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Best practices for ElePHPants coding in Go

Iron — Mon, 30 Nov 2015 23:05:23 +0000

Thanks to Guido da Rozza for the base image CC BY 2.0 I’ve often coded in PHP. Recently, I realized that when I code in Go, it’s easier to spot my PHPisms. After weeks of cleaning them up, it only takes a day to fry my brain with them again. I’m sure I’m not the…

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Orchestrating PHP Dependencies with Composer and IronWorker

Iron — Fri, 19 Sep 2014 18:22:00 +0000

Package your dependencies on IronWorker using composer Overview This is a tutorial describing how to include and use the PHP package management tool Composer with IronWorker. Composer is a tool for dependency management in PHP. It allows you to declare the dependent libraries your project needs, and it will install them in your project for…

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Getting Pushy with Symfony2! (guest post)

Iron — Wed, 25 Jun 2014 15:30:00 +0000

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...…

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Going (Almost) Serverless with Iron.io

Iron — Thu, 01 May 2014 17:00:00 +0000

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…

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Using Iron.io Workers for Large Scale PHP posting with Laravel (a repost from Scott Wilcox)

Iron — Mon, 31 Mar 2014 06:17:00 +0000

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…

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Yii + IronMQ = Yiiron → Giving a Powerful PHP Framework Even More Juice

Iron — Tue, 16 Jul 2013 00:16:00 +0000

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,…

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IronWorker Goes Multi-Language! Now Supports Ruby, PHP, and Python

Iron — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:26:00 +0000

Today marks a big milestone in the evolution if IronWorker: multi-language support. In addition to Ruby which we've supported from day one, we now support PHP and Python with more languages on the way. Which means if you're using any one of those languages, you now have easy access to massive computing power. (boom) This new…

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