Customer Success
Using Iron.io Workers for Large Scale PHP posting with Laravel (a repost from Scott Wilcox)
Scalable Workers in Laravel One of the fun parts about working at Iron.io is being able to connect with developers working on some great projects. One of these is Scott Wilcox, the developer of Tweekly.fm. His service posts Last.fm events to Twitter and has been growing in popular the last several months. Scott wrote a great post…
Read MoreHow One User Automated a Research Study with IronWorker and Twilio (a repost from Usability Panda)
Katarzyna Stawarz, a PhD student at University College London, wrote a really nice blog post on using Twilio and IronWorker to communicate via SMS. She was conducting a study that tested a method of habit formation research and needed a way to send out reminders to participants at specific times during the day, every day,…
Read MoreIronHack Deep Dive: Iron TicTacToe
This past week we crowned a winner for our Iron Holiday Hack. It was a one week virtual hackathon where participants built apps that were useful, beautiful, informative, or just plain cool. David Jones built an awesome little project called Iron TicTacToe that hit the mark on the goals of the challenge. The application was…
Read MoreA Reminder App using Ruby, Google Docs, SendGrid, and Iron.io (SendGrid repost)
Nick Quinlan from SendGrid put out a nice post the other day on a simple app he created to email him daily goals. It’s a short post but with some solid code behind it which adds a lot of value in our minds. (It’s one thing talk about tech but it’s another to turn it…
Read MoreQueuing and Processing Your Way To Scalability using Go and Iron.io (reposted)
We came across another great post by William Kennedy on running scaling out applications using Iron.io platform and Go programming language. He wrote an excellent post on using Go with IronWorker several months back. William writes Going Go Programming and so he certainly knows what he’s talking about when it comes to Go. We’re big fans…
Read MoreHow Kuhcoon uses IronWorker and Node.js to improve social media advertising
[This post is part of a series of customer success stories that Chad Arimura is putting together highlighting key customers and how they are using Iron.io to do some pretty big things.] Kuhcoon offers a suite of tools built around the management and optimization of social media advertising for businesses. They provide two tools – a…
Read MoreHow a simple Node.js project turned into Iron Scheduler (guest post)
This is a guest post from David Hessing, Director of Data Analytics at Appirio, on how a simple project to teach himself Node.js turned into Iron Scheduler, a powerful scheduling tool built on top of IronWorker. The Power of Task Processing in the Cloud [David Hessing] I remember coming across Iron.io’s services and immediately being intrigued. IronWorker…
Read MoreWhy Mentor Graphics replaced SQS with IronMQ
[This post is part of a series of customer success stories that Chad Arimura is putting together highlighting key customers and how they are using Iron.io to do some pretty big things.] Mentor Graphics [NASDAQ: MENT] is a leader in electronic design and automation software. They enable companies to develop better electronic products faster and…
Read MoreHow Munzee Keeps Gameplay Real with IronMQ
This post is part of a series of customer success stories highlighting key customers and how they are using Iron.io to do some pretty big things. Munzee is a 21st century scavenger hunt that utilizes iOS, Android, and Windows Mobile apps to create a modern-day, high-tech adventure game. Munzee QR Codes and NFC Tags are captured…
Read MoreHow Vextras Integrates Multiple API’s with Iron.io
[This post is part of a series of customer success stories that Chad Arimura is putting together highlighting key customers and how they are using Iron.io to do some pretty big things.] Vextras develops applications that help e-commerce store owners simplify their business processes. Their solutions connect online stores with other great SaaS apps like…
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