Buzzwords: Microservices, Containers and Serverless at Goto Chicago

It was an honor to give a talk on the future of Serverless at goto Chicago, an enterprise developer conference running from May 24 to 25, 2016. As you can see from the full room, containers, microservices and serverless are popular topics with developers, and this interest extends across a wide swath of back-end languages,…

Read More

The E.T. in ETL

The E.T. in ETL

Thanks to JD Hancock for the base image! CC BY 2.0 Anyone who’s ever done ETL knows it can get seriously funky. When I first started working on ETL, I was parsing data for a real estate company. Every once in awhile roofing data would appear in the pool field. “Shingles” isn’t a compelling feature…

Read More

Running IronWorker on Docker + Node.js + Windows

blank

Exosphere champions best of breed cloud applications. In their own words, “We’ve set out on a mission, a quest if you will, to gather together the best small to medium applications in each class, and try to bolt them together in such a way that combined they form a powerful, user-friendly, complete core small business…

Read More

Helpful hints: Pre-commit

I had a lot of fun sharing pre-commit with everyone earlier this week. In case you missed it, here’s a link. As a follow up, I whipped together a quick How-To video. In it, you’ll follow along as I add a pre-commit hook to a brand new Node.js project. Init a git repo locally, and you can the same…

Read More

A Better Mobile Compute Cloud: NodeJS + Iron.io (repost from ShoppinPal)

blank

There are number of tools for creating mobile apps but the one area that can be challenging is handling the background processing that takes place within mobile applications. A popular mobile app, ShoppingPal, is using Iron.io to handle its background processing needs with great results. They wrote a recent post on their success in moving…

Read More

How Kuhcoon uses IronWorker and Node.js to improve social media advertising

blank

[This post is part of a series of customer success stories that Chad Arimura is putting together highlighting key customers and how they are using Iron.io to do some pretty big things.] Kuhcoon offers a suite of tools built around the management and optimization of social media advertising for businesses. They provide two tools – a…

Read More

How a simple Node.js project turned into Iron Scheduler (guest post)

blank

This is a guest post from David Hessing, Director of Data Analytics at Appirio, on how a simple project to teach himself Node.js turned into Iron Scheduler, a powerful scheduling tool built on top of IronWorker.    The Power of Task Processing in the Cloud [David Hessing] I remember coming across Iron.io’s services and immediately being intrigued. IronWorker…

Read More