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Start Your Engines! SimpleWorker is now an Engine Yard Partner

By Dylan Stamat | September 9, 2011

Engine Yard has been hosting, deploying, managing and scaling Rails applications since before the “cloud” was cool and they’re still…

By Dylan Stamat | August 30, 2011

Hey All, Here’s the second video in my tutorial series. In under 3 minutes I demonstrate how to schedule a…

By Dylan Stamat | August 25, 2011

Hey All, I’m starting a video series to help new and current customers get the most out of the SimpleWorker…

By Dylan Stamat | August 12, 2011

Hi all, we pushed out a major new release a couple of nights ago and it is a big step…

By Dylan Stamat | August 11, 2011

SimpleWorker is now available as General Availability in the Heroku Add-ons Catalog! In other words, we’re out of private beta…

By Dylan Stamat | July 15, 2011

We’re proud to announce that SimpleWorker is a finalist in the Citrix Global Challenge 2011. Hundreds of companies were vetted…

By Dylan Stamat | July 13, 2011

IronWorker provides an easy way to schedule jobs in the cloud without being tied to a particular server. Think Cron…

By Dylan Stamat | June 14, 2011

We use HipChat for internal communications at SimpleWorker and one of the great things about it is that it has…

By Dylan Stamat | June 13, 2011

Our friends over at IndexTank recently posted an article on how to create a search page using IndexTank and SimpleWorker. SimpleWorker…

By Dylan Stamat | June 8, 2011

Overview A type of topic appearing more and more frequently in StackOverflow and Quora are questions on general architecture and…

By Dylan Stamat | May 31, 2011

Had a great time at the MongoSF conference last week. Meghan Gill, Melia Jones, Max Schireson and the rest of…

By Dylan Stamat | May 22, 2011

Over the past week, we have seen tremendous usage growth on SimpleWorker. Our queues were getting backed up and our…