FAQ Archives - The Iron.io Blog https://blog.iron.io/tag/faq/ Scalable serverless application tools to run background tasks with Docker containers and manage messaging queues with cloud elasticity and handheld customer support. Sun, 17 Jan 2021 00:21:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://blog.iron.io/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/cropped-iron-avatar-1-32x32.png FAQ Archives - The Iron.io Blog https://blog.iron.io/tag/faq/ 32 32 FAQ Series: What is an overlord-minion architecture? https://blog.iron.io/faq-series-what-is-an-overlord-minion-architecture/ https://blog.iron.io/faq-series-what-is-an-overlord-minion-architecture/#respond Wed, 07 Oct 2015 03:50:40 +0000 http://ironio2016.wpengine.com//blog/?p=1100 What do you do when even batch processing can’t save you? Yaron suggests giving the overlord-minion pattern a try. The first step to speed is usually batch processing. All that’s needed there is a server + queue. When the server is ready to work, it grabs a batch of requests from the queue. This works…

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