DockerWorker Unplugged
Overview Today, the world revolves around developers. Digital businesses are becoming a significant part of the landscape. A traditional business thrives on its responsiveness to customers and how it handles business data. People used to talk about the Era of Information Technology, however, now we’re in the Era of the Developer. Fast-moving businesses recognize the…
Read MoreHubble Gets Lean With Microservices and Iron.io
As microservices continues to spread through the industry as a dominant pattern for building modern cloud applications, marquee examples from large-scale companies such as Netflix and Twitter may appear daunting to companies still on a growth path. When powering through agile cycles to release new features at a rapid pace, the last thing on your…
Read MoreHow HotelTonight Streamlined their ETL Process Using IronWorker
HotelTonight has reinvented the task of finding and booking discounted hotel rooms at travel destinations. Designed for last-minute travel planners and optimized for the mobile era, HotelTonight connects adventure-seeking, impulse travelers with just-in-time available hotel rooms wherever they land. This model has the market-enhancing effect of reducing excess inventory of unused hotel rooms, while delivering…
Read MoreCEO Chad Arimura Speaking at IoT Stream Conference in April
Chad Arimura, CEO and Co-Founder of Iron.io, will be speaking at IoT StreamConf conference in April. We’re also sponsors of the event. This conference will bring together architects and builders to discuss best practices and the emerging IoT technology stack. If you want to collaborate with hands-on people solving real IoT challenges, IOT Stream Conf…
Read MoreThe New Docker Based IronWorker Development Workflow
Overview Creating a simple IronWorker worker can be quick and easy. But if you’ve used IronWorker to build a complex worker, you may have found the experience a bit cumbersome. The reason is that sometimes you just don’t know if your worker will run the same way it does when you run it locally, due…
Read MoreSmart 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
Read MoreIron.io Launches IronWorker within the Azure Marketplace
Iron.io is pleased to announce it is offering its IronWorker platform as an Application Service within the Azure Marketplace, providing a key infrastructure component that gives developers immediate access to highly scalable event-driven computing services. Every application in the cloud needs to process workloads on a continuous basis, at scale, on a schedule, or in…
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