IronMQ Long Polling

By Iron | May 6, 2014 |

Another one of our most requested features is now out in the wild: long polling. Long polling reduces the number of requests you need to make on an empty queue by not returning immediately when there are no messages available. Instead, IronMQ will wait until a message becomes available or until the “wait” time has…

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Iron.io Enhances Web and Mobile Capabilities with CORS Support

By Iron | March 14, 2014 |
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  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…

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Iron.io Launches Custom Runtime Environments for IronWorker

By Iron | March 12, 2014 |
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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…

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Iron.io Announces Alerts for IronMQ

By Iron | February 19, 2014 |
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  Alerts can now be set on queues to trigger actions. Iron.io is pleased to announce the release of alerts for IronMQ. IronMQ is a cloud-based message queuing service that offers high scale and high availability. It provides pull and push queues – meaning processes can get messages (pull) and events or the queue can…

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Iron.io Launches IronMQ in Europe

By Iron | February 5, 2014 |
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  IronMQ is now available in Europe Iron.io is happy to announce today the launch of IronMQ services in Europe. IronMQ EU provides the full functionality of IronMQ as is currently available in the US and is available to the public in general release. IronMQ offers two endpoints in Europe – AWS EU-West and Rackspace-LON.…

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Push Queues + Error Queues = Better Queue Processing

By Iron | January 7, 2014 |
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  Overview   IronMQ has had push queue capabilities for a while now. Push queues allow messages/payloads to be pushed to one or more endpoints and is a very popular feature. Within IronMQ push queues, up to 100 subscribers can be added – with the routing being either unicast (pushing to 1 subscriber) or multi-cast…

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IronMQ Fan-out Support

By Iron | July 24, 2013 |
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You can now add queues and workers as subscribers to your IronMQ queues so now a single message post can be pushed onto multiple queues and/or start IronWorker tasks. This is often referred to as “fan-out” and opens up a lot of interesting possibilities such as: Multiple consumers of a single message. Better decoupling by…

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Real-time Logging for IronWorker

By Iron | July 23, 2013 |
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Overview One of the most common feature requests we get for IronWorker is the ability to view logs in real-time while your workers are running. Until now, you had to wait for your IronWorker tasks to finish before being able to view the log and it can be pretty frustrating to try to debug your workers…

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Laravel 4 + IronMQ Push Queues = Insane Goodness

By Iron | May 2, 2013 |
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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.

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