Top 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…
Read MoreAnnouncing Hot Functions for IronFunctions
IronFunctions is a serverless application platform. Unlike AWS Lambda it’s open-source, can run on any cloud — public, on-premise, or hybrid, and language agnostic, while maintaining AWS Lambda compatibility. The initial release of IronFunctions received some amazing feedback and the past few weeks were spent addressing outstanding issues. In this post I will be highlighting the biggest feature…
Read MoreAnnouncing Project Picasso – OpenStack Functions as a Service
We are pleased to announce a new project to enable Functions as a Service (FaaS) on OpenStack — Picasso. The mission is to provide an API for running FaaS on OpenStack, abstracting away the infrastructure layer while enabling simplicity, efficiency, and scalability for both developers and operators. Picasso can be used to trigger functions from OpenStack services,…
Read MoreAnnouncing IronFunctions Open Source
Today we’re excited to announce IronFunctions, our first major open source project. IronFunctions is a serverless microservices platform that you can run anywhere; on public, private, and hybrid clouds, even on your own laptop. The world is moving towards hybrid/multi-cloud, so should your serverless platform. It runs on top of the popular orchestration frameworks (Kubernetes, Mesosphere), inside…
Read MoreThe Overhead of Docker Run
First published on Medium on 10/11/2016. We use Docker a lot. Like a lot, lot. While we love it for a lot of things, it still has a lot of room for improvement. One of those areas that could use improvement is the startup/teardown time of running a container. Table of Contents The Test 4…
Read MoreDelivering on the Promise of Multicloud Lambda-like Functionality
In February, we launch a beta called Project Kratos. It promised to bring Lambda-like functionality to any cloud – public, private, hybrid or on-premises. As we quickly approach Q4, February seems like a long time ago, but so much has happened since then. Over the past seven months, serverless computing has gained momentum as more…
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