Iron.io: Stateless Computing Delivered
As firm believers in the growing DevOps and microservices movement, we’re excited to be joining forces with Iron.io, the leader in cloud application services, through participating in its latest Series A funding round.
In the era of modern cloud infrastructure, microservices have transformed the way developers build and deploy applications. Microservices architectures are designed to separate components into discrete functional elements or individual services, and developers benefit from this new model with reduced complexity and increased scalability.
Still though, many companies find themselves caught between highly-agile app development and still-cumbersome IT operations. Iron.io helps these companies by delivering and helping orchestrate highly-scalable infrastructure services for containers, microservices and event-driven applications.
Iron.io brings some of the oldest concepts in IT infrastructure –job scheduling and batch processing (yeah, all the way back from the punch-cards) — to the era of distributed massive-scale computing. And it does this in a way that allows you to avoid:
· Thinking about provisioning instances, VMs or servers for your application function
· Learning a framework for server logic
· Operating and managing the compute infrastructure
How great is that?!
Many of you are aware of Amazon Lambda, the service that runs snippets of JavaScript code in response to events. Iron.io allows companies to build and execute similar user-generated functions, in multiple languages, without the need for the user to worry about any of the supporting stack running said functions.
Iron.io has more than 600 customers across a broad spectrum of industries from Fortune 50 and down, performs half a million jobs and sends billions of messages every month.
CEO and Co-founder Chad Arimura and Co-founder Travis Reeder had a prescient vision for serverless computing when they started the company in 2011. Today, the microservices and container movements are playing perfectly into Iron.io’s architecture and market approach.
We look forward to helping Chad, Travis and the rest of the Iron.io team build on its impressive growth to date. By connecting the company with architecture and DevOps teams in our vast enterprise network as well with the over 400 companies in our Fund Investments portfolio we’ll strive to help Iron.io continually innovate and accelerate growth.
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