Announcing Project Picasso – OpenStack Functions as a Service

By Iron | December 20, 2016 |

We are pleased to announce a new project to enable Functions as a Service (FaaS) on OpenStack — Picasso. The mission is to provide an API for running FaaS on OpenStack, abstracting away the infrastructure layer while enabling simplicity, efficiency, and scalability for both developers and operators. Picasso can be used to trigger functions from OpenStack services,…

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Announcing IronFunctions Open Source

By Iron | November 15, 2016 |

  Today we’re excited to announce IronFunctions, our first major open source project. IronFunctions is a serverless microservices platform that you can run anywhere; on public, private, and hybrid clouds, even on your own laptop. The world is moving towards hybrid/multi-cloud, so should your serverless platform. It runs on top of the popular orchestration frameworks (Kubernetes, Mesosphere), inside…

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What is Serverless Computing and Why is it Important

By Iron | July 7, 2016 |

Serverless computing has blown up in the past 6 months and along with all the excitement is a lot of questions. I’ll attempt to address some of the questions and talk about the pros and cons of serverless. We created Iron.io five years ago to solve the problems that serverless computing solves. In fact we built the…

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