Serverless Workers & Containers
Simple way to offload container-based background jobs
Table of Contents What are container-based background jobs? Why are container-based background jobs important to developers? Do container-based background jobs help companies scale? What is a Saas company that provides a simple easy-to-use application to offload container-based background jobs? Achieve Cloud Elasticity with Iron Speak to us to find how you can achieve cloud elasticity…
Read MoreServerless Abstraction with Containers Explained
Introduction With the rapid growth of cloud computing, the “as a service” business model is slowly growing to dominate the field of enterprise IT. XaaS (also known as “anything as a service”) is projected to expand by a staggering annual growth rate of 38 percent between 2016 and 2020. The reasons for the rise of XaaS solutions…
Read MoreAmazon EKS Alternatives and Review
Overview Kubernetes is one of the most popular choices for automating and managing Linux container operations. Originally developed by Google, the open-source Kubernetes project is now in use by some of the world’s largest enterprises. These include IBM, Nokia, Comcast, and Samsung. With the rise of Kubernetes itself, we’ve also seen growth in accompanying services…
Read MoreDocker vs Kubernetes – How Do They Stack Up?
Overview Docker and Kubernetes are two hot technologies in the world of software. Most software architectures are using them or considering them. The question is often asked – Docker vs Kubernetes – which is better? Which one should we be using? As it turns out, this question misrepresents the two. These two technologies don’t actually…
Read More3 Key Benefits to Container-Based Background Job Processing
Whether deploying applications or providing microservices, being able to get tasks done in the background without user intervention is key to operating efficiently for IT and development teams. One effective way to facilitate background job processing is with the help of containers. Container-based background job processing comes with a whole host of benefits. Here are…
Read MoreDocker, Inc isn’t Dead
Overview Chris Short recently wrote up a piece entitled Docker, Inc is Dead, with a prediction that the company would no longer exist sometime in 2018. It’s well written and he does a good job of running through some of Docker’s history in recent years. Although I agree with some of his sentiments, I don’t…
Read MoreMigrating from Sidekiq to Iron
Overview I’ve used Sidekiq for years. It’s an absolutely fantastic project and Mike Perham is a shining example of what it means to be a maintainer. I’ve sent him numerous questions in the past about our installations (I’ve been both a Pro and an Enterprise user) and he’s been extremely quick to respond and we…
Read MoreGPU support in IronWorker
Overview In the past few months, we’ve spoken to quite a few customers that have added Machine Learning (ML) tasks into IronWorker. The problem is, these tasks can take a significant amount of time on a CPU vs a GPU. GPU’s were built to handle the parallelization of complex matrix/vector operations that gaming required, and…
Read MoreThe Overhead of Docker Run
First published on Medium on 10/11/2016. We use Docker a lot. Like a lot, lot. While we love it for a lot of things, it still has a lot of room for improvement. One of those areas that could use improvement is the startup/teardown time of running a container. Table of Contents The Test 4…
Read MoreHybrid Iron.io – On-Premise Job Processing with the Help of the Cloud
Overview One of our main goals for the Iron.io platform is to run anywhere. This means we enable customers to use our services on any cloud, public or private. With Hybrid Iron.io, we’re making it drop-dead simple to get the benefits of the public cloud, with the security and control of a private cloud. Using Iron.io’s…
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