19 posts authored by “Craig Mulligan”

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Fleet-wide Machine Metrics Monitoring in 20mins

Great! Our click bait title worked! But seriously stick around, this tutorial will get you a Prometheus + Grafana monitoring setup for resin devices in no time. So a couple weeks ago we kicked the tires of Prometheus to see if it's monitoring capabilities could be extended further than stock servers to the real world of dispersed IoT devices. We created a resin application that ran the node…

August 04, 2016 / 6 min

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Monitoring linux stats with Prometheus.io

This is the first of two tutorials on monitoring machine metrics of your device fleet with Prometheus.io. prometheus Prometheus is a tool, initially built by soundcloud to monitor their servers, it is now open-source and completely community driven. It works by scraping "targets" which are endpoints that post key-attribute machine parseable data. Prometheus then stores each scrape as a frame in a…

July 06, 2016 / 7 min

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End-user controlled updates

The standard deployment flow for resin.io is completely automated, meaning that when you push an application to resin.io it is built, downloaded and automatically started on every device in your fleet. This is great, it allows for the "git push and forget about it" mentality, and satisfies the most common embedded use cases. However, there are use cases where more control is required, in cases…

May 26, 2016 / 2 min

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AGILE Research Project

Resin.io a Key Partner in Delivering Internet of Things Gateway Development and Deployment Technology for European Commission Funded Research Project AGILE logo Resin.io has been selected to participate in “Adaptive Gateways for Diverse Multiple Environments” (AGILE), a project funded by the European Commission Horizon 2020 Program. AGILE builds a modular hardware and software gateway for the…

April 01, 2016 / 1 min

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Virtual resin.io meetup

Web developers now enjoy a culture and set of tools that allow them to deploy software many times per day, quickly and safely. By contrast, much of the embedded world still operates on the annual software release cycle. We built resin.io with assumptions of what the future of IoT DevOps may look like. These assumptions are now taking shape in the real world. Next week, eclipse IoT will be hosting…

April 01, 2016 / 1 min

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Resin.io at ELC 2016

We are really excited to be attending ELC 2016 in part because it's been a long winter and it takes place in sunny San Diego but mostly because we get to show off what we have built over the last year. img This year our lead architect, Petros Angelatos, will be presenting the resin.io infrastructure, illustrating how the combination of open source technologies from the embedded and web worlds can…

April 01, 2016 / 1 min

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Updating an Arduino with resin.io

Micro-controllers are simple boards that can run C/C++ programs. They are easy to use and amazingly power efficient, but their simplicity typically makes them incompatible with resin.io since the resin service requires that a board can run Linux in order to manage Linux containers. A couple of weeks ago, however, one of our users explained how they were using resin.io to update their Raspberry Pi…

January 13, 2016 / 4 min

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Preloaded Containers - Burn & Ship

Last week I visited FWR, one our customers based in Milan, building snappin an advanced digital signage solution in a market they have coined as the 'Advertising of Things'.(I say coined, because I tried googling the term). They have a pretty great provisioning system using the resin.io's CLI and their own services to create a GUI application that allows staff at their factory to, in a few clicks…

December 14, 2015 / 1 min

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Resin.io brought IoT DevOps to DockerCon Europe

Stage Photo by Andrei Gherzan Docker is a core technology at resin.io as both our backend services and users' applications run in containers. That's why DockerCon is a massive event for us, it's littered with new ideas which could serve both us and our users. Our role in the opening keynote We were invited to take part in the opening keynote alongside littleBits, which are small components that…

November 23, 2015 / 4 min

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Intale uses resin.io to provide an end-to-end solution for the retail market

Intale develops integrated cloud solutions that connect and unify the retail market for small retail shops and convenience stores. Their POS app doesn't just facilitate transactions but improves the efficiency of all operations, automatically managing stocks and providing unique insights most small businesses are not accustomed to. As a result, communication between small businesses and the rest…

November 09, 2015 / 1 min

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Scheduling updates with resin.io

Last week we open-sourced our supervisor and released it's own API, which is a massive step in enhancing control of your devices running in the wild. The resin.io supervisor is a device-side agent that, for lack of a better word, supervises your application. It runs all resin related tasks. One task in particular which is both important for the purpose of this post and resin.io in general, is…

October 23, 2015 / 2 min

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Amazing automated 3D printing with NVBOTS

NVBOTS is a truly progressive approach to a progressive industry. Founders, AJ, Chris, Forrest & Mateo built their first 3D printer while studying at MIT but found that once they got over the initial fascination stage and started using it for practical uses it became practically difficult to manage and use. Multiple users scheduling printing jobs as well as ensuring someone was physically in the…

October 10, 2015 / 1 min

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Introducing resin.io wifi-connect

Update your device's wifi configuration from your phone Resin.io gives you an easy way to configure wifi before downloading and provisioning a device. This is great - but this doesn't work when your device is going to be deployed in a customer's network, where you don't know the credentials in advance. For this reason we built resin-wifi-connect, a simple production-ready tool that allows you to…

September 07, 2015 / 4 min

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Demystifying native node.js support & its caching caveats

As you may already be aware, resin.io offers native support for node.js. What this means is that you can push an ordinary node project and resin.io will build and run it on your devices without any modification. In contrast, a non-node.js project requires one to add a Dockerfile to a project to instruct resin.io how to build and run the container and subsequently your application. So how do we…

September 02, 2015 / 5 min

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PagerDuty for device fleets

In any part of the process, from the first line of code to v1.0, it is in a the developers best interest to outsource commonplace tools instead of building and maintaining their own. Today the cloud has reached a maturity where DevOps is for the most part handled by a set of tools. This makes tasks more automated and reliable. Meanwhile the embedded world lags behind. In part resin.io serves to…

July 09, 2015 / 1 min

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Eternal applications with pm2 and resin.io

Last week one of our users Robin Remuer asked a question in our community forum. Robin wanted his node app to run continuously, automatically restarting the process if it hits unexpected errors. And I see why running remote devices daemon to monitor your processes on those devices is essential, unless you're the type of guy who loves spending his Saturday watching logs scroll across a screen…

June 11, 2015 / 3 min