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Iron.io @ HackTheMidwest

By Iron | May 10, 2013

Iron.io will be an API sponsor at the upcoming HackTheMidwest on June 15-16th, 2013 in Kansas City. The event is…

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Iron.io @ Civic Data Challenge

By Iron | May 9, 2013

Iron.io is thrilled to be a sponsor of the Civic Data Challenge. It’s both a cool tech challenge – its…

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Laravel 4 + IronMQ Push Queues = Insane Goodness

By Iron | May 2, 2013

Laravel is an increasingly popular PHP framework with a strong and growing following. If you’re a PHP developer, it’s a…

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Iron.io Joins OpenStack to Drive Open Cloud Message Queues

By Iron | April 25, 2013

Iron.io is now an OpenStack supporter. This may not appear all that unusual – given the top companies originally behind…

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IronMQ Handling 250M Requests Per Day, IronWorker Executing Over 500K Jobs

By Iron | April 17, 2013

This month, Iron.io hit two major milestones in our usage numbers for two of our services. IronMQ is now handling…

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Relify adds IronWorker to their Stack ➞ Ridiculously Simple Worker Scalability

By Iron | April 11, 2013

Relify, a Recommendations as a Service engine, is one of the really cool customers that Iron.io serves. They offer a…

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IronWorker API Outages – Post Mortem

By Iron | April 9, 2013

Starting around 9:45 PT on April 6th, the IronWorker API started having issues where requests to the API would not…

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Iron.io @ New York Hackathons (Hack Upstate and UB Hacking)

By Iron | April 5, 2013

Iron.io is excited to be a sponsor at two upcoming hackathons in New York. Both are in upstate New York is…

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How We Went from 30 Servers to 2: Go

By Iron | March 12, 2013

When we built the first version of IronWorker, about 3 years ago, it was written in Ruby and the API…

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Cloud Messaging Protocol: AMQP vs HTTP

By Iron | February 28, 2013

We saw a recent post from GitHub about removing the AMQP service from GitHub Services and passed it around the…

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Iron.io + OpenShift : PaaS 2.0 for the Enterprise

By Iron | February 25, 2013

Iron.io is pleased to announce we are now a developer partner on OpenShift. OpenShift is Red Hat’s auto-scaling Platform as…

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Iron.io @ API Strategy Conference (NYC)

By Iron | February 21, 2013

Iron.io will be in NYC this week at the API Strategy Conference. It was originally scheduled for November but Hurricane…

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