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Iron.io Speaking on Docker in Production [Feb 11th]
Travis Reeder, CTO and co-founder at Iron.io, and Reed Allman, a systems engineer, will be talking about Docker in Production at an upcoming meetup. Luke Marsden from ClusterHQ, John Fiedler from RelateIQ, and Jérôme Petazzoni from Docker will also talk abou their experiences on the subject. The ClusterHQ meetup will be held on Wed, Feb 11th…
Read MoreThe Ephemeral Life of Dockerized Microservices
Overview When using the word ‘ephemeral’, it’s hard not to think of Snapchat these days, however, the concept applies to the on-demand computing pattern we promote here at Iron.io with our task processing service IronWorker. At a glance, each Docker container in which a task runs is only alive for the duration of the process…
Read MoreAWS Lambda vs IronWorker
Overview If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then consider us flattered by Amazon. The new AWS Lambda service is nearly the same thing as Iron.io’s IronWorker service, solving the same problem with a slightly different API. I took it on as a project recently to compare and contrast how each service works, how…
Read MoreMicroservices for Good: How Angel Flight West Uses Technology to Help People in Need
With the holiday season upon us, we thought it would be a fitting time to to highlight a wonderful non-profit organization and how they use technology for a great purpose. Angel Flight West : A Mission for Good
Read MoreIron.io Launches IronWorker within the Azure Marketplace
Iron.io is pleased to announce it is offering its IronWorker platform as an Application Service within the Azure Marketplace, providing a key infrastructure component that gives developers immediate access to highly scalable event-driven computing services. Every application in the cloud needs to process workloads on a continuous basis, at scale, on a schedule, or in…
Read MoreReed Allman Speaking on the RocksDB Meetup Dec 4th
Reed Allman, a systems-level engineer at Iron.io, will be talking at the RocksDB meetup on Thursday, December 4th, 2014. The meeting will be at the Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, CA.
Read MoreIron.io Adds Named Schedules
Iron.io is pleased to announce named schedules as a feature in its IronWorker service. Giving names or labels to schedules may seem a small feature but it’s been a common request from a number of users managing large workloads. Users can now give scheduled tasks labels when uploading the tasks to IronWorker or add them…
Read MoreDocker in Production — What We’ve Learned Launching Over 300 Million Containers
Docker in Production at Iron.io Overview Earlier this year, we made a decision to run every task on IronWorker inside its own Docker container. Since then, we’ve run over 300,000,000 programs inside of their own private Docker containers on cloud infrastructure. Now that we’ve been in production for several months, we…
Read MoreCEO Chad Arimura Speaking at Data 360 Conference on Real-time Data
Data 360° Conference (Oct 22-23, 2014) Chad Arimura, CEO and Co-Founder of Iron.io, will be speaking at the Data 360° Conference in Santa Clara this week. The conference brings together leading figures in data processing and analysis to discuss trends in big data, cloud infrastructure, real-time data analysis, and distributed computing. Specific emphasis is on…
Read MoreIron.io Adds Longer Running Workers
Long-Running Workers are Now Available in IronWorker Iron.io is happy to announce long-running workers are now available within IronWorker. Up until now, workers running on the platform have been limited to 60 minutes in duration. Users on Production and Enterprise plans or using Dedicated Clusters can now have workers that run for hours at…
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