Customer Success
How Untappd Reduced App Response Times 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.] Untappd is a mobile location based service for beer lovers that allows users to log, rate and discover new beers, venues and people.…
Read MoreEvent Handling with .NET, RaventDB, and IronMQ
The other day we blogged about a map-reduce contribution from the Iron.io community. Here’s another great contribution from an Iron.io user which highlights handling commit transactions within a database all the while coordinating downstream events using a message queue. Jef Claes is a developer in Belgium that has written a few things about IronMQ in…
Read MoreMap-Reduce Capabilities and Super Easy Concurrency (via Alan deLevie and IronResponse)
We came across a great contribution the other day from Alan deLevie that makes using IronWorker for a map-reduce pattern even easier than it already is. (Love seeing tweets announcing additions to the growing list of Iron.io community addons.) I just wrote a gem that lets you write map-reduce style code using @getiron: https://t.co/49DNyLrXey. Makes…
Read MoreYii + IronMQ = Yiiron → Giving a Powerful PHP Framework Even More Juice
Yii is a high-performance PHP framework designed for developing scalable applications. It is a well proven and stable framework with a large following. Yii comes with rich features – MVC, ActiveRecord, internationalization, caching, authentication, role-based access control, scaffolding, testing, more. All these features translate into drastically reduced app development times, more readable code logic,…
Read MoreRelify adds IronWorker to their Stack ➞ Ridiculously Simple Worker Scalability
Relify, a Recommendations as a Service engine, is one of the really cool customers that Iron.io serves. They offer a simple API that eliminates the complexity of developing a recommendation engine –which means you can greatly increase your relevance to your users. Terry Horner is the Co-Founder and CEO of Relify. A recent blog post of his…
Read MoreHow We Went from 30 Servers to 2: Go
When we built the first version of IronWorker, about 3 years ago, it was written in Ruby and the API was built on Rails. It didn’t take long for us to start getting some pretty heavy load and we quickly reached the limits of our Ruby setup. Long story short, we switched to Go. For…
Read MoreProQuest’s Scalable, No Maintenance Cloud Stack
ProQuest chose IronMQ as a key part of their stack while building the website for WorldRiderz, a documentary on the Discovery Channel. They needed a robust, elastic and scalable architecture. Due to the nature of the project, traffic was always going to be patchy, with periods of heavy traffic, followed by idle periods, so controlling costs and being able…
Read MoreIron.io On Air with Michael Schonfeld from Dwolla
Join us for our first episode of Iron.io On Air ! (Tues, Nov 27th at 5pm PT) Michael Schonfeld, Dwolla This first show will feature Michael Schonfeld, a Developer Evangelist from Dwolla. Michael built the MassPay solution for DwollaLabs using IronWorker. He and members of Iron.io’s DevExp team be live on air to answer your questions…
Read MoreGuest Post: Iron.io + Team Healthify = Hacking Change in Healthcare
Sabrina Atienza and George Ramonov are emerging experts in the areas of big data and healthcare information. This is their story from xHack 2012, a hackathon sponsored by RadiumOne and via.me. Hello world, we’re two aspiring hackers from UC Berkeley: Sabrina Atienza and George Ramonov. We comprised Team Healthify at xHack 2012 held this past June. From…
Read MoreSpikability – An Application’s Ability to Handle Unknown and/or Inconsistent Load
Neo Handling Load I’ve been in many conversations recently about how an application can handle spiky behavior. More importantly, how to handle it without a bunch of wasted resources that sit idle most of the time just to handle the spikes. There are a bunch of applications where this is a very typical use case, for instance:
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