My friend's company Iron.io laid off ~20 employees in SF (almost the entire company). Apparently their series A round brought in 12 million just a year ago.
It's a shame because Iron.io has truly fantastic offerings.
Better than anything from any of the major cloud providers. The only problem is that it's hard to beat having your entire platform in the one place. Especially for billing, security etc.
We had some pretty bad issues with them earlier this year. Queues would randomly change from push to pull, service outages, etc. Seems to have stabilized for the most part, but we aren't using them much now.
This is Chad, CEO of Iron.io. It's true that we had to make some hard decisions and say goodbye to some friends. That said, a majority of the team is still here and dedicated to operating and growing the company. IronWorker fires up millions of containers per day for our 300+ customers, and we are fully committed to both expanding the service as well as releasing a new, open source sync service, next week... stay tuned.
Feel free to reach out to me to discuss any of this, or if you simply want to talk serverless computing.
