Posts Tagged ‘IronWorker’
Going (Almost) Serverless with Iron.io
The NoisyTwit App This is a guest post by Dieter Van der Stock, a full-stack developer in Antwerp, Belgium. In it, he talks about his experience building NoisyTwit and how the combination of HTML/JavaScript, PHP, OAuth.io, and Iron.io made for a simple but scalable solution. Modern app development doesn’t need to be complicated as…
Read MoreHow Docker Helped Us Achieve the (Near) Impossible
Docker Solved a Key Problem Ever since we started Iron.io, we’ve been trying to solve a problem: how to keep our IronWorker containers up to date with newer language runtimes and Linux packages. For the past two years, IronWorker has been using the same, unchanged run-time environment. That is until a couple of weeks…
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 MoreUsing Iron.io Workers for Large Scale PHP posting with Laravel (a repost from Scott Wilcox)
Scalable Workers in Laravel One of the fun parts about working at Iron.io is being able to connect with developers working on some great projects. One of these is Scott Wilcox, the developer of Tweekly.fm. His service posts Last.fm events to Twitter and has been growing in popular the last several months. Scott wrote a great post…
Read MoreIron.io Enhances Web and Mobile Capabilities with CORS Support
Iron.io adds CORS support Iron.io is pleased to announce the introduction of support for Cross-origin Resource Sharing (CORS). This capability means that developers have even easier access to the Iron.io platform from desktop and mobile browsers and other client devices. CORS is an HTML5 feature that supports cross-domain communication across web clients and…
Read MoreIron.io Launches Custom Runtime Environments for IronWorker
Overview Iron.io announced today the introduction of custom language environments within its IronWorker processing platform. Instead of a single standard environment, developers can now define runtime environments and write workers for specific language versions. IronWorker already supports all common languages including PHP, Ruby, Python, .NET, Node.js, Java, Go, and binary files, but this release adds…
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 MoreHow One User Automated a Research Study with IronWorker and Twilio (a repost from Usability Panda)
Katarzyna Stawarz, a PhD student at University College London, wrote a really nice blog post on using Twilio and IronWorker to communicate via SMS. She was conducting a study that tested a method of habit formation research and needed a way to send out reminders to participants at specific times during the day, every day,…
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 MoreA Reminder App using Ruby, Google Docs, SendGrid, and Iron.io (SendGrid repost)
Nick Quinlan from SendGrid put out a nice post the other day on a simple app he created to email him daily goals. It’s a short post but with some solid code behind it which adds a lot of value in our minds. (It’s one thing talk about tech but it’s another to turn it…
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