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Iron.io Releases Enhanced Security Package – IP Whitelisting, VPN, and VPC Support

By Iron | March 16, 2015

Iron.io is pleased to announce the release of an enhanced security package for our IronMQ and IronWorker platforms. This package…

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An Outside View on Microservices : Agility and Scale

By Iron | February 17, 2015

Alex Bakker, a research director at Saugatuck Technology,  just put out a pretty good post on microservices entitled Agility, Microservices, and…

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Smart Endpoints. Smart Pipes. Smarter Microservices.

By Iron | February 5, 2015

Overview:   This is the second post in a series on microservices. Read our previous post on the service computing…

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Iron.io Speaking on Docker in Production [Feb 11th]

By Iron | January 27, 2015

Travis Reeder, CTO and co-founder at Iron.io, and Reed Allman, a systems engineer, will be talking about Docker in Production…

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The Ephemeral Life of Dockerized Microservices

By Iron | January 22, 2015

Overview When using the word ‘ephemeral’, it’s hard not to think of Snapchat these days, however, the concept applies to…

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AWS Lambda vs IronWorker

By Iron | January 8, 2015

Overview   If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then consider us flattered by Amazon. The new AWS Lambda…

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Microservices for Good: How Angel Flight West Uses Technology to Help People in Need

By Iron | December 24, 2014

With the holiday season upon us, we thought it would be a fitting time to to highlight a wonderful non-profit…

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Iron.io Launches IronWorker within the Azure Marketplace

By Iron | December 19, 2014

Iron.io is pleased to announce it is offering its IronWorker platform as an Application Service within the Azure Marketplace, providing…

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Reed Allman Speaking on the RocksDB Meetup Dec 4th

By Iron | November 26, 2014

Reed Allman, a systems-level engineer at Iron.io, will be talking at the RocksDB meetup on Thursday, December 4th, 2014. The…

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Iron.io Adds Named Schedules

By Iron | November 19, 2014

Iron.io is pleased to announce named schedules as a feature in its IronWorker service. Giving names or labels to schedules…

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Docker in Production — What We’ve Learned Launching Over 300 Million Containers

By Iron | October 21, 2014

  Docker in Production at Iron.io     Overview   Earlier this year, we made a decision to run every…

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CEO Chad Arimura Speaking at Data 360 Conference on Real-time Data

By Iron | October 20, 2014

Data 360° Conference (Oct 22-23, 2014) Chad Arimura, CEO and Co-Founder of Iron.io, will be speaking at the Data 360°…

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