GopherFest 2015
On Tuesday evening at the GopherFest 2015 meetup, I had the privilege of speaking alongside Andrew Gerrand, Rob Pike (the creator of Go!) and Steve Francia. If you missed the talks, check out the full recording above. The slides for my talk are on SlideShare. Also, Hakka Labs will be releasing an edited recording of…
Read MoreHow Omaze Delivers Once in a Lifetime Experiences Using Iron.io and Rackspace DevOps
Blow Sh*t Up with Arnold Schwarzenegger … Be Drawn Into an Episode of the Simpsons … Celebrate the Patriots Victory with Rob Gronkowski. These aren’t even bucket list items, these are unattainable items. That is, until Omaze gets involved. Omaze is an organization that was founded to drive significantly more money and awareness for deserving causes…
Read MoreFull Docker Support for IronWorker
Overview A couple of months ago, we announced a new workflow for IronWorker based on Docker that enabled you to test your worker code locally on the exact same environment as it is when running on the IronWorker cloud. The initial feedback we received was pretty consistent: “This is great, but can you make it…
Read MoreDockerWorker Unplugged
Overview Today, the world revolves around developers. Digital businesses are becoming a significant part of the landscape. A traditional business thrives on its responsiveness to customers and how it handles business data. People used to talk about the Era of Information Technology, however, now we’re in the Era of the Developer. Fast-moving businesses recognize the…
Read MoreHubble Gets Lean With Microservices and Iron.io
As microservices continues to spread through the industry as a dominant pattern for building modern cloud applications, marquee examples from large-scale companies such as Netflix and Twitter may appear daunting to companies still on a growth path. When powering through agile cycles to release new features at a rapid pace, the last thing on your…
Read MoreCreating Microservices in Laravel (repost)
We came across a great tech post the other day by developer and writer Alfred Nutile. His post describes a simple process for doing background processing and creating microservices within Laravel, a fantastic PHP framework for modern web developers. Table of Contents Background Processing and Microservices Distributing Workloads in Laravel Achieve Seamless Background Task Processing…
Read MoreHow HotelTonight Streamlined their ETL Process Using IronWorker
HotelTonight has reinvented the task of finding and booking discounted hotel rooms at travel destinations. Designed for last-minute travel planners and optimized for the mobile era, HotelTonight connects adventure-seeking, impulse travelers with just-in-time available hotel rooms wherever they land. This model has the market-enhancing effect of reducing excess inventory of unused hotel rooms, while delivering…
Read MoreCEO Chad Arimura Speaking at IoT Stream Conference in April
Chad Arimura, CEO and Co-Founder of Iron.io, will be speaking at IoT StreamConf conference in April. We’re also sponsors of the event. This conference will bring together architects and builders to discuss best practices and the emerging IoT technology stack. If you want to collaborate with hands-on people solving real IoT challenges, IOT Stream Conf…
Read MoreRoam Directories Goes Serverless With Iron.io and Other Cloud Services
Users expect immediate access to information, and this expectation is no different in the commercial real estate industry. Fast-moving companies need innovative web tools that enable property managers to upload, update and exchange building information with prospective tenants. Roam Directories, founded in 2013, is a relatively new company in an industry filled with established firms.…
Read MoreSuper Easy Serverless Slack Bots
Slack has a great API for building integrations and one of those types of integrations is called a “bot”. Bots are useful tools that can respond to messages the chat users type into a chatroom. For instance you could type in “what is the weather” and the bot would respond with today’s weather. Bots are…
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