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Buzzwords: Microservices, Containers and Serverless at Goto Chicago

Iron — Tue, 07 Jun 2016 11:26:16 +0000

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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How HotelTonight Streamlined their ETL Process Using IronWorker

Iron — Wed, 08 Apr 2015 05:44:20 +0000

HotelTonight has reinvented the task of finding and booking discounted hotel rooms at travel destinations. Designed for last-minute travel planners and optimized for the mobile era, HotelTonight connects adventure-seeking, impulse travelers with just-in-time available hotel rooms wherever they land. This model has the market-enhancing effect of reducing excess inventory of unused hotel rooms, while delivering…

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A Reminder App using Ruby, Google Docs, SendGrid, and Iron.io (SendGrid repost)

Iron — Mon, 06 Jan 2014 18:26:00 +0000

Nick Quinlan from SendGrid put out a nice post the other day on a simple app he created to email him daily goals. It's a short post but with some solid code behind it which adds a lot of value in our minds. (It's one thing talk about tech but it's another to turn it…

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Map-Reduce Capabilities and Super Easy Concurrency (via Alan deLevie and IronResponse)

Iron — Thu, 15 Aug 2013 21:02:00 +0000

We came across a great contribution the other day from Alan deLevie that makes using IronWorker for a map-reduce pattern even easier than it already is. (Love seeing tweets announcing additions to the growing list of Iron.io community addons.) I just wrote a gem that lets you write map-reduce style code using @getiron: https://t.co/49DNyLrXey. Makes…

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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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IronWorker has a Shiny New Gem and a Shiny New API

Iron — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 16:00:00 +0000

Version 2 of the SimpleWorker API is now available featuring many new functions, a bunch of new documentation, and not to mention it is a LOT faster and more robust as it is has been rewritten from the ground up. And all this comes along with a shiny new Ruby gem. The new gem uses…

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The Ruby Compute Cloud

Iron — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 23:46:00 +0000

One of the main uses of SimpleWorker is as a worker queue for running background jobs within a web application. A second use — and one that marks a big shift in the cloud — is that of a Ruby Compute Cloud. A Ruby Compute Cloud is the ability to run Ruby code in the…

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Parallelizing Ruby on the Cloud

Iron — Thu, 27 May 2010 00:25:00 +0000

So I’m sure we’ve all had the need to want to run multiple threads at once to optimize a part of our applications. There are several options like spinning up new Ruby threads (example from): pages = %w( www.rubycentral.com www.awl.com www.pragmaticprogrammer.com ) threads = [] pages.each do |page| threads << Thread.new(page) { |myPage| h = Net::HTTP.new(myPage, 80) log “Fetching: #{myPage}” resp, data = h.get(‘/’, nil ) # DO SOME PAGE PROCESSING AND STORE…

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