Posts Tagged ‘Go’
Go, IronWorker, and SendGrid at Gengo (a repost)
Shawn Smith from Gengo recently wrote a post on their use of Go, the programming language that we also use at Iron.io for our backend services. (Gengo is a popular people-powered translation platform based in Tokyo and San Mateo.)The post discusses several of the apps where they’re using Go including a deployment app and several…
Read MoreEvan Shaw speaking at Gopher SummerFest
Evan Shaw, one of Iron.io’s top systems engineer, is speaking at the Gopher SummerFest on June 23rd. The event is produced by GoSF, the largest Go language user group in the world, and sponsored by Google and Iron.io. GoSF is approaching 1200 members and comprised of CTOs, engineering heads, system architects, and developers from around…
Read MoreBuilding an Analytics Engine using MongoDB, Go, and Iron.io
Building a Relevancy Engine Using MongoDB and Go On the heels of a recent post on powering intelligent traffic systems using MongoDB and Iron.io comes a presentation on building an analytics engine using MongoDB, Go, and Iron.io. William Kennedy gave a presentation on his recent work at GopherCon and friends of ours from Sourcegraph were kind enough to write up details…
Read MoreIron.io will be at GopherCon (Apr 24th-26th)
GopherCon 2014 Iron.io is a sponsor of GopherCon and we’ll have several of our team in attendance. The conference is in Denver, CO and runs from April 24-26. We jumped in early as a sponsor as we’re a big user of Go and we’re glad we did. The attendance will be off the charts as…
Read MoreGo Sessions: Teaching Go to Experienced Devs (via GoSF)
As a result of the growing interest in Go, Travis Reeder and other GoSF organizers have decided to create a program within GoSF to teach Go programming concepts and fundamentals. We’re calling them Go Sessions and they consist of evening guided pair-programming sessions. Iron.io is one of main organizers of the GoSF meetup and we’ve…
Read MoreQueuing and Processing Your Way To Scalability using Go and Iron.io (reposted)
We came across another great post by William Kennedy on running scaling out applications using Iron.io platform and Go programming language. He wrote an excellent post on using Go with IronWorker several months back. William writes Going Go Programming and so he certainly knows what he’s talking about when it comes to Go. We’re big fans…
Read MoreGoSF Talk: Travis Reeder on Go after 2 Years in Production
Travis Reeder, Iron.io’s CTO, gave a talk recently at a GoSF meetup on Iron.io’s use of Go. We’re big proponents of Go, using it for all our backend components and have written or talked about our experiences in a number of places (here, here, and here). Travis’ talk here is a compilation of a number…
Read MoreMore Go Use in Production (Pivotal CF)
Travis Reeder, Iron.io co-founder and CTO, was at DevBeat 2013 on Tuesday talking about Iron.io’s use of Go language for our API services and backend functionality. (We use Ruby and other languages for workers and our app framework but Go has a special place here for things that need to run fast and handle high…
Read MoreIron.io @ DevBeat 2013 (talking about Go)
DevBeat 2013 – Nov 12-13th Iron.io be at the DevBeat 2013 conference in San Francisco on Nov 12-13th. It’s a great conference for experienced developers and includes a number of top developer speakers – including Travis Reeder, Iron.io’s CTO. Travis will be talking about Iron.io’s use of Go in production. It’s been two years…
Read MoreRunning Go on IronWorker (reposted)
Going Go: Running Go Programs in IronWorker We came across a great post by William Kennedy on running Go tasks in IronWorker. It’s a detailed article that had a few of our developer evangelists a bit envious in the care and detail it takes in walking developers through the process. (Using IronWorker is not difficult…
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