Posts Tagged ‘IronMQ’
Yii + IronMQ = Yiiron → Giving a Powerful PHP Framework Even More Juice
Yii is a high-performance PHP framework designed for developing scalable applications. It is a well proven and stable framework with a large following. Yii comes with rich features – MVC, ActiveRecord, internationalization, caching, authentication, role-based access control, scaffolding, testing, more. All these features translate into drastically reduced app development times, more readable code logic,…
Read MoreIronMQ Now Available on Rackspace ORD (Chicago)
We’re happy to announce that IronMQ is now available in the Rackspace Chicago (ORD) region. A year and a half ago, we launched IronMQ on Rackspace in their Dallas / Fort Worth (DFW) region and today we’re expanding our footprint into another Rackspace data center. Our mission for IronMQ is to be the message queue for the…
Read MoreIron.io Announces Agent Processing for Powering New Relic Plugins
Today Iron.io announces powerful agent processing capabilities for powering third-party plugins for the New Relic Platform. New Relic has opened up its SaaS service to provide building blocks for creating monitoring capabilities for any technology or service. Performance metrics from IT components and cloud services can now be brought directly into New Relic and viewed…
Read MoreSendGrid + IronMQ: The Power of Webhook-Centric Architectures
A suite of examples showcasing the power of webhooks using Iron.io and SendGrid. At Iron.io, we believe strongly that there is a new model of application architectures that is becoming not only viable, but the most powerful way to build your application. More and more applications will be built not using static servers and direct integrations, but instead…
Read MoreBlacksmith – an IronMQ client for .NET
Blacksmith is a .NET client for IronMQ that was created by Khalid Abuhakmeh from Aqua Bird Consulting. Khalid recently posted a great article on the reasons behind it and how to use it. Blog Post on BlackSmith (Tech.Pro) What’s interesting is that Aqua Bird added some capabilities of their own into the client including serialization specific to .Net as…
Read MoreLaravel 4 + IronMQ Push Queues = Insane Goodness
Laravel is an increasingly popular PHP framework with a strong and growing following. If you’re a PHP developer, it’s a framework to seriously explore if not dig in and put to good use. The design principles are centered around a clean framework that uses a simple, expressive syntax.
Read MoreIron.io Joins OpenStack to Drive Open Cloud Message Queues
Iron.io is now an OpenStack supporter. This may not appear all that unusual – given the top companies originally behind the initiative plus the growing numbers joining – but it is noteworthy for a cloud services company. With most cloud services, it shouldn’t really matter what the underlying IT stack or even what cloud you’re…
Read MoreIronMQ Handling 250M Requests Per Day, IronWorker Executing Over 500K Jobs
This month, Iron.io hit two major milestones in our usage numbers for two of our services. IronMQ is now handling over 250 million requests per day (== 174K per minute == 2,900 per second). This is up from 100 million just three months ago. Also, IronWorker is now executing over 500,000 jobs (tasks) per day.…
Read MoreCloud Messaging Protocol: AMQP vs HTTP
We saw a recent post from GitHub about removing the AMQP service from GitHub Services and passed it around the team as an item of interest. Got to talking later on that evening away from the keyboard and realized it has bigger meaning than just a side note. Recent GitHub Blog Post…
Read MoreIron.io + OpenShift : PaaS 2.0 for the Enterprise
Iron.io is pleased to announce we are now a developer partner on OpenShift. OpenShift is Red Hat’s auto-scaling Platform as a Service (PaaS). Red Hat has a rich history when it comes to technology and large IT systems and, with OpenShift, they’re on a serious path to make history happen again, this time in the…
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