Announcing Project Picasso – OpenStack Functions as a Service
We are pleased to announce a new project to enable Functions as a Service (FaaS) on OpenStack — Picasso. The mission is to provide an API for running FaaS on OpenStack, abstracting away the...
View ArticleAnnouncing Hot Functions for IronFunctions
IronFunctions is a serverless application platform. Unlike AWS Lambda it’s open-source, can run on any cloud — public, on-premise, or hybrid, and language agnostic, while maintaining AWS Lambda...
View ArticleIronFunctions Alpha 2
Today we are excited to announce the second alpha release of IronFunctions, the language-agnostic serverless microservices platform that you can run anywhere; on public, private, and hybrid clouds,...
View ArticleSecuring Serverless
Guy Podjarny published a great blog post discussing the Serverless space from a security perspective. I highly recommend reading it as it touches on some great points, going over both the security...
View ArticleIn Books: The San Francisco Fallacy
One of Iron’s original investors, Jonathan Siegel, released a book this week that any entrepreneur (or anybody who’s worked in the bay area) should definitely read. It’s titled, “The San Francisco...
View ArticleFull Circle and Ramping up at Iron.io
Iron.io was recently acquired by Xenon Ventures, a private equity, and venture capital firm. Xenon Ventures is headed by Jonathan Siegel, a serial entrepreneur who has founded many popular software...
View ArticleRobotics with Iron
We recently sponsored a robotics event in Tokyo held by OnLab, DigitalGarage and Psygig… and, it was awesome. Also, yes… the course below was an actual course from the event. The participants were to...
View ArticleGPU support in IronWorker
In the past few months, we’ve spoken to quite a few customer that have added Machine Learning (ML) tasks into IronWorker. The problem is, these tasks can take a significant amount of time on a CPU vs a...
View ArticleTop 10 Uses of a Worker System
A worker system is an essential part of any production-scale cloud application. The ability to run tasks asynchronously in the background, process tasks concurrently at scale, or schedule jobs to run...
View ArticleTop 10 Uses For A Message Queue
Geese love queues. (Image by D.Hilgart) We’ve been working with, building, and evangelising message queues for the last year, and it’s no secret that we think they’re awesome. We believe message queues...
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