Case Study: OutCast achieves scalable mobile weather data processing with Iron.io

OutCast - Customer Case Study

OutCast built a mobile app for marine weather forecasts with iOS and Android front ends backed by Go-based APIs on Heroku, but the real challenge was handling continuous data collection and processing from hundreds of web pages every ten minutes. To manage this behind-the-scenes workload, OutCast used Iron.io, specifically the IronWorker service, for scheduling, task orchestration, and distributed processing.

With Iron.io, OutCast runs Go workers every ten minutes to gather, transform, and load weather data into MongoDB, while also using logging and monitoring tools to track activity and errors. The result is a highly automated, scalable backend that keeps the app’s forecasts current around the clock, with centralized observability through the Iron.io dashboard and log integrations like Papertrail and InfluxDB.

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