Iron Messages Service (Demo)

Iron Messages is a demo service + SDK used to illustrate how to write documentation that is fast to navigate, quick to get started with, and reliable as a long-term reference.

What it does

Iron Messages provides a small HTTP API for publishing and consuming messages.

Typical use cases:

• Trigger background jobs (email send, image resize)
• Decouple services with a lightweight message queue
• Build event-driven integrations

Who it’s for

• Backend engineers integrating a service API
• SDK consumers (Python example SDK)
• Operators who need clarity on auth, limits, and failure modes

High-level capabilities

• Publish messages with an idempotency key
• Consume messages and acknowledge processing
• Sandbox and production environments
• Predictable error model with retry guidance

Non-goals

• Exactly-once delivery (not guaranteed)
• Long-term archival storage of message payloads
• Streaming or pub/sub fan-out

Related docs

• Getting Started
• API / SDK Reference
• Examples
• Changelog / Release Notes

Architecture at a glance

flowchart LR
  Client[Client / SDK] -->|HTTPS| API[Messages API]
  API --> Q[(Message Store)]
  Worker[Consumer] -->|poll| API
  Worker -->|ack| API

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