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IronCast 4: How to connect to your database from IronWorker – IronWorker 101 Part 4/4

By Iron | October 7, 2013

In a series of four IronCasts, we will provide a high-level introduction to using IronWorker, an easy-to-use scalable task queue.…

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Iron.io @ API:World 2013

By Iron | October 1, 2013

Chad Arimura from Iron.io will be speaking at API:World this week. API:World 2013 is part of the DataWeek conference which is being…

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IronCast 3: How to rapidly prototype locally with IronWorker – IronWorker 101 Part 3/4

By Iron | September 30, 2013

In a series of four IronCasts, we will provide a high-level introduction to using IronWorker, an easy-to-use scalable task queue.…

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7 Reasons Webhooks Are Magic

By Iron | September 25, 2013

Around the Iron.io office, I’m known as a bit of a webhook enthusiast. When asked what my favourite features of…

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IronCast 2: What is a worker file? – IronWorker 101 Part 2/4

By Iron | September 18, 2013

In a series of four IronCasts, we will provide a high-level introduction to using IronWorker, an easy-to-use scalable task queue.…

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How Vextras Integrates Multiple API’s with Iron.io

By Iron | September 13, 2013
[This post is part of a series of customer success stories that Chad Arimura is putting together highlighting key customers…

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Running Go on IronWorker (reposted)

By Iron | September 11, 2013

Going Go: Running Go Programs in IronWorker We came across a great post by William Kennedy on running Go tasks…

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IronCast 1: Introduction to IronWorker – IronWorker 101 Part 1/4

By Iron | September 9, 2013

In a series of four IronCasts, we will provide a high-level introduction to using IronWorker. IronWorker is an easy-to-use scalable…

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How Untappd Reduced App Response Times with Iron.io

By Iron | September 4, 2013
[This post is part of a series of customer success stories that Chad Arimura is putting together highlighting key customers…

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Go After 2 Years in Production

By Iron | August 27, 2013

After running Go for two years in production at Iron.io, I wanted to share our experience/feelings about it. We were one…

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Event Handling with .NET, RaventDB, and IronMQ

By Iron | August 23, 2013

The other day we blogged about a map-reduce contribution from the Iron.io community. Here’s another great contribution from an Iron.io…

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Map-Reduce Capabilities and Super Easy Concurrency (via Alan deLevie and IronResponse)

By Iron | August 15, 2013

We came across a great contribution the other day from Alan deLevie that makes using IronWorker for a map-reduce pattern…

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