Iron.io One Year Anniversary Drinkup… with a Gyrocycle!
One Year Celebration A year ago we launched under the Iron.io brand and introduced IronMQ. Which means that it’s a perfect occasion to celebrate the beginning of a second year with Iron.io Drinkup #4. Come join us Friday, Dec 7th at Mars Bar. We’re starting it in the late afternoon so it won’t conflict with holiday events. Developers and friends from other cloud…
Read MoreIron.io certified US-EU | US-Swiss Safe Harbor
Wanted to note that Iron.io is now certified to US-EU and US-Swiss Safe Harbor Frameworks effective as of today, December 3, 2012. A small matter for developers in the US but an important one for users in the EU and Switzerland. Here’s the language from our Privacy Policy: 7. International Safe Harbor Certifications Iron.io complies…
Read MoreIron.io On Air with Michael Schonfeld from Dwolla
Join us for our first episode of Iron.io On Air ! (Tues, Nov 27th at 5pm PT) Michael Schonfeld, Dwolla This first show will feature Michael Schonfeld, a Developer Evangelist from Dwolla. Michael built the MassPay solution for DwollaLabs using IronWorker. He and members of Iron.io’s DevExp team be live on air to answer your questions…
Read MoreStackMob + Iron.io : Iron.io Joins the StackMob Marketplace
Iron.io is in the StackMob Marketplace! The marketplace was released today and is a big step forward in world of mobile development. It promises to make it even easier for developers to build and scale mobile and tablet apps.
Read MoreIron.io @ Compute Midwest
Iron.io will be in the Rust Belt this weekend for Compute Midwest 2012. It’s a 3-day event in Kansas City, starting with a conference on Friday, Nov 9th and continuing with a hackathon on Sat through Sun. It’s hosted by the Kansas City IT Professionals (KCITP), a grassroots group of 9500+ led by Michael Gelphman. We’re excited about meeting the…
Read MoreSharable, Open Source Workers for Scalable Processing
Overview You can now add workers to your account from a GitHub URL which enables an awesome way for people to share their workers with others. In this post, I’ll show you three real-world examples workers that you can start using right away without writing a line of worker code. The power of any worker…
Read MoreIron.io @ API Strategy 2012
Iron.io will be in NYC at the beginning of November for the API Strategy and Practice Conference. It’s being put on by our friends at 3Scale and Kin Lane (API Evangelist). The provisioning of services – including and especially compute power in our view of things – via APIs is a huge part of the…
Read MoreThe Future is Serverless
We published a piece on ReadWriteWeb this morning on Why the Future of Software and Apps is Serverless. Below are a few excerpts.
Read MoreDreamforce Presentation Follow Up
I gave a talk at Dreamforce a few weeks ago, titled “Create a Massively Scalable System with Force.com and Heroku” in which I presented a simple web application and showed how to make it painlessly scale. There was a great turn out so it seems as though the topic is quite popular. Here’s…
Read MoreIron.io @ Aloha Ruby 2012
Iron.io is a sponsor of the Aloha Ruby Conference which takes place next week, Oct 8-9 2012, in Honolulu, Hawaii. We’re big users of Ruby on Rails – making heavy use of the language for our website and our dashboard – and are big supporters of the Rails community, serving as organizers of the SFRails meetup group. (We also make extensive…
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