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Iron.io Speaking at Ubuntu Cloud Summit
Iron.io will be speaking at the Ubuntu Cloud Summit on Tuesday, May 8th. Chad will be talking about Iron.io and how cloud services fit in with PaaS and in the cloud stack. Lots of great companies are also presenting including Canonical, HP, VMware, Rackspace, Scalr, and 10gen. The analytics firm RedMonk is hosting and so…
Read MoreIron.io + Claremont Colleges Hackathon
Iron.io is a big believer in helping close-knit teams do big things. Which is why we’re enthusiastic supporters and sponsors of a growing set of hackathons around the country. This weekend there’s a hackathon at the Claremont Colleges in Pomona, CA. The focus here is to “build something a 5C student would love to…
Read More@BetaVanguard: A Few Questions and Answers
SF Beta had some questions for us the other day. Here are a few of the answers. Full set can be seen here.
Read MoreIron.io Speaking at Data 2.0 Summit
One of the big uses of Iron.io services is in working with cloud data at big scale. Some customers are using IronWorker to crawl the web and process the results. Others are taking data and transforming it using a host of workers. Still others are using IronMQ to connect cloud apps to legacy apps. And…
Read MoreIron.io Demoing at SF Beta (March 27th)
Iron.io will be one of the demo tables at SF Beta on March 27th. SF Beta is a great event. It’s a mixer more than anything else but we’re hoping it’s heavy on the hackers and developers, designers and students. A bunch of other great companies will be a part. Demo Theme: Platforms and APIs…
Read MoreRackspace Guest Post: Iron.io Gives App Developers Agility, Scalability Boost
Here’s a piece that Travis Reeder posted for the Rackspace Blog the other day.
Read MoreIron.io is now on Rackspace
We’re happy to announce that IronMQ, one of Iron.io’s premier application services, is now included as a service within the Rackspace Cloud Tools program. We’re especially proud of this milestone because in addition to being multi-platform and multi-language, we are now also multi-cloud. IronMQ is a hosted message queue for…
Read MoreIron.io is sponsoring AngelHack 2.0.
Iron.io is sponsoring AngelHack 2.0. AngelHack brings together startup communities from around the country for hackathon competitions. Participants spend a weekend building startups ideas which are then judged by top angels, venture investors, and tech bloggers. AngelHack 2.0 will be on March 3-4th and will be held in San Francisco and Boston. 700+ participants are expected and…
Read MoreIron.io at Heroku Waza
Hey All, Both Travis and I (co-founders) will be at Heroku Waza tomorrow in San Francisco. It’s Heroku’s first developer event and it’s taking place at Yoshi’s SF, a Japanese Restaurant and Jazz Club. Knowing Heroku, it’ll be a great event. Our partnership with them is growing increasingly strong as we launch IronMQ into general…
Read MoreNew Release: Job Fairness, More Generic Backend and New Gem
Hi all, we pushed out a major new release a couple of nights ago and it is a big step forward in a couple of areas: fairness amongst all users in the system and a more generic backend to allow any Ruby code to run, more on that below.
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