Cloud Foundry and Iron.io Deliver Serverless
This week, the Cloud Foundry Summit is happening in Frankfurt. If you are there, give us a shout. The Iron.io team is there and would love to meet with you. It looks to be a great conference. We at Iron.io have been fortunate to have been a member of the Cloud Foundry Foundation for several…
Read MoreIron.io and Mesosphere’s strategic partnership enables microservices and serverless computing for modern data centers
Lots of people have been asking about how they can use Mesosphere and Iron.io together. It makes sense, because Iron.io’s workload processing engine and hybrid microservices architecture are perfectly suited to take advantage of Mesosphere’s Datacenter Operating System (DC/OS), the first open and comprehensive platform for building, running and scaling modern enterprise applications.
Read MoreWhat is Serverless Computing and Why is it Important
Serverless computing has blown up in the past 6 months and along with all the excitement is a lot of questions. I’ll attempt to address some of the questions and talk about the pros and cons of serverless. We created Iron.io five years ago to solve the problems that serverless computing solves. In fact we built the…
Read MoreNavigating the Cloud Foundry Ecosystem of Ecosystems: An ISV Perspective
By Cloud Foundry Even Neil Degrasse Tyson would be impressed with how quickly and effectively the Cloud Foundry community has evolved into a fully organic ecosystem of ecosystems. This is because forward thinking organizations are putting a stake in the ground that Cloud Foundry will be the foundation for all future software development and deployment.…
Read MoreOpenShift Ecosystem: Iron.io Brings a Serverless Experience to OpenShift
There has been a lot of buzz around the Serverless trend lately; what it really means and what are its merits. At the end of the day it’s really just a new way to treat certain workloads – background jobs. How does this new pattern fit in the context of developing cloud native applications and…
Read MoreHybrid Iron.io – On-Premise Job Processing with the Help of the Cloud
Overview One of our main goals for the Iron.io platform is to run anywhere. This means we enable customers to use our services on any cloud, public or private. With Hybrid Iron.io, we’re making it drop-dead simple to get the benefits of the public cloud, with the security and control of a private cloud. Using Iron.io’s…
Read MoreMassive Content, Validation & Serverless: Cloud Expo 2016 Recap
The Cloud Expo was held June 7-9, 2016 in New York City, and Iron.io sent a team to present our vision for the future, collaborate with other attendees and answer questions. Below is a summary of three technical sessions representative of the Containers track at the conference: Scaling Massive Content Stores in the Cloud How to…
Read MoreBuzzwords: Microservices, Containers and Serverless at Goto Chicago
It was an honor to give a talk on the future of Serverless at goto Chicago, an enterprise developer conference running from May 24 to 25, 2016. As you can see from the full room, containers, microservices and serverless are popular topics with developers, and this interest extends across a wide swath of back-end languages,…
Read MoreIron.io named an IDC Innovator in PaaS
Being Innovative and enabling developers to innovate are driving forces for Iron.io. It’s what we do. Having said that, it’s very nice when we receive outside recognition. When the recognition is part of a well thought out analysis from IDC, it is fantastic. I’m happy to report that, Iron.io was named an IDC Innovator in…
Read MoreFour and a Half Years of Go in Production at goto Chicago 2016
Travis Reeder, CTO and co-founder of Iron.io, gave a talk at Goto Chicago 2016 discussing Iron.io’s early migration to Go, why we changed our infrastructure and the benefits it has brought to us. One of the questions that always comes up after telling people we migrated to Go is: “Why not Ruby?”
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