Posts Tagged ‘IronMQ’
Getting Pushy with Symfony2! (guest post)
This is a guest post from Keith Kirk who is VP Engineering at Underground Elephant. Message queues are not a new concept – neither is Push Notifications and surely not HTTP Posts for that matter. However, when you combine these ideas you have a very flexible queueing system. Sprinkle in a little bit of Symfony’s EventDispatcher……
Read MoreIronMQ Long Polling
Another one of our most requested features is now out in the wild: long polling. Long polling reduces the number of requests you need to make on an empty queue by not returning immediately when there are no messages available. Instead, IronMQ will wait until a message becomes available or until the “wait” time has…
Read MoreIron.io Joins Red Hat’s OpenShift Marketplace
The OpenShift Marketplace Iron.io is pleased to announce its IronMQ and IronWorker solutions are part of the OpenShift Marketplace. The marketplace is an important component to Red Hat’s OpenShift Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) in that it lets developers combine the benefits of enterprise PaaS with tightly integrated, complementary solutions – all without losing time on technology…
Read MoreHow Edeva Uses MongoDB and IronMQ to Power Real-time Intelligent Traffic Systems
Edeva AB develops and markets intelligent traffic systems. Their product is a dynamic speed bump called Actibump. The selective system makes it possible to handle the compromise in accessibility, traffic flow and speed control, which is not possible with static speed bumps. Actibump consists of one or more road modules that are mounted into a…
Read MoreIron.io Launches on Pivotal Cloud Foundry Platform
Iron.io is proud to announce that IronMQ and IronWorker are now available as add-on services on Pivotal’s web-based Platform-as-a-Service (PAAS) which is available at https://run.pivotal.io and runs the open source Cloud Foundry platform. Run.pivotal provides app developers with a powerful option to rapidly deploy and scale new applications. The recent launch of Pivotal CF – a…
Read MoreIron.io Announces Alerts for IronMQ
Alerts can now be set on queues to trigger actions. Iron.io is pleased to announce the release of alerts for IronMQ. IronMQ is a cloud-based message queuing service that offers high scale and high availability. It provides pull and push queues – meaning processes can get messages (pull) and events or the queue can…
Read MoreIron.io Launches IronMQ in Europe
IronMQ is now available in Europe Iron.io is happy to announce today the launch of IronMQ services in Europe. IronMQ EU provides the full functionality of IronMQ as is currently available in the US and is available to the public in general release. IronMQ offers two endpoints in Europe – AWS EU-West and Rackspace-LON.…
Read MoreIronHack Deep Dive: Iron TicTacToe
This past week we crowned a winner for our Iron Holiday Hack. It was a one week virtual hackathon where participants built apps that were useful, beautiful, informative, or just plain cool. David Jones built an awesome little project called Iron TicTacToe that hit the mark on the goals of the challenge. The application was…
Read MoreNeed a Mobile Backend? Try OpenShift. (SendGrid article)
SendGrid on Mobile Backend Services SendGrid put out a nice post on their blog the other day on what to look for with mobile backends. Kunal Batra is a developer evangelist at-large for SendGrid and did some work with Redhat’s OpenShift platform recently. In the post, Kunal lays out a simple case for why this platform…
Read MorePush Queues + Error Queues = Better Queue Processing
Overview IronMQ has had push queue capabilities for a while now. Push queues allow messages/payloads to be pushed to one or more endpoints and is a very popular feature. Within IronMQ push queues, up to 100 subscribers can be added – with the routing being either unicast (pushing to 1 subscriber) or multi-cast…
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