Lumen Iron Worker What and why A worker is a great way to run tasks as needed taking the load off your applications server and greatly speeding up the process of a task as you can run numerous workers at once. A lot of this comes from http://dev.iron.io/worker/beta/getting_started/ and http://dev.iron.io/worker/beta/cli/ and their examples Topics covered Creating a Lumen Worker Creating a statically linked binary in the worker Testing the worker locally with Docker Entering your docker environment Design patterns Install Lumen composer create-project laravel/lumen --prefer-dist Add to composer.
