Posts by Iron
AWS EC2: P2 vs P3 instances
Amazon announced its latest generation of general-purpose GPU instances (P3) the other day, almost exactly a year after the launch of its first general-purpose GPU offering (P2). While the CPUs on both suites of instance types are similar (both Intel Broadwell Xeon’s), the GPUs definitely improved. Note that the P2/P3 instance types are well suited…
Read MoreIron.io at The Machine Learning Conference
Attending MLconf in San Francisco on November 10th? If so, come say hello! We’ve been seeing more and more customers hiring machine learning talent in order to tackle operational efficiencies and hone in on their forecasting. Iron’s platform is helping in almost all phases of the process, from ETL operations helping with the…
Read MoreGPU support in IronWorker
Overview In the past few months, we’ve spoken to quite a few customers that have added Machine Learning (ML) tasks into IronWorker. The problem is, these tasks can take a significant amount of time on a CPU vs a GPU. GPU’s were built to handle the parallelization of complex matrix/vector operations that gaming required, and…
Read MoreRobotics with Iron
We recently sponsored a robotics event in Tokyo held by OnLab, DigitalGarage and Psygig… and, it was awesome. Also, yes… the course below was an actual course from the event. The participants were to break into teams, build a drone, implement machine learning techniques, gather and analyze data via Iron, and maneuver their drone across multiple…
Read MoreFull Circle and Ramping up at Iron.io
Iron.io was recently acquired by Xenon Ventures, a private equity, and venture capital firm. Xenon Ventures is headed by Jonathan Siegel, a serial entrepreneur who has founded many popular software services and has made just as many successful acquisitions. Here comes the full circle. What may not know, is that Jonathan was Iron.io’s first customer…
Read MoreTop 10 Uses For A Message Queue
Overview We’ve been working with, building, and evangelizing message queues for the last year, and it’s no secret that we think they’re awesome. We believe message queues are a vital component to any architecture or application, which is why we’ve put so much work into IronMQ. As you consider these 10 reasons, look into the ways…
Read MoreIn Books: The San Francisco Fallacy
One of Iron’s original investors, Jonathan Siegel, released a book this week that any entrepreneur (or anybody who’s worked in the bay area) should definitely read. It’s titled, “The San Francisco Fallacy: The Ten Fallacies That Make Founders Fail“, and Jonathan does an amazing job writing about his personal experiences in the art and science…
Read MoreSecuring Serverless
Guy Podjarny published a great blog post discussing the Serverless space from a security perspective. I highly recommend reading it as it touches on some great points, going over both the security benefits and possible risks. Two points he made definitely stood out to me, and the first was the concept of a greater attack…
Read MoreWhy use a Message Queue?
Overview: When building an application, there usually comes a time when it makes sense to add a Message Queue. You can get pretty far with a RDMS or a It happened here at Iron. Table of Contents: Decoupling Redundancy Scalability Elasticity & Spikability Resiliency Delivery Guarantees Ordering Guarantees Buffering Understanding Data Flow Asynchronous Communication Achieve…
Read MoreIronFunctions Alpha 2
Today we are excited to announce the second alpha release of IronFunctions, the language-agnostic serverless microservices platform that you can run anywhere; on public, private, and hybrid clouds, even on your own laptop. The initial release of IronFunctions received some amazing feedback and we’ve spent the past few months fixing many of the issues reported. Aside…
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