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When Unit Tests Aren’t Enough… ABT – Always Be Testing
Traditionally, developers create unit tests to test code and to ensure bugs don’t get introduced as time goes on…
Rate Limiting Your Workers to Play Nicer with Other API’s
Overview Many third-party API’s have rate limits to ensure you don’t overuse or DoS them. Twitter for instance has…
Platforms, Languages, and App Services: Economies and Communities of Scale
Platforms, Languages, and App Services The case for cloud platforms is being made convincingly these days. Platforms magnify the power…
IronWorker and IronMQ now on AppFog
Today, we’re happy to announce that IronMQ and IronWorker are now included as supported add-ons for AppFog. We are very…
IronWorker Goes Multi-Language! Now Supports Ruby, PHP, and Python
Today marks a big milestone in the evolution if IronWorker: multi-language support. In addition to Ruby which we’ve supported…
IronMQ on Heroku Now Open to the Public
IronMQ is now in General Availability on Heroku so everyone can add it to their Heroku apps. It’s really easy…
Iron.io at Heroku Waza
Hey All, Both Travis and I (co-founders) will be at Heroku Waza tomorrow in San Francisco. It’s Heroku’s first developer…
Iron.io: Ironclad Cloud Application Services
It’s with great pleasure that we present to you our new brand and website, Iron.io. As a cloud application services provider, our…
IronWorker has a Shiny New Gem and a Shiny New API
Version 2 of the SimpleWorker API is now available featuring many new functions, a bunch of new documentation, and not…
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…
Video 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…
Video 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…