47 posts authored by “Alexandros Marinos”

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Resin.io changes name to balena, releases open source edition

Today we’re excited to announce that resin.io is becoming balena. That’s right, we’re changing our name! Coinciding with the new name, we’re also releasing a beta version of openBalena, the open source edition of our core platform. Our team just returned home from our annual summit, where we discussed the accelerating growth of our fleet over the past year, as well as all of the released and…

October 25, 2018 / 6 min

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Etcher: Now with multi-write and Compute Module support!

We’re more than pleased to announce the release of Etcher 1.4.3, probably the most exciting release of Etcher since its initial launch two years ago. To understand why this release is so exciting, take a look at this picture: What you see here is Etcher flashing multiple instances of the Project Fin board. That sounds like a couple of things Etcher isn’t supposed to be able to do. So what’s going…

April 24, 2018 / 4 min

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Introducing Project Fin: a board for fleet owners

Update February 2023: On February 1st 2023 we made the decision to cease manufacturing the balenaFin due to production and supply chain challenges, the balenaFin design files have been released to the public and will be available indefinitely. You can find the source files here. Update February 2019: we have now officially launched the balenaFin v1.1 - read the announcement here or buy now Today…

March 19, 2018 / 6 min

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Multicontainer on resin.io is here!

On behalf of everyone on the resin.io team, I couldn’t be more excited to announce that resin.io now supports running multiple containers. This has been the #1 requested feature over the last year, by resin.io users of every shape and size. Makers, startups, industrials and global enterprises agree: multicontainer multiplies the value of the resin.io platform. Thinking back to the earliest days of…

March 08, 2018 / 6 min

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Announcing balenaEngine: a container engine for IoT based on Moby technology from Docker

TL;DR: balenaEngine is a new container engine based on Moby Project technology from Docker, with an emphasis on embedded and IoT use cases, and fully compatible with Docker containers. Compared to the standard Docker container engine, it supports container deltas for 10-70x more efficient bandwidth usage, has 3.5x smaller binaries, uses RAM and storage more conservatively, and focuses on atomicity…

October 12, 2017 / 6 min

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The status and future of open source resin.io

It's been a while since we promised to open source enough of resin.io so that, if you’re willing to do the work, you can run a fleet without our assistance or permission. A lot of progress has been made in this direction, and we have a clear plan on the way forward. Open source status check About two years ago, we promised that we’d release an open source version of resin.io that would allow users…

June 06, 2017 / 6 min

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The Raspberry Pi and other SBCs are the IBM PCs of our time. From educational project to industry disruptor.

It surprises some to learn that the Raspberry Pi has sold more than 10 million units, becoming the third most popular general purpose computing platform, surpassing the Commodore64, and trailing only, as expected, the Mac and the PC. Some might take offense at the particular slicing and dicing required to formulate the record, others might comment on how far it is from #2. But they’d be missing…

April 05, 2017 / 7 min

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The Perils of Writing Disk Images on Windows

This is a story about how we had to go into the guts of Windows to figure out how to write to a USB drive with JavaScript without getting a permission error. But let's take it from the top. Etcher is an Electron app, based on a from-scratch implementation of a node.js engine to write to SD cards and USB flash drives, which is designed to work on all platforms. In case that was too easy, we set out…

September 28, 2016 / 6 min

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Resin.io Secures $9 Million in Funding to Accelerate Growth of Next Generation IoT DevOps Platform

DFJ, GE Ventures, Ericsson, and Aspect Ventures Make Strategic Investment in Emerging Start-up to Modernize Deployment to Connected Devices Seattle, WA, June 27, 2016 -- Resin.io, provider of a modern DevOps management platform for connected devices, today announced that it has secured $9 million in funding from DFJ, GE Ventures, Ericsson, and Aspect Ventures. Resin.io was founded in 2013 with a…

June 26, 2016 / 3 min

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ARTIK & ARTIK Cloud tutorial

Yesterday, during the opening keynote for SDC we released official support for the Samsung Artik 10 & 5. With the help of our partner Snappin.io we put together a live demo which you can watch below. In this post, we'll run through a minimalist version of our onstage demo to illustrate how to update your ARTIK with speed and safety. In particular, we’ll learn how to: Setup an ARTIK device with…

April 29, 2016 / 8 min

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Announcing Etcher

Presenting Etcher: A better way to write SD cards. Writing SD cards is a neglected, and very platform-specific affair, which means using “dd” on certain platforms, (and risking overwriting your hard drive) and downloading software from SourceForge on others (and risking catching spyware). None of the common writers verify that what made it to the SD card is what was intended. In general, it feels…

April 01, 2016 / 4 min

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Open-sourcing resin.io, part three: The universal base image

It’s taken us a while to release the next installment of internal code. Sometimes the simplest things take the longest time. With the device software now fully open source, the next logical step is the backend services. Our backend services are all built on a uniform base image called resin-base. This image is based on resin/amd64-systemd:jessie - an in-house base image which is the same image we…

March 09, 2016 / 2 min

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Will resin.io ever support Android?

We some times get the question of whether resin.io will ever support Android devices. There's a lot to unpack with a question like that, and we've recently been doing some research to be able to give an informed answer. This post is intended to act as a thought experiment, independent of what's currently on our roadmap or planning. Along the way, we'll share some of the insights we had while deep…

February 23, 2016 / 5 min

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How we run a remote team at resin.io

on a boat We're on a BOAT! Greece, resin.io summit '15 If you've looked at our team page, you may have noticed we have people in 10 different countries, with clusters in Seattle, Athens, and London. While we started down this path by necessity, we jumped in with both feet early on and we now consider it one of our core strengths. We're often asked about this and how we manage a team so distributed…

January 28, 2016 / 6 min

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Good, Better, Beast!

Beast 2.0 -- Taking Single Board Computer clusters to the next level About a year ago, we wrote about the Beast, our 120 Raspberry Pi cluster. Since then, we’ve had a lot of experience with it. First surprise was that the Beast never spent too long in one place. It was never meant to leave London, but a quick search of Twitter shows photos of it at various events, and that’s just some of what the…

December 09, 2015 / 3 min

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Resin.io collaborates with Microsoft to add IoT management to Microsoft Azure

Resin.io joins Microsoft Azure certified for Internet of Things to accelerate IoT development worldwide Seattle, Washington, [September 29, 2015] -- Resin.io, a modern DevOps management platform for connected devices, today announced that it is among a select group of companies chosen to join the Microsoft Azure for Internet of Things (IoT). By being a part of Azure Certified for IoT, customers…

September 28, 2015 / 3 min