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iron-io / functions

functions

IronFunctions - the serverless microservices platform by

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IronFunctions - the serverless microservices platform by

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Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 2:17:07 AM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year12 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2016-11-15 19:24:23 UTC to 2022-10-15 11:52:10 UTC.

0123452016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 1 submissions, 4 comments20162017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 0 submissions, 5 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2022

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC514
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC505
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202

What Hacker News says

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nmaggioni·Aug 26, 2017
LXC Containers: - Koel (Web-based music player; https://github.com/phanan/koel) - Aria2 (generic downloader; https://aria2.github.io/) - GPodder (podcast downloader; https://gpodder.github.io/) - PiHole (mostly for curiosity, I now use full-blown DNS & DHCP servers; https://pi-hole.net/) - OpenVPN (https://openvpn.net/) - Pritunl (OpenVPN failover; https://pritunl.com/) - PlexPy (Plex monitoring; https://github.com/JonnyWong16/plexpy) - BIND (DNS server; https://wiki.debian.org/Bind9) - ISC-DHCP (https://wiki.debian.org/DHCP_Server) - Smokeping (connection monitoring; https://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/) - Ansible (central host with playbooks; https://www.ansible.com/) - Graylog (log aggregation; https://www.graylog.org/) - Wallabag ("read it later"; https://wallabag.org/en) - Home Assistant (home automation; https://home-assistant.io/) - B
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ookstack (documentation; https://www.bookstackapp.com/) - Observium (network devices monitoring; https://www.observium.org/) VMs: - PfSense (firewall & permanent VPN for some containers; https://www.pfsense.org/) - Rancher (Docker orchestration; http://rancher.com/) Rancher (Cattle environment): + ELK stack (https://www.elastic.co/) + Concourse CI (just to experiment, I prefer GitLab's CI; https://concourse.ci/) + Dumpster (my own temporary file upload platform, with additional YubiKey support; https://github.com/nmaggioni/dumpster) + Own Telegram bot (talks with ELK) + Let's Encrypt renewal daemon + FaaS (either https://github.com/iron-io/functions or https://github.com/alexellis/faas, even though I'm actually waiting for https://openwhisk.incubator.apache.org/) + Private Docker registry I may have left something out, some more services/containers/VMs are disabled due to low usage.
In Ask HN: What are your favourite self-hosted tools?
hbt·Mar 22, 2017
Anyone knows how this compare to iron functions https://github.com/iron-io/functions Looks similar. Docker image with entry point but the entry point is a server instead of process and it reuses the docker container instead of shutting it down Would be great to get a quick comparison between the two. Another tool in the same category is hook.io microcule https://github.com/Stackvana/microcule both iron functions and microcule are battle tested by companies
In Show HN: FaaS – Serverless functions framework for Docker

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