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Start Your Engines! SimpleWorker is now an Engine Yard Partner
Engine Yard has been hosting, deploying, managing and scaling Rails applications since before the “cloud” was cool and they’re still…
Read MoreVideo Series – Episode 2: Scheduling
Hey All, Here’s the second video in my tutorial series. In under 3 minutes I demonstrate how to schedule a…
Read MoreVideo Series – Episode 1: Getting Started
Hey All, I’m starting a video series to help new and current customers get the most out of the SimpleWorker…
Read MoreNew Release: Job Fairness, More Generic Backend and New Gem
Hi all, we pushed out a major new release a couple of nights ago and it is a big step…
Read MoreHeroku + SimpleWorker = General Availability
SimpleWorker is now available as General Availability in the Heroku Add-ons Catalog! In other words, we’re out of private beta…
Read MoreSimpleWorker is a Citrix Accelerator Finalist!
We’re proud to announce that SimpleWorker is a finalist in the Citrix Global Challenge 2011. Hundreds of companies were vetted…
Read MoreAnti-Pattern: Lots of Scheduled Jobs
IronWorker provides an easy way to schedule jobs in the cloud without being tied to a particular server. Think Cron…
Read MorePost Twitter Updates to HipChat using SimpleWorker – No Server Required
We use HipChat for internal communications at SimpleWorker and one of the great things about it is that it has…
Read MoreHow to Build a Serverless Search Engine with SimpleWorker and IndexTank
Our friends over at IndexTank recently posted an article on how to create a search page using IndexTank and SimpleWorker. SimpleWorker…
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Pattern: Creating Task-Level Workers at Runtime
Overview A type of topic appearing more and more frequently in StackOverflow and Quora are questions on general architecture and…
Read MoreMongoSF Was Awesome
Had a great time at the MongoSF conference last week. Meghan Gill, Melia Jones, Max Schireson and the rest of…
Read MoreQuintupled Capacity Over the Past Week
Over the past week, we have seen tremendous usage growth on SimpleWorker. Our queues were getting backed up and our…
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