbrake agent for the New Relic platform. The agent grabs data from your Airbrake account and uploads it…

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Iron.io @ DevBeat 2013 (talking about Go)

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  DevBeat 2013 – Nov 12-13th Iron.io be at the DevBeat 2013 conference in San Francisco on Nov 12-13th. It’s a great conference for experienced developers and includes a number of top developer speakers – including Travis Reeder, Iron.io’s CTO. Travis will be talking about Iron.io’s use of Go in production. It’s been two years…

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IronSharp — .NET Client Library for Iron.io (a contribution from a user)

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IronSharp is a great new contribution from a long-time supporter and user of IronMQ, IronWorker, and IronCache. Jeremy Bell created IronSharp to provide updated access in .NET to all Iron.io services. It’s a simple solid library that wraps the API calls for IronMQ, IronWorker, and IronCache and includes support for the latest Iron.io features. (It…

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Iron.io @ API:World 2013

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Chad Arimura from Iron.io will be speaking at API:World this week. API:World 2013 is part of the DataWeek conference which is being held in San Francisco on Oct 2nd-3rd.   Iron.io @ API:World 2013 The API World conference was created with the mission to be a technology-neutral catalyst of connections, knowledge, trust, and business within the developer…

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Go After 2 Years in Production

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After running Go for two years in production at Iron.io, I wanted to share our experience/feelings about it. We were one of the first companies to use Go (golang) in production and we didn’t know what to expect in the long run, but so far, so great.I talked a little about about this in a previous post…

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A Difficult Month – Post Mortem

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As some of you may know, we had a pretty bad month starting May 15th and ending June 14th. IronMQ on AWS us-east had intermittent outages and degraded performance due to an edge case flaw that was exposed after a year and a half of solid service. Generally these were pretty short outages, but they…

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Iron.io Announces Agent Processing for Powering New Relic Plugins

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Today Iron.io announces powerful agent processing capabilities for powering third-party plugins for the New Relic Platform. New Relic has opened up its SaaS service to provide building blocks for creating monitoring capabilities for any technology or service. Performance metrics from IT components and cloud services can now be brought directly into New Relic and viewed…

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Iron.io Metrics + New Relic Platform = Increased Nerd Power

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Part 1: Iron.io Metrics now in the New Relic Platform Iron.io is pleased to announce its participation as a New Relic Platform partner. As of today, Iron.io has opened up a gateway for Iron.io customers to send IronMQ performance data to the New Relic Platform. This means that Iron.io metrics can be viewed within New Relic’s…

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Iron.io @ HackTheMidwest → Half Empty App Wins Iron.io API Prize

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The Hack the Midwest hackathon was this past weekend (June 15-16th) in Kansas City. The theme was “Build Something Epic” and from the looks of the projects the 30+ teams put together, that certainly proved true.   Among the many deserving winners was Half Empty? – which won the winner of the Iron.io API Prize (a…

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