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Intel: Accelerating Enterprise Innovation with Iron.io
Intel launched the OpenStack Innovation Center to build new pools of developers who write applications that run on enterprise clouds, and who understand that as they write the code for these clouds, it’s based on best practices of operational experience. Intel is also working with Mirantis, Rackspace and CoreOS to make OpenStack…
Read MoreIntroducing Lambda support on Iron.io
Overview Serverless computing has become a compelling model for companies to add business value without their development teams having to worry about provisioning, managing, and scaling infrastructure. The concept is that developers write code that performs business logic based on some specific input data, and the platform handles the details of: Where to run it: Use some machine…
Read MoreSAP TV Asks Iron.io to Explain Microservices
Recently, SAP TV asked Iron.io CEO and Co-founder Chad Arimura to explain mircoservices in 60 seconds. It was great to have Chad included in SAP’s “Meet the Innovators” series. We’re sharing the video with you here, not only because it is a concise explanation of microservices, but it’s clear from hearing Chad speak why all of us…
Read MoreMicrocontainers, and Logging in Docker: Iron.io CTO speaks at Docker NYC
Travis Reeder, the co-founder and CTO of Iron.io, spoke at last night’s Docker NYC meetup about Microcontainers. In addition, Hermann Hesse of Sumo Logic spoke about Logging in Docker. Iron.io is a big proponent of microcontainers, which are minimalistic docker containers that can still process full-fledged jobs. We’ve seen microcontainers gaining traction amongst software architects and developers because their…
Read MoreRails Meetup March 2016: Rails Performance Optimization, Bundler, + Internationalization
At Iron.io, we love to give back to the coding community in our hometown of San Francisco by hosting developer events through the SF Rails Meetup and the GoSF Golang Meetup. Our March 2016 meetup was a triple threat of talks on performance optimization, dependency management, and internationalization.
Read MoreGet a Job, Container: A Serverless Workflow with Iron.io
This post originally appeared on DZone Overview My previous post, Distinguished Microservices: It’s in the Behavior, made a comparison between two types of microservices – real-time requests (“app-centric”) and background processes (“job-centric”). As a follow-up, I wanted to take a deeper look at job-centric microservices as they set the stage for a new development paradigm…
Read MoreDistinguished Microservices: It’s in the Behavior
This post originally appeared on DZone Microservices is more than just an academic topic. It was born out of the challenges from running distributed applications at scale; enabled by recent advancements in cloud native technologies. What started as a hot topic between developers, operators, and architects alike, is now catching on within the enterprise because…
Read More1M msg/sec: IronMQv3 Hits Dos Commas
Overview IronMQ now has doors that go like this: Nearly two years ago, we set out to build a more friendly message queueing service that still keeps up with the big boys. In previous posts we have only shown the performance of the single server version, but now it’s time to take the gloves off…
Read MoreIt’s Bugging Me – Debugging in Unknown Languages
I’ll admit it, for one reason or another, I never really learned .NET. I think it just wasn’t very popular when I started my career and none of the places I’ve worked at have needed it. It somehow never crept into my list of languages to learn, so here I am. For the record (and…
Read MoreHow to Bake Your Own Pi
It’s 3/14, and that means it’s international Pi day! A day where we rejoice over the transcendental number that seems to be everywhere. So, why am I writing about pi on the Iron.io blog? It turns out pi is the best (read: the absolute best!) way to test out computers. It’s sufficiently random, requires large…
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