Iron was one of the pioneers of Serverless, so we’re excited to announce that we’ll also be one of the first companies to offer the next generation of compute: It’s called Computerless™.
Unlike Serverless, this technology removes the physical machine completely. Our offering piggy-backs off the recent developments in fiber optic technology developed at the University of Oxford. If you haven’t heard about this breakthrough, we’ll do our best to explain:
Researchers have found a way to control how light travels at the molecular level, thus being in complete control of the resulting attenuation. Molecular gates can then be created, and state stored in finite wavelengths. It’s somewhat equivalent to qubits in quantum computing, but in the case of optical fiber, it’s a physical reality.
The end result of this technological release allows for computers to be fully encapsulated in fiber optic cable. The usual components needed are now mapped 1-to-1, via light. This has allowed Iron’s infrastructure to completely change. While we’ve run our infrastructure on public clouds like AWS and GCP in the past, we’ve been able to leave that all behind. We’re now able to push our entire suite of products into optical cable itself:
Iron’s new and improved infrastructure on a cheap plot of land in Arkansas
In the next few months, we’ll be pushing all of our customer’s sensitive data into the cables shown above as well as running all Worker jobs through them. We’re pretty sure the cables we purchased are for multi-tenant applications, so you can probably rest assured that we’re doing the right thing. In fact, NASA has already expressed an interest in licensing this technology from Iron. Other interested parties include the government of French Guiana and defense conglomerate Stark Industries.
Researchers have kind-of concluded that this technology is ready for prime time, and also are quick to state the fact that in 1998, The Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer’s table.
