The New Docker Based IronWorker Development Workflow
Overview Creating a simple IronWorker worker can be quick and easy. But if you’ve used IronWorker to build a complex worker, you may have found the experience a bit cumbersome. The reason is that sometimes you just don’t know if your worker will run the same way it does when you run it locally, due…
Read MoreWhy Large Scale Drupal Users Need Iron.io To Increase Application Responsiveness
We’re always pleased to receive stories about how Iron.io products have helped make peoples’ lives easier. This is the story about how Schwartz Media from the land down under, addressed the challenging task of managing and deploying multiple Drupal sites on the Pantheon platform. Owen Kelly is the Director of Technology at Schwartz Media, publisher…
Read MoreIron.io Releases Enhanced Security Package – IP Whitelisting, VPN, and VPC Support
Iron.io is pleased to announce the release of an enhanced security package for our IronMQ and IronWorker platforms. This package includes access to virtual IP addresses and support for virtual private networks (VPN) and virtual private clouds (VPC). Elastic IP Addresses (EIP) – This feature provides access to the list of virtual IP addresses…
Read MoreAn Outside View on Microservices : Agility and Scale
Alex Bakker, a research director at Saugatuck Technology, just put out a pretty good post on microservices entitled Agility, Microservices, and Digital Business. It provides a good overview on the topic of Microservices and is especially strong on what microservices mean to larger organizations and the enterprise. It’s the first of several posts which are part…
Read MoreSmart Endpoints. Smart Pipes. Smarter Microservices.
Overview: This is the second post in a series on microservices. Read our previous post on the service computing environment: The Ephemeral Life of Dockerized Microservices. The use of microservices is a growing trend in application development because it provides an answer to the overhead incurred by monolithic applications. The practice of breaking apart…
Read MoreIron.io Speaking on Docker in Production [Feb 11th]
Travis Reeder, CTO and co-founder at Iron.io, and Reed Allman, a systems engineer, will be talking about Docker in Production at an upcoming meetup. Luke Marsden from ClusterHQ, John Fiedler from RelateIQ, and Jérôme Petazzoni from Docker will also talk abou their experiences on the subject. The ClusterHQ meetup will be held on Wed, Feb 11th…
Read MoreThe Ephemeral Life of Dockerized Microservices
Overview When using the word ‘ephemeral’, it’s hard not to think of Snapchat these days, however, the concept applies to the on-demand computing pattern we promote here at Iron.io with our task processing service IronWorker. At a glance, each Docker container in which a task runs is only alive for the duration of the process…
Read MoreAWS Lambda vs IronWorker
Overview If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then consider us flattered by Amazon. The new AWS Lambda service is nearly the same thing as Iron.io’s IronWorker service, solving the same problem with a slightly different API. I took it on as a project recently to compare and contrast how each service works, how…
Read MoreMicroservices for Good: How Angel Flight West Uses Technology to Help People in Need
With the holiday season upon us, we thought it would be a fitting time to to highlight a wonderful non-profit organization and how they use technology for a great purpose. Angel Flight West : A Mission for Good
Read MoreIron.io Launches IronWorker within the Azure Marketplace
Iron.io is pleased to announce it is offering its IronWorker platform as an Application Service within the Azure Marketplace, providing a key infrastructure component that gives developers immediate access to highly scalable event-driven computing services. Every application in the cloud needs to process workloads on a continuous basis, at scale, on a schedule, or in…
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