Heroku vs Docker: Which is Best for Developers?

Heroku vs Docker: Which is Best for Developers?

Heroku and Docker are both container-based development environments, ideal for developers to deploy applications without needing the resources required for virtual machines or physical servers. Containers are flexible, scalable, and because they contain a kernel of the operating system in each container, work seamlessly across a range of devices. But how do developers know which development environment is best for them?…

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Google Cloud Run vs. Heroku

Google Cloud Run vs. Heroku

Choosing the right serverless platform for containerised applications can be tough. We’ve picked two of the most popular: Heroku, one of the first Platform as a Service (PaaS) for developers, and the relatively new Google Cloud Run, to see how each performs for Docker container deployment. Achieve Cloud Elasticity with Iron Speak to us to…

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Google Cloud Run vs. Azure Container Instances

Google Cloud Run vs. Azure Container Instances

Deploying your container images on a serverless platform means less resource management and maintenance for you or your business. But which platform is the best? We explore Google Cloud Run and Microsoft Azure Container Instances (ACI) and discuss which cloud providers perform well with Docker images and which is the best value. Achieve Higher productivity…

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Webhook vs API: What’s the Difference?

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Overview Webhook vs. API: 5 Key Differences and Similarities APIs need instruction to retrieve or manipulate data. Webhooks make automated calls based on a specific event or events. Both are used to help systems or web services communicate and share or transfer data. APIs are most useful for rapidly changing data. Webhooks are most useful…

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Cloud Tasks Overview

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Overview Cloud Tasks is a managed service from Google that helps clients manage and distribute tasks to their queues. As a result, developers gain numerous benefits that help them build applications and other products more efficiently while cutting costs. While Cloud Tasks has a lot of features, asynchronous code execution stands out as the one…

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What Is CaaS (Containers as a Service)?

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Overview CaaS, which stands for containers as a service, has been growing in popularity over the last decade as more organizations look for ways to control tasks while leveraging the benefits of technology. CaaS takes uses cloud technology to control containers. Containers are applications that contain all of the code and libraries that they need…

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Evolution of development process

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Overview If you’ve followed our series on the evolution of IT, you know that we still need to talk about how the development process has changed over the years, which is where we pick up today. Improvements in the development process have shortened the time to create software and decreased fragmentation between different departments in a…

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Cloud Agnostic Architecture Strategies

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The landscape of business IT and computing has altered dramatically over the last few years. At least 91% of organizations have adopted the public cloud for a multitude of tasks. Public Cloud refers to cloud computing services such as storage, software, and virtual machines provided by third parties over the internet. Some of the biggest public cloud providers…

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DevOps: What is the Future of DevOps?

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The term “DevOps” is a phrase that was coined by Patrick Debois approximately ten years ago. It is used to describe the methodology behind operation and development engineers working together from design to development. Developing a strong understanding of DevOps allows you to experience improvements regarding the efficiency and quality of the development of your…

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Best DevOps Tools

DevOps Tools

DevOps processes help companies to overcome the organizational challenges in an efficient, robust, and repeatable way. DevOps tools are a collection of complementary, task-specific tools that can be combined to automate processes. IronWorker and IronMQ are two DevOps tools from Iron.io that can help your business save money and scale on demand. The following solutions…

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