See How Untappd Processes 100s of 1000s of Updates a Night

By Iron | November 19, 2015 |

Untappd, a mobile check-in app for beer lovers, helps beer lovers share their passion with friends and other beer lovers from around the world. With millions of users checking-in, tracking and sharing newly discovered beers and beer drinking locations, as well as earning points for coveted badges, the Untappd app’s processing power is tested daily.…

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Defrag 2015, Our Favorites From Day One

By Iron | November 12, 2015 |

Yesterday was the start of the 9th annual Defrag conference! What is Defrag? Defrag describes itself as: “We explore the frontiers of technology’s intersections with society, government, education, healthcare, and commerce through discussions and sessions rooted in topics like cloud computing, APIs, mobile technologies, big data, devops, the internet of things, and next generation human…

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First Class Support for Docker: Better Service, More Legroom

By Iron | November 5, 2015 |

Thanks to Richard Moross for the base image CC BY 2.0 Overview “Docker, please visit the front desk to receive your complimentary upgrade to first-class seating.“ That’s right, Docker just received a first-class upgrade on Iron.io. A ways back, Travis (our digital frontiers-man of a CTO) announced beta support for Docker. Today, we’re ripping off…

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Message Queues & Workers: the Heart of Modern Infrastructure

By Iron | October 20, 2015 |
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Thanks to Sonny Abesamis for the base image! CC BY 2.0 Increasingly, message queues and workers are intertwined with the language of modern infrastructure. You might rely on explicit solutions like IronMQ or IronWorker. You might not. Whether you do or don’t is irrelevant: MQs and workers are in everything these days. MQs and workers…

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E is for Event: A Fresh Take on ETL

By Iron | September 15, 2015 |
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As a follow up to my previous post, The Workloads of the Internet of Things, I wanted to walk through a real world example that fully captures the principles of event-driven computing put forth. Let’s set the stage first… imagine we operate a windmill farm and want to continually track optimal weather conditions to maximize…

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Iron.io Now Available in Microsoft Azure Marketplace

By Iron | September 10, 2015 |

Iron.io continues to grow its ecosystem of value-added partners. To this point, today you can now find Iron.io solutions in the Application Services within the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. Azure users can now directly leverage Iron.io within their applications to respond to application events, decouple components as independent services, offload individual workloads, and schedule regular occurring…

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Using IronWorker to Power Custom Service Integrations

By Iron | September 3, 2015 |
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The rise of the API economy in recent years has also given the integration economy a much needed breath of new life. What was once a painful process of dealing with proprietary formats and clunky middleware, has now become a streamlined process via openly consumable cloud-native REST APIs. As such, a new breed of services…

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What is a Worker???

By Iron | August 28, 2015 |
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Today, Iron.io sales engineer/teacher Yaron Sadka continues our FAQ video series by answering IronWorker related questions. In the following two videos he guides us through: What is a Worker? and What you use a Worker for? Stay posted for more of these FAQ video to come.  Click here if you have any questions or want to…

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Project Thor Will Deliver First True Hybrid IronWorker Solution

By Iron | June 16, 2015 |
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Today, Iron.io announced Project Thor, which is developing the world’s first hybrid job processing system. This is unlike anything we’ve done to date. Unlike previous IronWorker technology, Project Thor is architected to deliver the power of Iron.io to any server in the world in minutes. With Project Thor, the Iron.io IronWorker Docker container is deployed…

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