3 Key Benefits to Container-Based Background Job Processing

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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…

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Docker, Inc isn’t Dead

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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…

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The Overhead of Docker Run

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First published on Medium on 10/11/2016. We use Docker a lot. Like a lot, lot. While we love it for a lot of things, it still has a lot of room for improvement. One of those areas that could use improvement is the startup/teardown time of running a container. Table of Contents The Test 4…

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Buzzwords: 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,…

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Gartner Names Iron.io on 2016 “Cool Vendor” List

Here’s some cool news. Iron.io was recently named a “Cool Vendor” in the Cool Vendors in Platform as a Service, 2016[1] report by Gartner. The report puts Iron.io on an extremely short list with just three other vendors in the space: Clusterpoint in London, England; Flybits in Toronto, Canada; and Neoway out of Florianopolis, Brazil.…

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Microcontainers, 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…

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GoSF: The 1.6 Release Party at Docker HQ

Go 1.6 Launch Party

Lightning, thunder, and even hail swept through SF yesterday. But, that didn’t deter hundreds from hustling to Docker’s HQ for the Go 1.6 release party! GoSF received over 470 signups, a nice sum for a relatively young language. Yesterday’s launch party boasted trivia, stuffed gopher giveaways, and a limited run T-shirt from Iron.io’s Bruce Lu. Oh, and…

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Introducing Custom Docker Images, Private Docker Repositories and Environment Variables

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We’re happy to announce three awesome new IronWorker features: Custom Docker Images for all and Docker is now the default code packaging mechanism Support for private Docker images on any Docker Registry, including Docker Hub Support for custom environment variables Table of Contents Custom Docker Image for All! Private Docker Repositories Environment Variables That’s it…

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Running IronWorker on Docker + Node.js + Windows

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Exosphere champions best of breed cloud applications. In their own words, “We’ve set out on a mission, a quest if you will, to gather together the best small to medium applications in each class, and try to bolt them together in such a way that combined they form a powerful, user-friendly, complete core small business…

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Shepherding Containers

Shepherding Containers

Thanks to Yahoo for the base image CC BY 2.0 Overview As one of the earliest users of Docker, I’ve had the pleasure of creating and working with multiple different platforms built on containers. Each platform has evolved in step with the current ecosystem around it, and I’ve gotten the chance to really put Docker’s…

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