Get 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…
Read MoreGoSF: The 1.6 Release Party at Docker HQ
Lightning, thunder, and even hail swept through SF yesterday. But, that didn’t deter hundreds from hustling to Docker’s HQ for the Go 1.6 release party! GoSF received over 470 signups, a nice sum for a relatively young language. Yesterday’s launch party boasted trivia, stuffed gopher giveaways, and a limited run T-shirt from Iron.io’s Bruce Lu. Oh, and…
Read MoreSF Rails: Reduce Complexity and Simplify Code
Last night we swung by the snazzy DevBootCamp offices. Our goal? To learn from the fine folks joining us at the SF Rails meetup. The topics included DCI, a comparison of static site generators to traditional CMS, and how workers are better fit than functional programming for reactive infrastructure. Heady stuff! Keep reading for a preview…
Read MoreSapphire Venture Joins Iron.io Investor Syndicate, Adds Fuel to our Enterprise Rocketship
Today, we’re getting an additional spark that will accelerate our push into the enterprise market. We are excited to announce an extension of our Series A round which now equals $11.5 million; and welcome Sapphire Ventures, to our list of investors – Baseline Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, Divergent Ventures, Ignition Partners and Cloud Capital Partners.…
Read MoreThe Next Frontier: Learning Microservices in the Classroom
As a Customer Success engineer here at Iron.io, I’ve been fortunate enough to see people using Iron.io in ways I never thought about. It’s actually one of my favorite parts of my job. Recently, I was chatting with a customer who mentioned his students were using Iron.io in their final project. This peeked my interest,…
Read MoreIs Open Source Eating The World?
Thanks to Dominic Alves for the base image! CC BY 2.0 The phrase, “Software is eating the world,” first showed up in 2011. In 2015, open source took its rightful seat at the table. “If the theory pervades deeper – and software does eat the world – then surely open source software will swallow it,…
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