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SendGrid + IronMQ: The Power of Webhook-Centric Architectures
A suite of examples showcasing the power of webhooks using Iron.io and SendGrid. At Iron.io, we believe strongly that there is a new model of application architectures that is becoming not only viable, but the most powerful way to build your application. More and more applications will be built not using static servers and direct integrations, but instead…
Read MoreGoSF Meetup: Canonical + Go 1.1 + a growing Go community
Travis Reeder from Iron.io kicks off the GoSF Meetup (5/9) Iron.io is the lead organizer of GoSF – which is a meetup specially centered around Go programming language. GoSF has been around for just over a year and it’s apparent it’s becoming a key group within the developer community. We base this view not just on the…
Read MoreIron.io @ HackTheMidwest
Iron.io will be an API sponsor at the upcoming HackTheMidwest on June 15-16th, 2013 in Kansas City. The event is put on by Kansas City IT Professionals, a grass-roots group of 10,000 strong (the heavy lifting is largely the efforts of Michael Gelphman, hackathon/tech event producer extraordinaire.) The goal is to bring small teams of developers and…
Read MoreIron.io @ Civic Data Challenge
Iron.io is thrilled to be a sponsor of the Civic Data Challenge. It’s both a cool tech challenge – its prime goal is to turn raw data around ‘civic health’ into useful applications and visualizations AND a worthwhile cause – providing a great forum to directly impact public decision-making. It’s put on by the NCoC…
Read MoreIron.io Joins OpenStack to Drive Open Cloud Message Queues
Iron.io is now an OpenStack supporter. This may not appear all that unusual – given the top companies originally behind the initiative plus the growing numbers joining – but it is noteworthy for a cloud services company. With most cloud services, it shouldn’t really matter what the underlying IT stack or even what cloud you’re…
Read MoreIronMQ Handling 250M Requests Per Day, IronWorker Executing Over 500K Jobs
This month, Iron.io hit two major milestones in our usage numbers for two of our services. IronMQ is now handling over 250 million requests per day (== 174K per minute == 2,900 per second). This is up from 100 million just three months ago. Also, IronWorker is now executing over 500,000 jobs (tasks) per day.…
Read MoreIronWorker API Outages – Post Mortem
Starting around 9:45 PT on April 6th, the IronWorker API started having issues where requests to the API would not receive a response and timeout. The issues were intermittent over the next few days with short outages followed by hours of normal operation. The cause of the issues were a couple infrequently used queries that…
Read MoreIron.io @ New York Hackathons (Hack Upstate and UB Hacking)
Iron.io is excited to be a sponsor at two upcoming hackathons in New York. Both are in upstate New York is showing lots of cool tech activity lately. This is great for us because it gives us an opportunity to connect with some awesome projects, teams, schools, and organizations. Hack Upstate Hack Upstate is a weekend…
Read MoreIron.io @ API Strategy Conference (NYC)
Iron.io will be in NYC this week at the API Strategy Conference. It was originally scheduled for November but Hurricane Sandy introduced a change in plans. It’s being put on by Kin Lane (API Evangelist) and the people at 3Scale. It’s on Thurs/Fri, Feb 21-22nd and is expected to draw a capacity crowd (site says it’s…
Read MoreGame of Nines – Iron.io Uptime Report
The number one core tenet of Iron.io is IronClad Reliability so we put a lot of time and effort into making our services reliable. It seems to have paid off. Our uptime for IronMQ was 100% for the past 30 days and 99.98% for the past 6 months. For comparison, “Gmail uptime is in the range of 99.99 percent –…
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