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How to Reduce a 9 Hour Job into a 9 Minute Job
A common problem developers have is how to run through a large number of tasks in a short amount of time. For instance, sending out a nightly notification to all your users, calculating your user’s bills every month or updating their Facebook graph data. These types of things are very common and almost every application…
Read MoreAnti-Pattern: Lots of Scheduled Jobs
IronWorker provides an easy way to schedule jobs in the cloud without being tied to a particular server. Think Cron in the cloud.)
Read MorePost Twitter Updates to HipChat using SimpleWorker – No Server Required
We use HipChat for internal communications at SimpleWorker and one of the great things about it is that it has a nice API allowing you to do some cool things like post messages to a chat room programmatically. One thing I wanted to be notified about was when someone mentioned SimpleWorker on Twitter and what better…
Read MoreHow to Build a Serverless Search Engine with SimpleWorker and IndexTank
Our friends over at IndexTank recently posted an article on how to create a search page using IndexTank and SimpleWorker. SimpleWorker to gather data from a remote service, in this case Plixi, and IndexTank to index that data for searching. SimpleWorker is great for collecting and keeping data up to date because you can schedule a…
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