10 posts authored by “Zach Walchuk”

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Bitreactive: decentralized sensor management with balena.io

Bitreactive provides assisted living technology solutions for nursing homes and home care. They specialize in decentralized sensor management and edge analytics built around the Continua Design Guidelines, an implementation framework for personal connected devices. Bitreactive's solutions, such as the BALT personal hub, focus primarily on bed monitoring, both for institutions and remote homes…

June 27, 2018 / 1 min

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Evolve your fleet: manage multiple device types in one application

When it comes to managing a fleet of remote devices, we know there are many points of friction. Our goal at resin.io is to eliminate as many of these as we can, and we've put a lot of work into making deployments across device types as similar as possible. By running your application code in a container, we're able to keep it mostly isolated from the nitty-gritty hardware detail. This means, with…

June 12, 2018 / 2 min

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Constructing calls to the balena API

At the heart of the balena platform sits the API. Not only does the API facilitate communication between our backend services, it also serves as the primary interface for external applications. The API acts as a source of truth across services, devices, and fleets, and it powers our UI, CLI, and SDKs. We recently updated our API documentation, giving you a better look at the information that is…

June 01, 2018 / 4 min

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Raspberry Pi 3 B+ now supported on resin.io!

Earlier this month, the Raspberry Pi Foundation released the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+, a faster, more capable model of their incredibly popular Raspberry Pi 3. The board includes a number of features we know our users will appreciate, and we're happy to say it's now officially supported on the resin.io platform! We've just released resinOS v2.12.5 for the Raspberry Pi 3 device type, which includes…

March 29, 2018 / 1 min

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Filters and tags: a fleet management primer for resin.io

The resin.io platform is designed to make it as easy as possible to develop, update and monitor code on remote devices, whether your fleet contains one device or thousands. Those with growing fleets know that as the size of the fleet increases, the more difficult it becomes to organize and sort your devices and to find specific devices as needed. To address this, we’ve added two incredibly useful…

January 26, 2018 / 5 min

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Top 6 tips for troubleshooting your host OS with resin.io

We recently released a feature that gives you a lot more visibility into your remote devices running on resin.io. For those with resinOS versions 2.7.5 and above, it is now possible to SSH into the host OS. This can be done directly from the dashboard or through the CLI. Host OS SSH access gives you a handful of tools that can help you gather more information about potential issues. To help you…

January 16, 2018 / 4 min

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Why Linux containers matter for the Internet of Things

TL;DR: At resin.io, we believe Linux containers are the first practical virtualization technology for the embedded world, enabling isolated application failures, efficient updates, and a flexible yet familiar workflow. By adding binary deltas, a minimal container engine, support for a wide variety of devices, and resiliency to power and network failures, we've made Docker containers an ideal…

October 16, 2017 / 7 min

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Docker builds on ARM servers: you’re not crazy, your builds really are 5x faster

Last week, we announced the arrival of Docker's multi-stage build feature to the resin.io image builder. The main benefit? Much smaller images for faster download times. This week, we're focused on build speed. We can now build your container images on bare metal ARM servers, increasing build speed by up to five times—with the potential for much bigger increases. As resin.io users know, part of…

August 02, 2017 / 4 min

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Multi-stage Docker builds for tiny IoT images

Resin.io makes heavy use of Docker containers. Containers make it easy to ship applications with a standard list of parts and instructions, and by bringing this approach to connected devices we greatly simplify the fleet management process. Docker has many features that make it suitable for IoT applications, but there's one recent release that has us particularly excited: with Docker’s new multi…

July 19, 2017 / 3 min

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Move to the edge with Azure IoT and resin.io

The benefits of running services on the edge—fast response times, low bandwidth, the ability to work offline—make this approach an attractive alternative to a fully cloud-based model. But there are some things to think about before moving to the edge: How do you keep the development process simple, so you don't have to rewrite your code for devices with different operating systems or architectures…

July 08, 2017 / 4 min