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,…

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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…

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Running IronWorker on Docker + Node.js + Windows

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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…

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How Cine.io Uses Node.js and IronWorker to Handle Their Background Processing

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The following is a guest blog post by Thomas Shafer describing how cine.io deploys their workers within Iron.io to handle all of their background processing.   Cine.io is the only true developer-focused live streaming service. We offer APIs and SDKs for all mobile platforms and language frameworks and let developers build and ship live-streaming capabilities with…

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IronWorker Goes Hyperpolyglot – Adds Java, Node and Go Support

  A hyperpolyglot is one who can speak six or more languages fluently. The term was coined by the linguist Richard Hudson in 2003 and derives from the word “polyglot”, meaning one who can speak multiple languages. Today marks a major step forward for IronWorker as we’ve opened the platform to a wide array of…

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