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Background jobs on Heroku

Processing Twilio on Heroku with Iron Worker

By Korak Bhaduri | February 21, 2023

Did you know that you can use Twilio to send out all of your emails? But in order to do…

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Message Queue vs Streaming

Message Queue vs Streaming

By Korak Bhaduri | February 19, 2023

Message queues and streams have some subtle differences that can easily leave a developer scratching their head. While the differences may…

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Cron Jobs

How to Run Cron Jobs Every 5, 10, or 15 Minutes

By Korak Bhaduri | February 7, 2023

In the dynamic world of software development, repetitive tasks can consume a significant amount of time and hinder productivity. By…

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Pros and Cons of Cloud Agnostic

By Korak Bhaduri | January 30, 2023

Cloud computing benefits organizations in several ways. More than half of businesses that adopt cloud services say that they experience better…

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Monitoring Google Cloud Run With Datadog

Monitoring Google Cloud Run With Datadog

By Korak Bhaduri | January 20, 2023

Running stateless containers with Google Cloud Run eliminates the need to manage infrastructure. Instead, you can opt for either a fully-managed Cloud…

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AWS Fargate vs Cloud Foundry

By Korak Bhaduri | January 11, 2023

Your container management decision could make or break your application performance! Don’t risk missing out on the perfect solution. Our…

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VMs vs. Docker vs. Kubernetes

VMs vs. Docker vs. Kubernetes

By Korak Bhaduri | January 4, 2023

Many organizations adopt open-source libraries to power their systems. This has led to embracing various operating systems such as Windows…

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Track Race Finish Line

Fastest Messaging Queue: IronMQ is 10x Faster Than RabbitMQ

By Iron | November 14, 2021

We wrote IronMQ from the ground up as a cloud-agnostic message queue service with a focus on performance and easy deployment and management.…

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heroku plugin

Heroku task processing plugin

By Nick | October 30, 2021

Heroku provides a convenient environment for users to develop and deploy their applications. Born in 2007, the cloud provider has…

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worker dynos vs worker add-ons

Worker Dynos vs Worker add-ons

By Nick | October 4, 2021

Heroku is a cloud platform offered as a service. It lets you deploy and manage applications without worrying about the…

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Sending emails from Heroku Apps

Sending emails from Heroku Apps

By Nick | September 27, 2021

Almost any modern application has the function of sending emails. You can send personalized email notifications to your customers, as…

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Notifications in web apps: Mailgun and Twilio on Heroku

Notifications in web apps: Mailgun and Twilio on Heroku

By Nick | September 20, 2021

In web applications, sending and receiving notifications is an important feature among many functionalities. With notification features, you can quickly…

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