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CEO Chad Arimura Speaking at Data 360 Conference on Real-time Data
Data 360° Conference (Oct 22-23, 2014) Chad Arimura, CEO and Co-Founder of Iron.io, will be speaking at the Data 360° Conference in Santa Clara this week. The conference brings together leading figures in data processing and analysis to discuss trends in big data, cloud infrastructure, real-time data analysis, and distributed computing. Specific emphasis is on…
Read MoreIron.io Adds Longer Running Workers
Long-Running Workers are Now Available in IronWorker Iron.io is happy to announce long-running workers are now available within IronWorker. Up until now, workers running on the platform have been limited to 60 minutes in duration. Users on Production and Enterprise plans or using Dedicated Clusters can now have workers that run for hours at…
Read MoreIron.io hosting CoreOS meetup – Speakers include Brandon Philips from CoreOS and Sam Ward from Iron.io
Iron.io will be hosting a CoreOS meetup on this Monday, Sept. 8th. Brandon Philips, CTO of CoreOS, will be a speaker as will representatives from DigitalOcean and Citrix. Sam Ward, Senior Ops Engineer at Iron.io, will also be giving a talk. We’re at the early stages of using CoreOS but we’re liking what we’re seeing.…
Read MoreIron.io Releases Dedicated Worker Clusters
IronWorker Now Offers Dedicated Worker Clusters Dedicated workers clusters are now available within IronWorker. Sets of workers can be provisioned to run tasks on a dedicated basis for specific customers. The benefits include guaranteed concurrency and stricter latencies on task execution. This capability is designed for applications that have a steady stream of…
Read MoreIron.io Releases High Memory Workers
IronWorker Can Now Handle Larger Tasks We’re pleased to announce the availability of high-memory workers within IronWorker. This new capability will provide greater processing power to tackle even more ambitious tasks. The added boost to the IronWorker environment is perfect for tasks that consume large amounts of computing resources – tasks that might include big data…
Read MoreIron.io Adds Derek Collison as an Advisor – Former SVP/Chief Architect at Tibco, Architect of Cloud Foundry
We’re happy to announce that we recently added Derek Collison to the Iron.io advisory board. Derek is Founder/CEO of Apcera and an industry veteran and pioneer in large-scale distributed systems and enterprise computing. He has held executive positions at Google, VMware, and TIBCO Software and so is a great resource for technical and business insight. Derek CollisonIron.io…
Read MoreEvan Shaw speaking at Gopher SummerFest
Evan Shaw, one of Iron.io’s top systems engineer, is speaking at the Gopher SummerFest on June 23rd. The event is produced by GoSF, the largest Go language user group in the world, and sponsored by Google and Iron.io. GoSF is approaching 1200 members and comprised of CTOs, engineering heads, system architects, and developers from around…
Read MoreLaracon, Laracast, LaravelSF – Oh My!
Laracon 2014 is invading New York City on May 15-16th and we’re calling all Artisans! Laravel is a modern PHP framework built for large enterprise applications as well as simple JSON APIs. It’s possible to write powerful controllers or slim RESTful routes. Laravel is the perfect framework for jobs of all sizes.
Read MoreHow Docker Helped Us Achieve the (Near) Impossible
Docker Solved a Key Problem Ever since we started Iron.io, we’ve been trying to solve a problem: how to keep our IronWorker containers up to date with newer language runtimes and Linux packages. For the past two years, IronWorker has been using the same, unchanged run-time environment. That is until a couple of weeks…
Read MoreIron.io will be at GopherCon (Apr 24th-26th)
GopherCon 2014 Iron.io is a sponsor of GopherCon and we’ll have several of our team in attendance. The conference is in Denver, CO and runs from April 24-26. We jumped in early as a sponsor as we’re a big user of Go and we’re glad we did. The attendance will be off the charts as…
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