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The Iron.io Blog
Company blog · iron.io/blog · on HN as carimurasystemsprogramming
The Iron.io Blog is the company blog at iron.io, writing about systems and programming. Since 2011, 28 different Hacker News readers have linked it 42 times, most often “1M Msg/sec: IronMQv3 Hits Dos Commas”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (20) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Comments link the Iron.io blog for write-ups on container image sizes, a Go rewrite that cut servers from 30 to 2, and serverless cost against AWS Lambda. Most comments point to the company's product pages instead.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 20 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
DevOps serverless application tools to run background tasks with Docker containers and manage messaging queues with cloud elasticity and no vendor lock-in
Most-linked posts?
- /worker5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2013-06-19
- 1M Msg/sec: IronMQv3 Hits Dos Commas2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-03-30
- /how-we-went-from-30-servers-to-2-go/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-06-21
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-04-29
- /worker/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-10-30
- Microcontainers – Tiny, Portable Docker Containers2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-01-25
- What is Serverless Computing and why is it important?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-07-20
What Hacker News says?
It's up to you to make your containers bloated or keep them slim. You can use the alpine versions of the official Dockerhub images. Python on Alpine is 30 MB (vs 267 MB for the debian one). https://hub.docker.com/r/library/python/tags/ You can create containers that are just a few MB with compiled languages like Go (5 MB). https://www.iron.io/microcontainers-tiny-portable-containers... From the article: "Rather than…
Comment linking /microcontainers-tiny-portable-containers/
on “WTF is a container?”Submitted Microcontainers – Tiny, Portable Docker Containers as a story · 209 points
HN discussionSomething like this? http://www.iron.io/worker
Comment linking /worker
on “Ask HN: Idea Sunday”Submitted IronFunctions Alpha 2 as a story · 23 points
HN discussionI have to say I love the work iron.io does. Their "iron worker"[1] service is awesome (think Amazon Lambda for pretty much any common language). [1] http://www.iron.io/worker/
Comment linking /worker/
on “Microcontainers – Tiny, Portable Docker Containers”Submitted What is Serverless Computing and why is it important? as a story · 16 points
HN discussionThese guys went from 30 servers to 2 by switching to Go. http://www.iron.io/blog/2013/03/how-we-went-from-30-servers-...
Comment linking /blog/2013/03/how-we-went-from-30-servers-to-2-go.html
on “A little Golang way”Submitted 1M Msg/sec: IronMQv3 Hits Dos Commas as a story · 16 points
HN discussionHave you looked at ironworker? http://www.iron.io/worker
Comment linking /worker
on “Ask HN: Passive income ideas?”Submitted Hot Functions: Reusing Containers in IronFunctions as a story · 13 points
HN discussionThere are tons of blog posts about companies that have switched from Ruby or Python to Go and have been able to massively scale down their amount of servers while handling the same load. Here's one example: https://www.iron.io/how-we-went-from-30-servers-to-2-go/ I don't think it's weird that the web server could be a bottleneck in a web application (even if it is a database-driven app, as most are). Of course, if y…
Comment linking /how-we-went-from-30-servers-to-2-go/
on “Iris: Fast back-end web framework for Go”Submitted IronMQ v3 is 10x Faster than RabbitMQ as a story · 6 points
HN discussionThere's a free tier which you may be interested in: http://www.iron.io/pricing#worker There's then pay-per-second pricing if you go outside of your plan (which I assume covers the free tier, but I don't know) [edit - if you have this enabled, you don't have to] > Compute hours that exceed the rated plan will be billed at a rate of $0.075/hr. The free plan provides 10 hours/mo. Edit 2 - Disclaimer, I don't work for t…
Comment linking /pricing
on “AWS Lambda: Run Java Code in Response to Events”Submitted Top Uses for a Message Queue as a story · 3 points
HN discussionApex is a framework used to help build and deploy applications on Lambda. This project appears to be a way to run your own Lambda service locally. There are other projects out there like OpenWhisk[1], Iron Worker[2], Gestalt[3], and Funktion[4]. [1] - https://github.com/openwhisk/openwhisk [2] - https://www.iron.io/platform/ironworker/ [3] - https://galacticfog.github.io/ [4] - https://github.com/fabric8io/funktion…
Comment linking /platform/ironworker/
on “OpenLambda, a system for serverless computing”Submitted Microcontainers – Tiny, Portable Docker Containers as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIf you're a long-time developer and just coming across this, it should be... old news. The Techempower benchmarks [1] have consistently shown Ruby on Rails results can be in the range of 1/30 to 1/40th speed of C, C++, Scala, Java and Go, depending on the kind of task. The first thing I thought of actually was an article from 2013, on replacing Ruby with Go [2]. I'm surprised there aren't more of these sort of artic…
Comment linking /how-we-went-from-30-servers-to-2-go/
on “Why functional programming matters”Submitted Microcontainers – Tiny, Portable Docker Containers as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI work at Iron.io[1]. Our new SimpleWorker API[2] is written in Go and we'll soon be releasing another service implemented with Go. [1] http://iron.io/ [2] http://blog.simpleworker.com/2011/11/simpleworker-has-shiny-...
Comment linking /
on “The Go Programming Language turns two”Submitted Is Open Source Eating the World? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionDoes http://www.iron.io/ fit your usecase?
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on “Ask HN: What's your best startup idea that you're not going to pursue?”Submitted 2015 Container Summit notes and learnings, Part 1 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI talk about cost being the main factor in this post about the benefits of Serverless. It's definitely the driving factor: https://www.iron.io/what-is-serverless-computing/
Comment linking /what-is-serverless-computing/
on “Serverless computing on DC/OS with Galactic Fog”Submitted At SCALE 2015 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSurprised they didn't mention IronMQ: http://www.iron.io/mq It's not perfect but pretty damn close. And it run on AWS et al.
Comment linking /mq
on “Comparing Message Queue Architectures on AWS”Submitted E Is for Event. A Fresh Take on ETL as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIron Workers: http://www.iron.io/worker/ Most new breed Docker hosts like http://tutum.co can give you a quick DIY version. But in general they (Amazon) are (currently) the best of breed and I have only positive things to say having used the JS and Java versions.
Comment linking /worker/
on “Ask HN: What are the alternatives to Amazon Lambda?”Submitted When Microservices make sense as a story · 2 points
HN discussionJust for clarification, the IronWorker platform by Iron.io supports large enterprise deployments in cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments, so it scales from small hosted projects to very large deployments processing millions of jobs per hour. http://www.iron.io/enterprise/
Comment linking /enterprise/
on “Kala: A Modern Job Scheduler (written in Go)”Submitted The Workloads of the Internet of Things as a story · 2 points
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