Learning from Facebook’s Outage

By Iron | October 2, 2015 |

Thanks to Kārlis Dambrāns for providing the base image. CC BY 2.0 Facebook’s suffered three outages this month; two of which occurred within the span of a week. Ouch. If you know any folks on the FB ops team, now’s a good time to buy ‘em a beer. Whenever a blip like this appears, it’s…

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2015 Container Summit notes and learnings, part 2

By Iron | September 25, 2015 |

Yesterday we shipped part 1 of our Container Summit notes. Today is a continuation! We’ll share a few of the other talks we enjoyed. In this post you’ll find stories from Wall Street veterans, open source giants, and nimble challengers.

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2015 Container Summit notes and learnings, Part 1

By Iron | September 24, 2015 |

A day ago I joined 700+ folks at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco to attend the 2015 Container Summit. Container’s are young, but one thing this event made clear is the forebears have been around quite a while. A favorite part of the summit was hearing war stories. That is, how containers are called on…

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Erin McKean on Master/slave vs Primary/replica

By Iron | September 21, 2015 |

Thanks to Vijayasarathi R. for the base image! CC BY 2.0 A couple months ago Drupal and Django switched from master/slave to new terminology. The goal was to adopt a term that’s more inclusive. When that happened, a big discussion kicked off around most of the Tech water coolers. With inclusiveness as a hot topic…

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$8 Million Series A Will Enable Iron.io To Take Its Mission to a New Level

By Iron | September 16, 2015 |

When Travis and I founded Iron.io, we set out to create a beautiful developer experience for scaling your apps job processing system. If you’ve written apps that had to scale, managing the sometimes millions of events and tasks using queues and workers is extremely painful, error prone, and let’s face it, non-strategic. This type of…

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At @SCALE 2015

By Iron | September 15, 2015 |

Yesterday I swung down to San Jose to listen to Facebook, Box, Google, Twitter, Microsoft and other leaders speak at the overflowing San Jose Convention Center. The @SCALE 2015 conference was a great opportunity to hear Tech titans speak. It was a scene of hungry minds and egalitarian ideals. If there’s a core takeaway from @SCALE,…

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E is for Event: A Fresh Take on ETL

By Iron | September 15, 2015 |

As a follow up to my previous post, The Workloads of the Internet of Things, I wanted to walk through a real world example that fully captures the principles of event-driven computing put forth. Let’s set the stage first… imagine we operate a windmill farm and want to continually track optimal weather conditions to maximize…

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When and Why for Microservices

By Iron | September 11, 2015 |

Thanks to Thomas Leuthard for the base image CC BY 2.0 Microservices are difficult. Don’t believe me? Let’s read a quote from Chris Richardson, the founder of CloudFoundry: When developing the first version of an application, you often do not have the problems that [the microservices] approach solves. Moreover, using an elaborate, distributed architecture will…

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Iron.io Now Available in Microsoft Azure Marketplace

By Iron | September 10, 2015 |

Iron.io continues to grow its ecosystem of value-added partners. To this point, today you can now find Iron.io solutions in the Application Services within the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. Azure users can now directly leverage Iron.io within their applications to respond to application events, decouple components as independent services, offload individual workloads, and schedule regular occurring…

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