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First Class Support for Docker: Better Service, More Legroom

By Iron | November 5, 2015

Thanks to Richard Moross for the base image CC BY 2.0 Overview “Docker, please visit the front desk to receive…

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#EastBayGo: Pareto Efficiencies and AOP with GoWeave

By Iron | October 30, 2015

Special thanks to James Daisa for the base image! CC BY 2.0 The other night we headed over to the TurnItIn…

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#SFRails: Scaling ElasticSearch + Advanced Ruby Tricks

By Iron | October 23, 2015

Last night a near 100 folks showed up at Hotel Tonight’s swank downtown offices to get nerdy about Rails. There’s…

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

By Iron | October 23, 2015

The Go gopher was designed by Renee French. CC BY 3.0 US Last night’s meetup, which was hosted by Betable,…

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Why Iron.io Joined the Cloud Foundry Foundation

By Iron | October 21, 2015

As of today, Iron.io formally joined the Cloud Foundry Foundation, the community behind the rapidly growing open source Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS).…

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Message Queues & Workers: the Heart of Modern Infrastructure

By Iron | October 20, 2015

Thanks to Sonny Abesamis for the base image! CC BY 2.0 Increasingly, message queues and workers are intertwined with the…

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Helpful hints: Pre-commit

By Iron | October 17, 2015

I had a lot of fun sharing pre-commit with everyone earlier this week. In case you missed it, here’s a link.…

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Polyglot microservices need pre-commit + git

By Iron | October 14, 2015

  Microservices are great! Or, at least that’s what the internet keeps telling me. There are a lot of upsides,…

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Favorites from GitHub Universe

By Iron | October 9, 2015

Remember when enterprise shied away from Open Source software? I sure do. The times they aren’t a changin’.  Led to…

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FAQ Series: What is an overlord-minion architecture?

By Iron | October 7, 2015

What do you do when even batch processing can’t save you? Yaron suggests giving the overlord-minion pattern a try. The…

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Notes from Gotham Go

By Iron | October 6, 2015

Last week, I had the pleasure of joining gophers at Gotham Go. It was a incredibly dense single day of…

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Learning from Facebook’s Outage

By Iron | October 2, 2015

Thanks to Kārlis Dambrāns for providing the base image. CC BY 2.0 Facebook’s suffered three outages this month; two of…

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