Posts Tagged ‘IronWorker’
How Kuhcoon uses IronWorker and Node.js to improve social media advertising
[This post is part of a series of customer success stories that Chad Arimura is putting together highlighting key customers and how they are using Iron.io to do some pretty big things.] Kuhcoon offers a suite of tools built around the management and optimization of social media advertising for businesses. They provide two tools – a…
Read MoreHow a simple Node.js project turned into Iron Scheduler (guest post)
This is a guest post from David Hessing, Director of Data Analytics at Appirio, on how a simple project to teach himself Node.js turned into Iron Scheduler, a powerful scheduling tool built on top of IronWorker. The Power of Task Processing in the Cloud [David Hessing] I remember coming across Iron.io’s services and immediately being intrigued. IronWorker…
Read MoreMessage Queues, Background Processing and the End of the Monolithic App (reposted from Heroku blog)
Here’s a post of ours on message queuing and background processing that we published on the Heroku blog the other day. Definitely worth checking out if you believe like us that distributed multi-tier architectures are the future of production-scale cloud applications. Iron.io Guest Post on Heroku Message Queues, Background Processing and the End of the Monolithic…
Read MoreIronSharp — .NET Client Library for Iron.io (a contribution from a user)
IronSharp is a great new contribution from a long-time supporter and user of IronMQ, IronWorker, and IronCache. Jeremy Bell created IronSharp to provide updated access in .NET to all Iron.io services. It’s a simple solid library that wraps the API calls for IronMQ, IronWorker, and IronCache and includes support for the latest Iron.io features. (It…
Read MoreIronCast 4: How to connect to your database from IronWorker – IronWorker 101 Part 4/4
In a series of four IronCasts, we will provide a high-level introduction to using IronWorker, an easy-to-use scalable task queue. In this series, we will be using an example application which is written in Rails. However, the same concept applies to every language or framework.
Read MoreIronCast 3: How to rapidly prototype locally with IronWorker – IronWorker 101 Part 3/4
In a series of four IronCasts, we will provide a high-level introduction to using IronWorker, an easy-to-use scalable task queue. In this series, we will be using an example application which is written in Rails. However, the same concept applies to every language or framework. In this video, we will show you how to prototype…
Read MoreIronCast 2: What is a worker file? – IronWorker 101 Part 2/4
In a series of four IronCasts, we will provide a high-level introduction to using IronWorker, an easy-to-use scalable task queue. In this series, we will be using an example application which is written in Rails. However, the same concept applies to every language or framework.
Read MoreRunning Go on IronWorker (reposted)
Going Go: Running Go Programs in IronWorker We came across a great post by William Kennedy on running Go tasks in IronWorker. It’s a detailed article that had a few of our developer evangelists a bit envious in the care and detail it takes in walking developers through the process. (Using IronWorker is not difficult…
Read MoreIronCast 1: Introduction to IronWorker – IronWorker 101 Part 1/4
In a series of four IronCasts, we will provide a high-level introduction to using IronWorker. IronWorker is an easy-to-use scalable task queue that gives cloud developers a simple way to offload front-end tasks, run scheduled jobs, and process tasks in the background and at scale. These videocasts will cover core concepts including: Deploying a worker…
Read MoreHow Untappd Reduced App Response Times with Iron.io
[This post is part of a series of customer success stories that Chad Arimura is putting together highlighting key customers and how they are using Iron.io to do some pretty big things.] Untappd is a mobile location based service for beer lovers that allows users to log, rate and discover new beers, venues and people.…
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