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balena Blog
Company blog · resin.io/blog · on HN as alexandrossystemshardware
balena Blog is the company blog at resin.io, writing about systems and hardware. Since 2013, 30 different Hacker News readers have linked it 97 times, most often “Resin.io – Push Docker Containers to IoT Devices”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (13) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link resin.io's blog posts as references on running Docker containers on Raspberry Pi and embedded devices, such as ResinOS and Project Fin. Comments cite them without judging the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 13 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
balenaCloud: Manage fleets of IoT Linux devices with balena’s cloud platform. First 10 devices are free. Develop, deploy, and scale your IoT fleet.
Most-linked posts?
- /4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2015-05-28
- Resin.io – Push Docker Containers to IoT Devices3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-01-28
- Building ARM containers on any x86 machine, even DockerHub3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-12-25
- The Evolution of the Beast, a 144 Raspberry Pi Cluster, Continues3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-01-11
- ElectronJS with Raspberry Pi Made Easy as Pie2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-03-08
- Introducing Project Fin: A Raspbeery Pi CM Carrier Board for Fleet Owners2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-03-20
- Docker on Raspberry Pi2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-11-10
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-10-05
- Why Linux Containers Matter for the Internet of Things2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-10-30
- Good, Better, Beast: Taking Single Board Computer Clusters to the Next Level2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-12-09
What Hacker News says?
Resin.io | REMOTE | Linux engineers, Security engineers, Backend engineers, UI/Front-end engineers, Workflow engineers Resin.io allows IoT developers to push Linux Containers to embedded devices. See our demo of updating a drone in-flight at DockerCon [1]. We're very emphatic about our remote culture [2]. The resin.io team is composed of people passionate about quality code, well-thought out architecture, and great…
Comment linking /blog/how-we-run-a-remote-team/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2016)”Submitted Docker on Raspberry Pi as a story · 111 points
HN discussionResin.io | Seattle, WA / or west coast in general | Full-Time | REMOTE | Solutions Architect We're looking for someone who loves to tinker and make things and help get other people excited about doing the same. Junior candidates are fine if you've got some Linux or DevOps background and want to learn. It's a great small team and some really cool tech! https://resin.workable.com/jobs/204707 http://resin.io Feel free…
Comment linking /
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2016)”Submitted Why port Docker to the Raspberry Pi? as a story · 83 points
HN discussionResin.io | REMOTE | Linux engineers, Security engineers, Backend engineers, UI/Front-end engineers, Sales engineers Resin.io allows IoT developers to push Linux Containers to embedded devices. See our demo of updating a drone in-flight at DockerCon [1]. We're very emphatic about our remote culture [2]. The resin.io team is composed of people passionate about quality code, well-thought out architecture, and great use…
Comment linking /blog/how-we-run-a-remote-team/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2016)”Submitted Show HN: Resin.io – Push Updates to Linux Devices with Git and Docker as a story · 62 points
HN discussionResin.io | Data / Software / Finance Engineer | REMOTE | FULL-TIME | https://resin.io Resin.io is solving the myriad problems that come up when developers trying to manage software on thousands of intelligent devices in edge computing/iot/embedded scenarios. Our customers are working on everything from self-driving trucks to drones to sea turtles with cameras on them to smart buildings and smart everything else. We'…
Comment linking /
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2018)”Submitted You Can't Secure What You Cannot Update: Hardware Edition as a story · 49 points
HN discussionResin.io | REMOTE | Linux engineers, Security engineers, Backend engineers, UI/Front-end engineers, Sales engineers (for the last one only, bay area preferable) Resin.io allows IoT developers to push Linux Containers to embedded devices. See our latest demo at DockerCon [1]. We're very emphatic about our remote culture [2]. The resin.io team is composed of people passionate about quality code, well-thought out archi…
Comment linking /blog/how-we-run-a-remote-team/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2016)”Submitted The status and future of open source resin.io as a story · 30 points
HN discussionResin.io | REMOTE | Linux engineers, Security engineers, Backend engineers, UI/Front-end engineers, Sales engineers Resin.io allows IoT developers to push Linux Containers to embedded devices. See our demo of updating a drone in-flight at DockerCon [1]. We're very emphatic about our remote culture [2]. The resin.io team is composed of people passionate about quality code, well-thought out architecture, and great use…
Comment linking /blog/how-we-run-a-remote-team/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2016)”Submitted JavaScript, The Final Frontier as a story · 25 points
HN discussionI have not tried personally, but I think it should be possible. People already do crazy things with Docker :) For example: http://resin.io/docker-on-raspberry-pi/
Comment linking /docker-on-raspberry-pi/
on “Docker 0.7 runs on all Linux distributions”Submitted Resin.io – Push Docker Containers to IoT Devices as a story · 23 points
HN discussionhttp://resin.io is close to this, but also handles updates for you.
