Posts by Iron
#EastBayGo: Pareto Efficiencies and AOP with GoWeave
Special thanks to James Daisa for the base image! CC BY 2.0 The other night we headed over to the TurnItIn offices to get nerdy about Go. They hosted the first speaker-led event for the EastBayGo group. Full disclosure: I was one of the speakers! The Talks The Easiest Way to Develop with Go My talk…
Read More#SFRails: Scaling ElasticSearch + Advanced Ruby Tricks
Last night a near 100 folks showed up at Hotel Tonight’s swank downtown offices to get nerdy about Rails. There’s still a lot of excitement, innovation, and love happening in the Ruby world. After a bit of pre-show socialization with our fellow devs, the crowd settled in to hear the talks of the evening.
Read More#GoSF: Identity, Safe Secrets, and IoT Friendly Languages
The Go gopher was designed by Renee French. CC BY 3.0 US Last night’s meetup, which was hosted by Betable, included two presentations and two lightning talks rounding out a solid evening for the GoSF group. Topics included identity on the web, safe storage of tokens (beyond ENV vars), and even the debut of a…
Read MoreWhy Iron.io Joined the Cloud Foundry Foundation
As of today, Iron.io formally joined the Cloud Foundry Foundation, the community behind the rapidly growing open source Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). With this exciting news, I wanted to take a quick moment to reflect on what brought us here, and where we see ourselves moving towards.
Read MoreMessage Queues & Workers: the Heart of Modern Infrastructure
Thanks to Sonny Abesamis for the base image! CC BY 2.0 Increasingly, message queues and workers are intertwined with the language of modern infrastructure. You might rely on explicit solutions like IronMQ or IronWorker. You might not. Whether you do or don’t is irrelevant: MQs and workers are in everything these days. MQs and workers…
Read MoreHelpful hints: Pre-commit
I had a lot of fun sharing pre-commit with everyone earlier this week. In case you missed it, here’s a link. As a follow up, I whipped together a quick How-To video. In it, you’ll follow along as I add a pre-commit hook to a brand new Node.js project. Init a git repo locally, and you can the same…
Read MorePolyglot microservices need pre-commit + git
Microservices are great! Or, at least that’s what the internet keeps telling me. There are a lot of upsides, but there are more than a few challenges too. For example, microservices are a polyglot’s dream. Have a Rails app and a use case where Ruby seems a bit too slow? No problem, microservices and…
Read MoreFavorites from GitHub Universe
Remember when enterprise shied away from Open Source software? I sure do. The times they aren’t a changin’. Led to by the desire to cut costs and create better products, companies are embracing open source. Business today runs on a mix of open and closed solutions. Nowhere was this more apparent than at the inaugural…
Read MoreFAQ Series: What is an overlord-minion architecture?
What do you do when even batch processing can’t save you? Yaron suggests giving the overlord-minion pattern a try. The first step to speed is usually batch processing. All that’s needed there is a server + queue. When the server is ready to work, it grabs a batch of requests from the queue. This works…
Read MoreNotes from Gotham Go
Last week, I had the pleasure of joining gophers at Gotham Go. It was a incredibly dense single day of information. What follows is a quick impression of each talk, along with links to more detailed material. Special thanks to Peggy Li for tossing her notes on github! UPDATE: VODs are appearing online now. You…
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