Balena.io Blog

A Yearful of balenaEngine Progress

To many of you, balenaEngine is an invisible component hidden somewhere in the balena stack. If you adhere to the standard balena workflows, you don’t even need to deal directly with it: balenaEngine will just do its job–quietly and invisibly.

May 26, 2023 / 7 min

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Refactoring Our Mission Statement

In this blog post we revisit our mission statement to better reflect our commitment to empowering individuals and businesses to leverage technology in addressing real-world challenges.

May 17, 2023 / 3 min

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Use the MING stack to accelerate your IoT application development

In this blog post we describe how the MING (MQTT Mosquitto, InfluxDB, Node-Red and Grafana) stack can enable the next generation of IoT Application developers to be more productive.

May 15, 2023 / 11 min

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Using NVIDIA Jetson NGC containers on balenaOS

Leverage pre-built containers from NVIDIA's NGC Catalog and deploy them successfully on balenaOS.

May 05, 2023 / 15 min

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How Dyson uses balena for air quality monitoring

We think that cutting-edge technologies should be affordable and accessible and love knowing that we are enabling our customers to have a positive impact on the world around them.

April 24, 2023 / 4 min

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Scale your Industrial deployment with IIoT Edge Gateways Managed by HiveMQ and balena

In this blog post we describe a reference architecture for deploying an Industrial IoT edge gateway running balena and hiveMQ in multiple plant floors distributed all around the world.

April 18, 2023 / 15 min

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Replace Google IoT Core with ClearBlade

In this blog post we describe a reference architecture for deploying an Industrial IoT edge gateway running balena, hiveMQ and the MING stack.

April 06, 2023 / 5 min

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Industrial IoT Edge Gateway reference architecture using MING with HiveMQ and balena

In this blog post we describe a reference architecture for deploying an Industrial IoT edge gateway running balena, hiveMQ and the MING stack.

March 30, 2023 / 14 min

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Recent organisational changes at balena

In this blog post we announce the recent organisation changes at balena

March 21, 2023 / 3 min

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Meet balena at the Embedded World 2023

In this blog post we announce that balena is attending the Embedded World 2023 conference.

March 13, 2023 / 1 min

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Maximizing Resources in the Chip Shortage: How balenaOS Testing went Virtual

Chip shortage has been the perfect storm that forced industries to adapt or break down. This is the story of the problems we faced and how we scaled balenaOS support for many new device types even in peak supply chain disruption.

March 07, 2023 / 7 min

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How Carbon Co-op is reducing home carbon emissions with balena

We think that cutting-edge technologies should be affordable and accessible and love knowing that we are enabling our customers to have a positive impact on the world around them.

March 07, 2023 / 2 min

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Creating an IoT marketplace and launching Fleets for Good

Today we’re launching a big update to balenaHub, creating a marketplace to find and share resources for IoT building products and services. Alongside, we’re launching Fleets for Good (formerly open fleets), our way of sharing our technology to enable users who want to use our platform for a good cause.

March 01, 2023 / 5 min

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GCP IoT Core retires and how parts of your IoT stack are affected

In this blog post we examine the GCP IoT Core, how it's retirement may affect your IoT stack and how a migration to balenaCloud can help out!

February 24, 2023 / 7 min

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From PR to Release; OS Testing at balena

In this blog post we will give a high level rundown of the tools and pipeline that we’ve developed to automate the testing of balenaOS!

February 10, 2023 / 10 min

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No Hardware? Virtualize balenaOS devices on MacOS!

This blog post shows you how to set up a virtual balenaOS aarch64 device on MacOS using UTM. It shows you how to configure the virtual machine, and how to join your device to an existing balenaCloud Fleet.

February 09, 2023 / 5 min

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