Video Series – Episode 1: Getting Started

By Iron | August 25, 2011 |

Hey All, I’m starting a video series to help new and current customers get the most out of the SimpleWorker service. Here’s the first edition, creatively titled “Getting Started“.  It is a 2 minute walkthrough from signup to running workers that you can emulate exactly to help get you started using background processing as a…

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Worker Example Library on Github

By Iron | February 20, 2011 |

We’ve created a public github repository for SimpleWorker example code. There are a few samples in there right now and we’ll keep adding to it and we welcome any contributions as well!  If you have a worker you’d like to share, fork the project, add your worker example, then send us a pull request. https://github.com/iron-io/simple_worker_examples

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Parallelizing Ruby on the Cloud

By Iron | May 27, 2010 |

So I’m sure we’ve all had the need to want to run multiple threads at once to optimize a part of our applications. There are several options like spinning up new Ruby threads (example from):

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