Iron.io Launches on Pivotal Cloud Foundry Platform

Iron.io is proud to announce that IronMQ and IronWorker are now available as add-on services on Pivotal’s web-based Platform-as-a-Service (PAAS) which is available at https://run.pivotal.io and runs the open source Cloud Foundry platform. Run.pivotal provides app developers with a powerful option to rapidly deploy and scale new applications. The recent launch of Pivotal CF – a…

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Iron.io Drinkup – Booze Queues’ Edition

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In keeping with all the love going around today, wanted to let you know about an Iron.io Drinkup we’re hosting with our friends at Keen IO next week (Wed, Feb 19th). It’ll be at our offices at Heavybit. In keeping with the theme, here are details in the form of some JSON. Drink up.  …

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Go Sessions: Teaching Go to Experienced Devs (via GoSF)

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As a result of the growing interest in Go, Travis Reeder and other GoSF organizers have decided to create a program within GoSF to teach Go programming concepts and fundamentals. We’re calling them Go Sessions and they consist of evening guided pair-programming sessions. Iron.io is one of main organizers of the GoSF meetup and we’ve…

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Iron.io Drinkup in NYC

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In a couple short weeks, Iron.io will be hosting an Iron.io Drinkup and would love to see developers in NYC there! Who: One of our dev evangelists and YOU! What: Beer and…more beer! Why: To asynchronously chat and hangout …and drink beers Where: TBD – but definitely in the city When: Thurs, Jan 30th –…

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Need a Mobile Backend? Try OpenShift. (SendGrid article)

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SendGrid on Mobile Backend Services SendGrid put out a nice post on their blog the other day on what to look for with mobile backends. Kunal Batra is a developer evangelist at-large for SendGrid and did some work with Redhat’s OpenShift platform recently. In the post, Kunal lays out a simple case for why this platform…

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Holiday Hack Winners!

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After a great holiday season and a minor delay in judging, the results are in! 1st:  Iron TicTacToe 2nd: HackerNews Sentiment Analysis 3rd: Iron Unfollow Winner: Iron TicTacToe Built by: David Jones Simple hackathon project to implement “parallel game tree search” for TicTacToe using IronWorker, IronCache, IronMQ, and SendGrid. The parallel algorithm has 2 main parts.…

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#IronHack Showcase

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During these holidays We here at Iron.io challenged programmers sipping on eggnog, snowed in, stuck in airports, hanging out in sweatpants, and mellowing out to the third marathon of Home Alone to hack on a project for the holidays. https://www.hackerleague.org/hackathons/the-iron-holiday-hack These are some of the projects we wanted to share with the public! HN Sentiment…

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Hackathons: Beyond the Prizes

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Here in San Francisco hackathons are common place — you can find one most every weekend.The basic premise of a hackathon is to show up, build an app in 24-48 hours, and go home. All food and drink is taken care of and sleep is frowned upon, though a couple hours of nap time is suggested. The…

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GoSF Talk: Travis Reeder on Go after 2 Years in Production

Travis Reeder, Iron.io’s CTO, gave a talk recently at a GoSF meetup on Iron.io’s use of Go. We’re big proponents of Go, using it for all our backend components and have written or talked about our experiences in a number of places (here, here, and here). Travis’ talk here is a compilation of a number…

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