IronMQ Archives

Using IronMQ as a Celery Broker

By Iron | February 18, 2013 |

We are developers because we love to build stuff. Whether we’re building an e-commerce site, a mobile game, or a network of connected devices, we love the thrill of solving problems and innovating. Modern frameworks that save us time in the plumbing allow us to focus on our own innovations – ultimately making us happier…

ProQuest’s Scalable, No Maintenance Cloud Stack

By Iron | January 22, 2013 |

ProQuest chose IronMQ as a key part of their stack while building the website for WorldRiderz, a documentary on the Discovery Channel. They needed a robust, elastic and scalable architecture. Due to the nature of the project, traffic was always going to be patchy, with periods of heavy traffic, followed by idle periods, so controlling costs and being able…

Common Actions on Messages in a Queue

By Iron | January 16, 2013 |

Overview In a previous post, we talked about our ten favorite uses for a message queue. The uses laid out the architectural benefits of putting a message queue in place as a key component within a distributed system. The writers at HighScalability did us one better with their description of a message queue in…

IronMQ Push Queues – Reliable Message Delivery for the Cloud

By Iron | January 11, 2013 |

Overview IronMQ Push Queues adds notification capabilities to your queues allowing you to send messages to other systems in a scalable, flexible, and cost-effective way. You simply add subscribers, which are HTTP endpoints, to your IronMQ queues then any message you post to your queue will be reliably delivered to the subscribers. Table of…

Peek, Touch and Release

By Iron | January 7, 2013 |

IronMQ now supports three new operations: peek, touch and release. These operations give you greater control over handling your messages and here’s a brief explanation of each. Table of Contents: A little background on the message lifecycle Peek Touch Release Achieve Cloud Elasticity with Iron Speak to us to find how you can achieve…

Queue Webhook Events with IronMQ Webhook Support

By Iron | January 2, 2013 |

You can now use IronMQ as a webhook endpoint to collect webhook events/messages from third parties. This new feature supports arbitrary HTTP POSTs to an IronMQ queue and it will store the body of the POST in your queue.

IronMQ Handles 100 Million Messages a Day

By Iron | December 28, 2012 |

Overview Iron.io reached a key milestone on Christmas Eve this year. IronMQ, our cloud-based message queue, reached its first 100 million messages per day mark. To put this in perspective, Salesforce recently announced it’s handling 1B transactions/day. Twitter has 140MM users tweeting 500MM times a day and Github records 500,000 events per day. Handling 100…

Elastic, Highly Available Backend for Delayed Job: IronMQ

By Iron | August 14, 2012 |

Want an easy, scalable, highly available, zero maintenance Delayed Job backend? Look no further. Here’s a Delayed Job (DJ) backend gem that uses IronMQ. You can set it up in minutes and never have to worry about it again: Delayed::Job IronMQ

IronMQ + EngineYard

By Iron | August 2, 2012 |

We’re pleased to announce IronMQ is now a preferred add-on on the Engine Yard platform. IronMQ joins IronWorker on Engine Yard to let developers do even bigger things with their applications by providing industrial-strength ways to scale out processing and pass messages between independent processes.

IronMQ is now on AppHarbor

By Iron | March 22, 2012 |

Today, we’re pleased to announce that IronMQ is now included as a supported add-on for AppHarbor, the leading cloud platform for .NET developers. It’s a great combination and we’re thrilled to be partners.