Comment linking /
on “Gokrazy: A pure-Go userland for Raspberry Pi 3 appliances”Submitted Happy 18th Birthday to JavaScript. A look at an unlikely past and bright future. as a story · 16 points
HN discussionOn our team at https://resin.io every engineer takes turns on customer support, something like a 5-day week with a 4-hour shift each day (and each day 4 of those shifts distributed across people), and repeat every few weeks. Sometimes it feels it's a big drain on people's time (for those weeks half your time is on support), but the end result is an amazing amount of learning across the entire team. What are the most…
Comment linking /
on “Can I Talk to that William Fellow? He was so Helpful (2009)”Submitted Announcing balena: a Moby-based container engine for IoT as a story · 12 points
HN discussionUse https://resin.io/ yo
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on “All United Flights Grounded Due to Mysterious Problem”Submitted Programming like an investor as a story · 7 points
HN discussionFor those interested in rolling their own RPi rootfs builds: - Spindle is a collection of scripts that's used to build the 'official' Raspbian images. It's hardly stripped-down as-is, and far from my favorite rootfs building strategy, but is a starting point: https://github.com/asb/spindle - Yocto / OpenEmbedded recipes are available for truly stripped-down build possibilities. Here's a random blog post specific to…
Comment linking /
on “Debian Jessie on Raspberry Pi 2”Submitted Docker builds on ARM servers: you’re not crazy, your builds really are 5x faster as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSome more notes and details from the blog: https://resin.io/blog/introducing-resinos/
Comment linking /blog/introducing-resinos/
on “ResinOS, run Docker containers on embedded devices”Submitted The Evolution of the Beast, a 144 Raspberry Pi Cluster, Continues as a story · 6 points
HN discussionIt can be: https://resin.io A Raspberry Pi is a surprisingly useful and cost effective device when it comes to IOT. Most industrially hardened devices of similar capacity cost a bit north of an order of magnitude more. There are really only a couple of things that would need to be addressed, a good weather-tight case that allowed for heat dissipation, decent storage (most microSD has a short lifespan), and a good 5v…
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on “Light Traffic”Submitted How we updated a drone while flying – and how you can too as a story · 5 points
HN discussionLet's hope it's an open protocol. I'm guessing this came out of Nest so they may want to make it interoperable. I'm a big fan of https://www.particle.io (previously Spark). http://nodered.org and https://resin.io are also good but not used them seriously.
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on “Google I/O 2015 – Keynote”Submitted Raspberry Pi is our era's IBM PC: From educational project to industry disruptor as a story · 4 points
HN discussion> Wish there was a less insidious company trying to get into all my devices. Sounds like a call for a shameless plug! We have recently released resinOS[1] as a stand-alone OS after a few years of development and production deployments on resin.io[2] connected devices. [1]: https://resinos.io [2]: https://resin.io
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on “Google launches developer preview of Android Things”Submitted Raspberry Pi Is the New IBM PC as a story · 4 points
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