Barcelona’s 2nd Mini-Meet: Bridging the gap between balena and the community
The second balena mini-meet recently took center stage in the city of Barcelona. The event served as a platform not only for meeting in person and to work but also for sharing knowledge, trends and...
View ArticleBalena Update
And just like that, in a blink of an eye, 8 months have passed and I’m only now sitting down to write an update on how balena is doing. It was never my intention to wait this long, but as co-CEO, I’ve...
View ArticleMeet Balena at the Open Source Summit Japan 2023
It’s finally time for Open Source Summit Japan 2023. Open Source Summit Japan is the leading conference in Japan organized by The Linux Foundation. It aims to connect the open-source ecosystem under...
View ArticleBalena supports NXP i.MX9, the Compulab UCM-iMX93
In the landscape of edge computing, NXP’s i.MX series has long been a name synonymous with innovation and performance. The latest addition to this illustrious lineup, the i.MX9, is poised to redefine...
View ArticleIntroducing the New Era of Balena Support
We are pleased to announce that our new and improved balena support system will go live during the weekend of 6th/7th January 2024. Our aim is to increase control and flexibility, offering an even...
View ArticleBalena Summit 2024
What is a Summit? Balena is a fully remote, distributed team, and has always been so. When most of the world was leaving offices and working out how to do remote meetings in 2020, balena was business...
View ArticleBalena’s ‘why’
Very few people or companies can clearly articulate WHY they do WHAT they do. By WHY I mean your purpose, cause or belief – WHY does your company exist? WHY do you get out of bed every morning? And...
View ArticleIs The Raspberry Pi 5 on balena Your Next Digital Signage Platform?
The Raspberry Pi series of single board computers have been popular for digital signage applications since they were introduced over a decade ago. Digital signage includes LCD flat panel displays for...
View ArticleIntentional Work Framework – How we get stuff done at balena
We like to think from first principles and are quite resistant to using ready-made solutions unless we deeply understand the rationale. That has always been what makes balena special and why the team...
View ArticleAnnouncing balenaCloud support for the Seeed reComputer J4012 with NVIDIA...
The last few years have held some exciting announcements from NVIDIA. Their Jetson line is widely considered one of the most powerful edge AI solutions available in the market today. Their latest...
View ArticleTakeaways from the Raspberry Pi 5 and balena Webinar
Last week in our continuing series of balena webinars, we welcomed Simon Burgess and James Hughes of Raspberry Pi. They fielded questions from our attendees regarding transitioning from the Raspberry...
View ArticleHow to expose your device with a custom URL using Cloudflare Tunnels
If you need to expose a service running on a balenaCloud device to a public URL, this guide is for you. While balenaCloud offers a built-in service —public device URL— that’s great for development, it...
View ArticleIntroducing Enterprise Single Sign-on (SSO) for balenaCloud
As balenaCloud has become more indispensable to enterprise customers over the last few years, we’ve received multiple requests to provide a more enterprise user management system. Today we’re pleased...
View ArticleIntroducing balenaOS 6
We recently released balenaOS version 6, so in this post we’ll take a look at what has changed from version 5.x. Balena uses semantic versioning for our OS releases, therefore in this case the jump...
View ArticleCustom Device Support or… the Essentials for running balenaOS on your hardware
On July 24th, balena’s Alan Boris and Kenna Smith presented a webinar that explored hardware compatibility options for balenaOS as well as details about hardware selection for successful IoT projects....
View ArticleIntroducing balena Support For The NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin 64 And JetPack 6
As the balena platform sees more and more use in edge AI applications, we continue to add compatibility for the latest AI-focused hardware and software. With that in mind, we’re pleased to announce...
View ArticleEnhancing Our Billing Infrastructure: balena’s Move to Stripe
Why Stripe? Enhanced Trust and Security Stripe is a widely recognized and trusted name in online payments. By partnering with Stripe, we’re providing our customers with an added layer of confidence in...
View ArticleFleet load times and device statuses massively improved
As part of our ongoing efforts to improve the scalability of balenaCloud dashboard, fleet rendering for users managing tens of thousands of devices or more is now approximately 30 times faster. This...
View ArticleEtcherPro has reached end of life (Etcher app is not affected)
EtcherPro was born largely out of our customers’ (and our own) need to flash OS images onto multiple SD cards when adding devices to applications on balenaCloud. Part of our mission is to reduce...
View ArticleBalena API v7: New Features, Breaking Changes and Migration Guide
From more detailed device status reporting to streamlined resource management, balena API v7 represents our mission to reduce friction for fleet owners. In this blog post, we will provide a concise...
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