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New Release: Job Fairness, More Generic Backend and New Gem

By Iron | August 12, 2011

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

By Iron | 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 Iron | 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 Iron | July 13, 2011

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

By Iron | June 14, 2011

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

By Iron | 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 Iron | June 8, 2011

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

By Iron | May 31, 2011

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

By Iron | May 22, 2011

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

By Iron | May 18, 2011

Chad Arimura will be speaking at the MongoSF conference next Tuesday, May 24th. He’ll be showing off the combination of…

By Iron | May 5, 2011

We’ve completed a major overhaul of the SimpleWorker interface and it is now live. The new interface is reorganized and…

By Iron | April 19, 2011

Performance is one of our primary goals for SimpleWorker and we’re happy to announce that we pushed out some major…