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The Iron.io Console (HUD) Version 4 Released – Better all around

By Iron | July 4, 2012

The New HUD The latest update to the Iron.io user interface, otherwise known as HUD, is live. Taking into account…

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Powerful Email Infrastructure with IronWorker, ActionMailer, and SendGrid

By Iron | June 12, 2012

Against most predictions, email has stood the test of time and remains one of the most common and effective forms…

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Iron.io + xHack = Grand Prize Winner

By Iron | June 11, 2012

Congrats to Talk to the Future, winner of the $5000 grand prize at xHack 2012 (#xhack)! A one-person team built…

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Spikability – An Application’s Ability to Handle Unknown and/or Inconsistent Load

By Iron | June 6, 2012

Neo Handling Load I’ve been in many conversations recently about how an application can handle spiky behavior. More importantly, how to handle…

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Iron.io + xHack

By Iron | June 4, 2012

Iron.io is excited to be a sponsor of xHack 2012, a pretty cool hackathon in San Francisco June 8-10th. It’s called…

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Best Practices: Scalable Image Processing

By Iron | May 29, 2012

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Coincidentally, processing an image is about a thousand times more demanding…

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Iron.io + HackTheMidwest

By Iron | May 28, 2012

    Iron.io is a sponsor of HackTheMidwest, a hackathon in Kansas City on June 2nd & 3rd. Looks like…

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The New IronWorker Command Line Interface and .worker Files

By Iron | May 24, 2012

We have created a shiny new command line interface (CLI) and a brand new way to define your workers to…

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Iron.io Releases IronCache (Beta)

By Iron | May 16, 2012

Iron.io is pleased to announce a soft-launch/beta release of IronCache, a hosted key/value data cache. It’s an elastic cloud-based solution…

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Iron.io speaking at Citrix Synergy

By Iron | May 8, 2012

Iron.io will be presenting at Synergy2012 on Wed, May 9th. It’s Citrix’s premier customer conference and will be focusing on…

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Iron.io Speaking at Ubuntu Cloud Summit

By Iron | May 7, 2012

Iron.io will be speaking at the Ubuntu Cloud Summit on Tuesday, May 8th. Chad will be talking about Iron.io and…

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IronWorker Goes Hyperpolyglot – Adds Java, Node and Go Support

By Iron | April 25, 2012

  A hyperpolyglot is one who can speak six or more languages fluently. The term was coined by the linguist…

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