Posts Tagged ‘IronWorker’
How to Get Started with AWS Fargate: A Complete Guide Tutorial and Next Steps
Introduction AWS Fargate is a serverless compute engine for running containers in the Amazon Web Services public cloud. As we discuss in our AWS Fargate overview, Fargate has a number of advantages to recommend it, including making your IT environment less complex and integrating with other AWS tools and services. Given these benefits, then, how can…
Read MoreWhat is AWS Lambda
In the past few years, Amazon Web Services and other public cloud providers have continued to expand in both size and number of offerings, trying to win users through benefits such as convenience, flexibility, and cost-effectiveness. AWS Lambda is an essential part of the Amazon Web Services toolkit: it’s a serverless computing solution that can run code…
Read MoreConcurrent vs Parallel Tasks for a Worker System
Overview Concurrent tasks progress at the same time in the worker system but they don’t progress simultaneously. Parallel tasks are executed by different workers at the same time. Concurrency refers to how a worker system handles multiple tasks while parallelism refers to how a worker system handles a single task. Concurrent tasks can either be…
Read MoreMicrocontainers – 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 MoreAWS Fargate Pricing and Alternatives
Overview In this article, we will cover AWS Fargate pricing. The areas that will be addressed are: Introduction to AWS Fargate AWS Fargate Pricing Breakdown AWS Compute Savings Plans Alternatives to AWS Fargate AWS Fargate and IronWorker: Other Context Factors Achieve Cloud Elasticity with Iron Schedule a call to find out why Fargate users are…
Read MoreThe Top 7 Container Management Software
Overview In this article, we will review the Top 7 container management solutions in 2020. The services we will be covering are: IronWorker Amazon ECS AWS Fargate Google Kubernetes Engine Apache Mesos Portainer Rancher Table of Contents Introduction The Top Container Management Software: IronWorker The Top Container Management Software: Amazon ECS The Top Container Management…
Read MoreAWS Fargate vs. IronWorker
vs Overview Deciding on a container management solution for your worker system is an important decision for startups and enterprises. This article will compare two industry leading container management services, AWS Fargate and IronWorker, in terms of: Schedule a demo today to find out why Fargate users are moving to IronWorker. Table of Contents Introduction…
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 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…
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