Posts Tagged ‘IronMQ’
Why Large Scale Drupal Users Need Iron.io To Increase Application Responsiveness
We’re always pleased to receive stories about how Iron.io products have helped make peoples’ lives easier. This is the story about how Schwartz Media from the land down under, addressed the challenging task of managing and deploying multiple Drupal sites on the Pantheon platform. Owen Kelly is the Director of Technology at Schwartz Media, publisher…
Read MoreIron.io Releases Enhanced Security Package – IP Whitelisting, VPN, and VPC Support
Iron.io is pleased to announce the release of an enhanced security package for our IronMQ and IronWorker platforms. This package includes access to virtual IP addresses and support for virtual private networks (VPN) and virtual private clouds (VPC). Elastic IP Addresses (EIP) – This feature provides access to the list of virtual IP addresses…
Read MoreSmart Endpoints. Smart Pipes. Smarter Microservices.
Overview: This is the second post in a series on microservices. Read our previous post on the service computing environment: The Ephemeral Life of Dockerized Microservices. The use of microservices is a growing trend in application development because it provides an answer to the overhead incurred by monolithic applications. The practice of breaking apart…
Read MoreHow to Build an ETL Pipeline for ElasticSearch Using Segment and Iron.io
Overview ETL is a common pattern in the big data world for collecting and consolidating data for storage and/or analysis. Here’s the basic process: Extract data from a variety of sources Transform data through a set of custom processes Load data to external databases or data warehouses Segment + Iron.io + Elasticsearch = A…
Read MoreMessage Queues for Buffering: An IronMQ and Python Case Study
Using IronMQ and Python to as a Buffer between Systems Connecting systems and moderating data flows between them is not an easy task. Message queues are designed for just this purpose – buffering data between systems so that each can operate independently and asynchronously. Here’s a short article on using IronMQ to buffer a CMS…
Read MoreSegment.io adds Iron.io as an endpoint for message queueing
Iron.io + Segment.io = Integration Goodness IronMQ has just been added as an endpoint for message queueing within Segment.io. Segment.io provides a single gateway that lets developers, marketers, and analysts pipe logs, metrics, user actions, and other key app data to hundreds of other applications and tools. The Segment.io API acts as a control for…
Read MoreHow One Developer Serves Millions of Beers: Untappd + Iron.io
Untappd – The Mobile App for Beer Lovers Untappd provides a mobile check-in application for beer lovers. Their application has been downloaded by over a million users and on any given night, they can register over 300,000 individual checkins and social sharing events. The Untappd application lets users record their beer selections, share their likes…
Read MoreIron.io Increases Message Size in IronMQ
Message Size Increases from 64KB to 256KB Large message sizes are now available within IronMQ. We have increased the message size from 64KB to 256KB. This increase was originally in response to some uses cases around XML but also allows the service to handle almost every need possible when it comes to messaging. The increased…
Read MoreIntroducing IronMQ Enterprise
Cloud-Native Message Queuing Now Available On-Premise Message Queuing for Public, Private, and Hybrid Clouds Today we’re excited to release IronMQ Enterprise, our cloud-native message queuing technology for large enterprise and carrier-grade workloads. IronMQ Enterprise features a more advanced backend persistence layer, improved message throughput, and latency, and, for the first time, deployment options for on-premise,…
Read MoreIronMQ Enterprise: Powered by IronMQ v3
Delivering Improved Performance + On-Premise and Hybrid Cloud Options Today we announced IronMQ Enterprise, a set of offerings that includes more flexible configuration options including deployment on-premise and within private clouds as well as improved performance around message throughput and latency. At the heart of this release is IronMQ v3, our latest version of IronMQ.…
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