Iron’s East/West Coast Drink-up
A bunch of Iron employees will be out and about in April, looking to meet up with customers to chat about our up and coming platform changes. Beer (or wine, or cocktails, or <insert drink here>) will be on us! We’re sticking to the east and west coasts for now, and our current plans are: April…
Read MoreA Serverless Message Queue Without the Glue
Overview: More and more technologies get involved as systems grow, and it’s sometimes hard to keep track of what’s doing what. Caching layers, message queues, serverless functions, tracing frameworks… the list goes on. Once you start sprinkling in public cloud services, you may find yourself developing your way into vendor lock-in. All of the sudden,…
Read MoreDocker, Inc isn’t Dead
Overview Chris Short recently wrote up a piece entitled Docker, Inc is Dead, with a prediction that the company would no longer exist sometime in 2018. It’s well written and he does a good job of running through some of Docker’s history in recent years. Although I agree with some of his sentiments, I don’t…
Read MoreMigrating from Sidekiq to Iron
Overview I’ve used Sidekiq for years. It’s an absolutely fantastic project and Mike Perham is a shining example of what it means to be a maintainer. I’ve sent him numerous questions in the past about our installations (I’ve been both a Pro and an Enterprise user) and he’s been extremely quick to respond and we…
Read MoreWebhooks the Right Way™
If you’re a developer, dealing with webhooks is a part of your life. Nowadays almost every subscription service allows for these user-defined callbacks. For example, when a Lead is added to Salesforce, you may want to have a task that runs in the background to generate more information about the company they work for. Maybe you…
Read MoreAWS 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…
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