Serverless Workers & Containers
What is a Worker???
Today, Iron.io sales engineer/teacher Yaron Sadka continues our FAQ video series by answering IronWorker related questions. In the following two videos he guides us through: What is a Worker? and What you use a Worker for? Stay posted for more of these FAQ video to come. Click here if you have any questions or want to…
Read MoreAn Easier Way to Create Tiny Golang Docker Images
Overview Atlassian just posted a blog post about creating Static Go binaries with Docker on OSX which shows how to make a tiny little Docker image (~6MB total) with your Go program inside. When I read it, I thought “this is cool… but way too complicated”. I’ve been using Docker a lot lately and knew…
Read MoreProject Thor Will Deliver First True Hybrid IronWorker Solution
Today, Iron.io announced Project Thor, which is developing the world’s first hybrid job processing system. This is unlike anything we’ve done to date. Unlike previous IronWorker technology, Project Thor is architected to deliver the power of Iron.io to any server in the world in minutes. With Project Thor, the Iron.io IronWorker Docker container is deployed…
Read MoreNo lock in, thanks to Docker
Flexibility and the freedom to choose are among the core tenets at Iron.io. For those who have been following Iron.io posts for some time, we’re sure you’ve read a number of the Docker-related developments we released over the past year, including the previous blog post that IronWorker supports custom Docker images. This is awesome not…
Read MoreTreasure Data and IronWorker (repost)
Overview Our friends at Treasure Data wrote a blog post about data collection in Ruby and how to run multiple data collection tasks in parallel (or scheduled) using IronWorker. The example from Treasure Data demonstrates what it takes to build a simple logging application in Ruby with IronWorker to manage and log the output to…
Read MoreFull Docker Support for IronWorker
Overview A couple of months ago, we announced a new workflow for IronWorker based on Docker that enabled you to test your worker code locally on the exact same environment as it is when running on the IronWorker cloud. The initial feedback we received was pretty consistent: “This is great, but can you make it…
Read MoreDockerWorker Unplugged
Overview Today, the world revolves around developers. Digital businesses are becoming a significant part of the landscape. A traditional business thrives on its responsiveness to customers and how it handles business data. People used to talk about the Era of Information Technology, however, now we’re in the Era of the Developer. Fast-moving businesses recognize the…
Read MoreThe New Docker Based IronWorker Development Workflow
Overview Creating a simple IronWorker worker can be quick and easy. But if you’ve used IronWorker to build a complex worker, you may have found the experience a bit cumbersome. The reason is that sometimes you just don’t know if your worker will run the same way it does when you run it locally, due…
Read MoreThe Ephemeral Life of Dockerized Microservices
Overview When using the word ‘ephemeral’, it’s hard not to think of Snapchat these days, however, the concept applies to the on-demand computing pattern we promote here at Iron.io with our task processing service IronWorker. At a glance, each Docker container in which a task runs is only alive for the duration of the process…
Read MoreAWS Lambda vs IronWorker
Overview If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then consider us flattered by Amazon. The new AWS Lambda service is nearly the same thing as Iron.io’s IronWorker service, solving the same problem with a slightly different API. I took it on as a project recently to compare and contrast how each service works, how…
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