Posts Tagged ‘containers’
Microcontainers – Tiny, Portable Docker Containers
5 Reasons You Need Microcontainers Make Docker containers smaller Make Docker containers run faster Make Docker containers more secure Make Docker containers more reliable Take up fewer resources Introducing Microcontainers: Shrink Docker Containers Down to Size Docker lets you package an application (and all of the application’s dependencies) into a nice, neat self-contained image and place…
Read MoreOverview of AWS Fargate
AWS Fargate is a serverless container management service (container as a service) that allows developers to focus on their application and not their infrastructure. While AWS Fargate does help with container orchestration, it does leave areas of concern where IronWorker fills the void. This article will provide an overview of what is AWS Fargate. It…
Read MoreIntroducing: Computerless™
Iron was one of the pioneers of Serverless, so we’re excited to announce that we’ll also be one of the first companies to offer the next generation of compute: It’s called Computerless™. Unlike Serverless, this technology removes the physical machine completely. Our offering piggy-backs off the recent developments in fiber optic technology developed at the…
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 MoreBuzzwords: Microservices, Containers and Serverless at Goto Chicago
It was an honor to give a talk on the future of Serverless at goto Chicago, an enterprise developer conference running from May 24 to 25, 2016. As you can see from the full room, containers, microservices and serverless are popular topics with developers, and this interest extends across a wide swath of back-end languages,…
Read MoreMicroservices Architecture and Container Technology Explained
Guest blog by Bob Johnson Vice President & Principal Analyst at IDG Connect Fighting for space in the world of web based services and applications needs a quick eye and a strong software development arm, and companies everywhere are looking at new ways to boost agility and shorten their time to market. One of these is microservices,…
Read MoreMicrocontainers, and Logging in Docker: Iron.io CTO speaks at Docker NYC
Travis Reeder, the co-founder and CTO of Iron.io, spoke at last night’s Docker NYC meetup about Microcontainers. In addition, Hermann Hesse of Sumo Logic spoke about Logging in Docker. Iron.io is a big proponent of microcontainers, which are minimalistic docker containers that can still process full-fledged jobs. We’ve seen microcontainers gaining traction amongst software architects and developers because their…
Read MoreGet a Job, Container: A Serverless Workflow with Iron.io
This post originally appeared on DZone Overview My previous post, Distinguished Microservices: It’s in the Behavior, made a comparison between two types of microservices – real-time requests (“app-centric”) and background processes (“job-centric”). As a follow-up, I wanted to take a deeper look at job-centric microservices as they set the stage for a new development paradigm…
Read MoreDistinguished Microservices: It’s in the Behavior
This post originally appeared on DZone Microservices is more than just an academic topic. It was born out of the challenges from running distributed applications at scale; enabled by recent advancements in cloud native technologies. What started as a hot topic between developers, operators, and architects alike, is now catching on within the enterprise because…
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