Posts Tagged ‘Microservices’
Smart Endpoints. Smart Pipes. Smarter Microservices.
Overview: This is the second post in a series on microservices. Read our previous post on the service computing environment: The Ephemeral Life of Dockerized Microservices. The use of microservices is a growing trend in application development because it provides an answer to the overhead incurred by monolithic applications. The practice of breaking apart…
Read MoreThe Ephemeral Life of Dockerized Microservices
Overview When using the word ‘ephemeral’, it’s hard not to think of Snapchat these days, however, the concept applies to the on-demand computing pattern we promote here at Iron.io with our task processing service IronWorker. At a glance, each Docker container in which a task runs is only alive for the duration of the process…
Read MoreMicroservices for Good: How Angel Flight West Uses Technology to Help People in Need
With the holiday season upon us, we thought it would be a fitting time to to highlight a wonderful non-profit organization and how they use technology for a great purpose. Angel Flight West : A Mission for Good
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