#SFRails: Scaling ElasticSearch + Advanced Ruby Tricks

Last night a near 100 folks showed up at Hotel Tonight’s swank downtown offices to get nerdy about Rails. There’s still a lot of excitement, innovation, and love happening in the Ruby world. After a bit of pre-show socialization with our fellow devs, the crowd settled in to hear the talks of the evening.

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#GoSF: Identity, Safe Secrets, and IoT Friendly Languages

The Go gopher was designed by Renee French. CC BY 3.0 US Last night’s meetup, which was hosted by Betable, included two presentations and two lightning talks rounding out a solid evening for the GoSF group. Topics included identity on the web, safe storage of tokens (beyond ENV vars), and even the debut of a…

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Why Iron.io Joined the Cloud Foundry Foundation

As of today, Iron.io formally joined the Cloud Foundry Foundation, the community behind the rapidly growing open source Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). With this exciting news, I wanted to take a quick moment to reflect on what brought us here, and where we see ourselves moving towards.

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Favorites from GitHub Universe

Remember when enterprise shied away from Open Source software? I sure do. The times they aren’t a changin’.  Led to by the desire to cut costs and create better products, companies are embracing open source. Business today runs on a mix of open and closed solutions. Nowhere was this more apparent than at the inaugural…

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Notes from Gotham Go

Last week, I had the pleasure of joining gophers at Gotham Go. It was a incredibly dense single day of information. What follows is a quick impression of each talk, along with links to more detailed material. Special thanks to Peggy Li for tossing her notes on github! UPDATE: VODs are appearing online now. You…

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Learning from Facebook’s Outage

Thanks to Kārlis Dambrāns for providing the base image. CC BY 2.0 Facebook’s suffered three outages this month; two of which occurred within the span of a week. Ouch. If you know any folks on the FB ops team, now’s a good time to buy ‘em a beer. Whenever a blip like this appears, it’s…

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2015 Container Summit notes and learnings, part 2

Yesterday we shipped part 1 of our Container Summit notes. Today is a continuation! We’ll share a few of the other talks we enjoyed. In this post you’ll find stories from Wall Street veterans, open source giants, and nimble challengers.

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2015 Container Summit notes and learnings, Part 1

A day ago I joined 700+ folks at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco to attend the 2015 Container Summit. Container’s are young, but one thing this event made clear is the forebears have been around quite a while. A favorite part of the summit was hearing war stories. That is, how containers are called on…

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$8 Million Series A Will Enable Iron.io To Take Its Mission to a New Level

When Travis and I founded Iron.io, we set out to create a beautiful developer experience for scaling your apps job processing system. If you’ve written apps that had to scale, managing the sometimes millions of events and tasks using queues and workers is extremely painful, error prone, and let’s face it, non-strategic. This type of…

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At @SCALE 2015

Yesterday I swung down to San Jose to listen to Facebook, Box, Google, Twitter, Microsoft and other leaders speak at the overflowing San Jose Convention Center. The @SCALE 2015 conference was a great opportunity to hear Tech titans speak. It was a scene of hungry minds and egalitarian ideals. If there’s a core takeaway from @SCALE,…

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