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How Application Infrastructure Has Evolved From Local to Remote

By Nick | December 23, 2020

Overview The three eras of application infrastructure are: Datacenters Hosted data The cloud While they’re all different, each technology is…

The Evolution of App Deployment and Packaging: 1990 to Now

By Nick | December 23, 2020

Overview While app infrastructure and architecture were evolving, so was the face of software deployment and packaging. Over the past…

PagerDuty and IronWorker Integration

By Nick | December 23, 2020

Time-critical incident reports are essential for async task processing. With a tool like IronWorker, running tasks is almost always a seamless…

Evolution of development process

By Nick | December 23, 2020

Overview If you’ve followed our series on the evolution of IT, you know that we still need to talk about how…

IronWorker vs. Ruby/Rails Worker

By Nick | December 23, 2020

Overview Architecture: IronWorker is an on-demand async task processing software for container-based workloads. Ruby on Rails (or Rails) is a…

Redis RQ vs Iron.MQ: Which Service Is Better for Me?

By Nick | December 23, 2020

Overview Language: Iron.MQ is language agnostic and Redis RQ supports Python, JavaScript, Ruby and GO, along with many others. Performance:…

Iron.MQ vs Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM): What’s the Difference?

By Nick | December 23, 2020

Overview Language: Firebase Cloud Messaging makes use of Java, Kotlin, XML, C, C++, SQLite in terms of languages and databases…

What Is FaaS?

By Nick | December 23, 2020

Overview Technological trends over the last decade have made it possible for organizations to rely on “as a service” models.…

IronWorker vs. Dynos

By Nick | December 23, 2020

Overview Architecture: IronWorker is a hosted job processing solution that lets you manage container-based workloads. Dynos are isolated Linux containers…

IronWorker vs. Sidekiq

By Nick | December 23, 2020

Overview Architecture: IronWorker is a server-less on-demand task processing solution for managing container-based workloads. Sidekiq is a background processing tool…

Iron.mq vs Amazon SQS: What’s the Difference?

By Nick | December 23, 2020

Overview Language: Amazon SQS is compatible with Java, Ruby, Python, .NET, PHP, JavaScript and Java Message Service (JMS) but Iron.mq…

Apache Kafka vs IronMQ: What’s Best For Your Business?

By Nick | December 22, 2020

Overview Enterprise messaging systems connect business applications for ease in sharing data. Apache Kafka is an open-source solution boasting high…