Gartner Names Iron.io on 2016 “Cool Vendor” List
Here’s some cool news. Iron.io was recently named a “Cool Vendor” in the Cool Vendors in Platform as a Service, 2016[1] report by Gartner. The report puts Iron.io on an extremely short list with just three other vendors in the space: Clusterpoint in London, England; Flybits in Toronto, Canada; and Neoway out of Florianopolis, Brazil.…
Read MoreGopherFest Summer 2016 Recap
Hundreds of Go enthusiasts gathered at the prestigious Bently Reserve in downtown San Francisco for a day full of talks about data science, scaling, testing, speed, code reuse and refactoring, all in the context of Golang. Below, a write-up of a few selected talks: [wds id=”2″] Built for Snappiness by Blake Mizerany @bmizerany When I…
Read MoreMicroservices Architecture and Container Technology Explained
Guest blog by Bob Johnson Vice President & Principal Analyst at IDG Connect Fighting for space in the world of web based services and applications needs a quick eye and a strong software development arm, and companies everywhere are looking at new ways to boost agility and shorten their time to market. One of these is microservices,…
Read MoreBatch Processing: A Tutorial on Workers, Queueing and Gelato
Batch processing is one of the earliest ways of data processing, utilized by Herman Hollerith’s Tabulating Machine in 1890. Batch processing was developed to take advantage of scarce computing resources: it avoids idling these expensive resources by queueing instructions to process data without manual user intervention, and can shift workload to times when resources are…
Read MoreGoLangSF April 2016: Gohan, Essentier and rqlite
Thank you to New Relic for hosting the April 2016 Golang SF meetup, sponsored by Iron.io! Gohan with Nachi Ueno Gohan provides a REST-based API server, database backend, CLI, and WebUI generated from a JSON schema. Gohan can interpret definitions and act as a REST API server. As opposed to Open API, which defines the…
Read MoreIntel: 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.
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