Queue Your Way To Scalability

Introduction

The first thing I did when I started programming in Go was begin porting my Windows utilities classes and service frameworks over to Linux. This is what I did when I moved from C++ to C#. Thank goodness, I soon learned about Iron.IO (http://www.iron.io/) and the services they offered. Then it hit me, if I wanted true scalability, I needed to start building worker tasks that could be queued to run anywhere at any time. It was not about how many machines I needed, it was about how much compute time I needed.