Using IronMQ as a Celery Broker

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…

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Improvement to HUD – How to Better Manage Your Tasks

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We did a post the other day on improvements we made to the IronMQ HUD to make it easier to manage your message queues. We also made some changes to the HUD to make it easier to manage your tasks and scheduled jobs. Here’s the major changes for the IronWorker HUD.

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Improvement to HUD – How to Better Manage Your Queues

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If you’re an Iron.io user, you’ve probably noticed improvements in our HUD over the last few months. We’ve gotten great input from customers on what they wanted to see and we took that to heart. We also released some new features like push queues and needed a way to bring them out within the dashboard.…

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New Feature: Auto Retry for IronWorker

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Overview IronWorker now has an auto-retry feature that, if enabled, will automatically retry your tasks if they error out. You can set the number of times it should retry and the delay between retries. Usage While uploading your worker, simply set the retries and retries-delay parameters: iron_worker upload my_worker –retries 5 –retries-delay 10 That example…

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IronWorker’s Most Requested Feature is Here: Max Concurrency

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Overview Too many lemmings and you’ve got a problem. Being able to limit how many worker tasks can run at once has been one of the most requested features of IronWorker and it is available now! There are many reasons this feature is so important, here are a few of the more common use cases…

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.NET Just Got Some Iron Behind It

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IronWorker now supports .NET so you can run .NET code at scale. Let your .NET workers process big data, send massive notifications, collect data from API’s, schedule tasks, etc. All in the cloud, no servers required. Here’s a quick Hello Worker example so you can see how easy it is to get started.

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The New IronWorker Command Line Interface and .worker Files

We have created a shiny new command line interface (CLI) and a brand new way to define your workers to make uploading your worker code a lot easier and quicker. This should fit much better into the typical developer workflow so you can push to your git repo and upload your workers from the command…

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Iron.io Releases IronCache (Beta)

Iron.io is pleased to announce a soft-launch/beta release of IronCache, a hosted key/value data cache. It’s an elastic cloud-based solution built for storing short-term processing results and passing items between asynchronous processes. IronCache is useful for many situations where a database alone isn’t an optimal solution. The service is accessible via a simple HTTP interface…

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