pjfanning commented on PR #1898: URL: https://github.com/apache/pekko-connectors/pull/1898#issuecomment-5513482706
Is IronMQ supported? - via Claude AI — the hosted service still exists, but the ecosystem around it has been dormant for years. The clearest signal is from Apache Camel, which formally deprecated its IronMQ component in May 2026. The maintainer noted the official Java library's last release was in 2017, all the other client libraries have been unmaintained for the same length of time, and the iron-io GitHub organization shows almost no activity. Third-party integrations (Laravel, Yii2, PHP queue drivers) similarly last shipped around 2015–2016. The business itself changed hands: Iron.io was acquired by Xenon Ventures in late 2017, with a promise to continue developing IronWorker and IronMQ, while the founders left for Oracle. The company still markets IronMQ and IronWorker, and its blog was still publishing content in the early 2020s, so the SaaS is running. But recent user reviews aren't reassuring — one G2 reviewer reported frequent service outages requiring support contact, with the status page lagging behind actual problems. So if you're evaluating it for something new: the SDKs are stale, the open-source footprint is stagnant, and a major integration framework has just marked it deprecated. If you're already on it, it hasn't been shut down, but treat it as a maintenance-mode product and have a migration plan (SQS, RabbitMQ, NATS, or Redis-backed queues are the usual destinations). -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
