IronMQ and Heroku
I went to Chicago Ruby Hackfest tonight. We experimented with IronMQ and IronWorker. These products are cloud hosted compute grid/message queue products. I was able to build a Heroku app that listened for messages that I sent from a Ruby console in a matter of minutes. Here’s the code for the Heroku listener. Obviously, polling for messages is a pretty crude approach, an event based approach would be better. Unfortunately, if you want some sort of notification based approach you’ll have to roll your own.
Hey John!
Thanks for trying out Iron.io. Event based is coming very soon!
Hope everything went well at the hacknight. Sorry we couldn’t be there.
Chad
Comment by Chad Arimura — March 14, 2012 @ 9:04 pm
Very interesting. I don’t know much about IronMQ; is that a Micro$oft product? Or some cool open-source thing?
Comment by IndividualRich — March 14, 2012 @ 9:12 pm
Thanks Chad, An addition of event based/callback listener would be awesome. I think you could come up with a pretty simple work around where you poped all the messages off the queue and then went to sleep for a bit. For applications that weren’t latency sensitive that would be sufficient I think.
Rich, Not M$FT so far as I know. It’s pretty much platform independent.
Comment by John Murphy — March 14, 2012 @ 9:43 pm