Ruby on Rails Archives - The Iron.io Blog https://blog.iron.io/tag/ruby-on-rails/ Scalable serverless application tools to run background tasks with Docker containers and manage messaging queues with cloud elasticity and handheld customer support. Thu, 20 Jul 2023 16:25:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://blog.iron.io/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/cropped-iron-avatar-1-32x32.png Ruby on Rails Archives - The Iron.io Blog https://blog.iron.io/tag/ruby-on-rails/ 32 32 IronWorker vs. Ruby/Rails Worker https://blog.iron.io/ironworker-vs-ruby-rails-worker/ https://blog.iron.io/ironworker-vs-ruby-rails-worker/#respond Wed, 23 Dec 2020 19:42:37 +0000 https://blog.iron.io/?p=7771 Overview Architecture: IronWorker is an on-demand async task processing software for container-based workloads. Ruby on Rails (or Rails) is a server-side web application framework written in the programming language Ruby. Note: A "worker" on IronWorker Rails is a priority queue system that executes tasks outside of the application framework.  IronWorker is created on the Docker container…

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]]> https://blog.iron.io/ironworker-vs-ruby-rails-worker/feed/ 0 Buzzwords: Microservices, Containers and Serverless at Goto Chicago https://blog.iron.io/buzzwords-microservices-containers-serverless-goto-chicago/ https://blog.iron.io/buzzwords-microservices-containers-serverless-goto-chicago/#respond Tue, 07 Jun 2016 11:26:16 +0000 https://www.iron.io/?p=6206 It was an honor to give a talk on the future of Serverless at goto Chicago, an enterprise developer conference running from May 24 to 25, 2016. As you can see from the full room, containers, microservices and serverless are popular topics with developers, and this interest extends across a wide swath of back-end languages,…

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]]> https://blog.iron.io/buzzwords-microservices-containers-serverless-goto-chicago/feed/ 0 Rails Meetup March 2016: Rails Performance Optimization, Bundler, + Internationalization­ https://blog.iron.io/rails-meetup-march-2016-rails-performance-optimization-bundler-internationalization%c2%ad/ https://blog.iron.io/rails-meetup-march-2016-rails-performance-optimization-bundler-internationalization%c2%ad/#respond Thu, 07 Apr 2016 19:20:19 +0000 https://www.iron.io/?p=6070 At Iron.io, we love to give back to the coding community in our hometown of San Francisco by hosting developer events through the SF Rails Meetup and the GoSF Golang Meetup. Our March 2016 meetup was a triple threat of talks on performance optimization, dependency management, and internationalization. Andre Arko (@indirect), the Lead developer of…

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