Category: thoughts
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Balena’s ‘why’
Why are balena pursuing the company mission? Why did we choose that as our mission? Why do we not have managers and encourage the team take as much leave as they need? What is balena’s ‘why’?
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Holiday gift suggestions for the hardware hackers in your life – 2021 edition
We asked the balena team to let us know whats top of their gift lists this year to give you some ideas of what to gift the techy people in your life this holiday season
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balenaCloud outages: their causes and what we’re doing to resolve them
This post outlines the causes of recent late 2021 balenacloud outages and what we’re doing to address this situation.
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How balenaSound inspired the audio block
Learn how we came up with the concept for the audio block by taking a look how to more efficiently maintain and improve balenaSound.
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Cellular + IoT isn’t as hard as you think
Add a stock cellular modem and SIM to a Raspberry Pi and get up and running with cellular networking in less than 30 minutes.
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Fixing the balenaFin high-temp issue, the DIY way
Learn how we diagnosed a heat issue with balenaFin and learn the DIY solution that our users can do to fix it.
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Root-cause analysis of the balenaFin high-temperature USB issue
We discovered an issue ith balenaFin v1.1 and want to inform our users about it- our recall- and how to remediate it.
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IoT professionals: define your role
If you’re like most IoT professionals- you’re something of a jack-of-all-trades. But what do you call yourself? What kind of group to you identify with?
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Are you buying the right devices for your IoT workloads?
Today’s IoT boards are powerful multi-core microcomputers with plenty of horsepower to spare. How do you decide which is best for your application?
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Why Linux containers matter for the Internet of Things
TL;DR: At resin.io [https://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…