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February 7, 2020
Orka Plugins Rundown: Part 2

These three plugins are the most recent additions to Orka, and have all been greeted warmly by folks who are using them already. Check out how Orka integrates with your CI pipeline (part 2).

January 31, 2020
Orka Plugins Rundown: Part 1

With Orka’s simple CLI and our growing library of plugins and integrations, ease-of-use is central to our targeted user experience. In short, Orka is a tool for everyone.

January 28, 2020
How to Connect Storage for Ephemeral Build Testing

Leveraging ephemeral builds as part of your CI pipeline greatly improves consistency, scalability, and ease of updating. In this post, learn how to connect your build server to shared storage.

January 22, 2020
2019 Mac Pros at MacStadium

The 2019 Mac Pros have arrived and our benchmarking has started! For this first round of benchmarking, we used NodeJS and Wikipedia’s iOS build. Check out the results we got when the new Pro was put up against its earlier counterparts.

January 20, 2020
YAML for the People: A Human Readable Primer

If you haven’t yet heard much about YAML, it – very much like JSON or XML – is just a way of representing structured data. Learn more in this beginner's guide.

December 17, 2019
MacStadium Achieves ISO/IEC 27018 Certification for Cloud Privacy

MacStadium adds ISO 27018 certification, demonstrating the company’s continued commitment to security and privacy

December 16, 2019
Automate Your CI With These 3 Powerful Tools in 2020

Is CI automation on your team's wishlist for 2020? Check out this piece for three must-have tools before getting started.

December 10, 2019
There's a New Mac Pro Coming to MacStadium

Announced earlier this year during WWDC, the new Mac Pro is officially available to order today. As with every new release, MacStadium was first in line to get our hands on the latest and greatest Apple hardware, and can't wait to see how Orka performs on this new Mac.

December 2, 2019
Put Your Things Away with MacStadium’s Five Storage Options

With one or more of our five storage solutions your team will be ready and able to focus on the work at hand. We break them down in this piece.

November 18, 2019
Try Orka with a Playground Environment

Try Orka hands-on! Get access to a free Orka demo environment for a two-hour window -- spin up VMs, explore the Orka CLI, try the Jenkins plugin, and more.

November 11, 2019
Best VM Configurations for Your Specific Use Case

In this piece we highlight a few VM configuration settings that you may be overlooking. To optimize performance, these are things you want to take a look at.

November 7, 2019
Native vs. React Native for iOS: A Smorgasbord for Thought

A collection of our favorite resources based on specific use cases to help you make a well informed choice as to which route to take in the creation of your next application.

November 7, 2019
Selecting a Scalable CI Pipeline for macOS

Your company is growing and there are many factors contributing to the need for a more efficient CI infrastructure. Learn how MacStadium can aid in the transition to an infrastructure that can support a product at scale.

October 18, 2019
Reports of Xcode 11 building slow: 50% increase in build times?

We recently had a call with a customer who has been experiencing slow run-times after moving to Xcode 11. Have you experienced similar issues? We want to know!

October 7, 2019
Catalina Released...and Live on Orka!

Catalina was officially released today, and within a matter of hours, the Orka team had made a Catalina ISO available to our customers. We encourage all of our current Orka customers to pull the new ISO and give Catalina a try.