$8 Million Series A Will Enable Iron.io To Take Its Mission to a New Level
When Travis and I founded Iron.io, we set out to create a beautiful developer experience for scaling your apps job processing system. If you’ve written apps that had to scale, managing the sometimes millions of events and tasks using queues and workers is extremely painful, error prone, and let’s face it, non-strategic. This type of…
Read MoreAt @SCALE 2015
Yesterday I swung down to San Jose to listen to Facebook, Box, Google, Twitter, Microsoft and other leaders speak at the overflowing San Jose Convention Center. The @SCALE 2015 conference was a great opportunity to hear Tech titans speak. It was a scene of hungry minds and egalitarian ideals. If there’s a core takeaway from @SCALE,…
Read MoreE is for Event: A Fresh Take on ETL
As a follow up to my previous post, The Workloads of the Internet of Things, I wanted to walk through a real world example that fully captures the principles of event-driven computing put forth. Let’s set the stage first… imagine we operate a windmill farm and want to continually track optimal weather conditions to maximize…
Read MoreWhen and Why for Microservices
Thanks to Thomas Leuthard for the base image CC BY 2.0 Microservices are difficult. Don’t believe me? Let’s read a quote from Chris Richardson, the founder of CloudFoundry: When developing the first version of an application, you often do not have the problems that [the microservices] approach solves. Moreover, using an elaborate, distributed architecture will…
Read MoreIron.io Now Available in Microsoft Azure Marketplace
Iron.io continues to grow its ecosystem of value-added partners. To this point, today you can now find Iron.io solutions in the Application Services within the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. Azure users can now directly leverage Iron.io within their applications to respond to application events, decouple components as independent services, offload individual workloads, and schedule regular occurring…
Read MoreLegible + efficient SQL with CTEs
Thanks to Jonny Hughes for the base image! Howdy! I’m Paul, and I’m one of the newer faces here at iron.io. My plan is to blog, champion local meetups, and empower developers. That last one is a whiz-bang business term for “help folks learn how to do dead-simple job processing.” Today, I’ll blog about an…
Read MoreUsing IronWorker to Power Custom Service Integrations
The rise of the API economy in recent years has also given the integration economy a much needed breath of new life. What was once a painful process of dealing with proprietary formats and clunky middleware, has now become a streamlined process via openly consumable cloud-native REST APIs. As such, a new breed of services…
Read MoreThe Easiest Way to Develop with Go — Introducing a Docker Based Go Tool
Overview Via Medium While trying to make a drop-dead simple example for running Go programs on IronWorker, I realized there’s just no simple way for us to point someone at an example repo with Go code and have them up and running in a few minutes. This can be done in other languages fairly easily…
Read MoreWhat is a Worker???
Today, Iron.io sales engineer/teacher Yaron Sadka continues our FAQ video series by answering IronWorker related questions. In the following two videos he guides us through: What is a Worker? and What you use a Worker for? Stay posted for more of these FAQ video to come. Click here if you have any questions or want to…
Read MoreThe Workloads of the Internet of Things
I must say my favorite part about researching the Internet of Things has to be the mind blowing stats. Just a couple from the arsenal… we already have more connected devices on the planet than humans, and every two days we create more data than all of human history up to 2003. The predictions are…
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