Stefan Wallin
As a Product Lead at Avassa, Stefan forms the roadmap and evolution of the product together with the engineering team.
Offline capabilities at the edge: 4 common design mistakes and how to overcome them
There are many reasons for running applications at the edge. Some of the ones we hear often include latency, bandwidth, and security requirements. But…
Read moreSeptember 2023: Feature releases & highlights
Web UI for host maintenance, image download The September releases contain: Let us start with an overview of the site and host maintenance features. Site maintenance The site menu top right now contains the following new functions: Reschedule service instances Rescheduling service instances is helpful,…
Read moreAugust 2023: Feature releases & highlights
UI for Device and GPU labels, Podman support The August releases contain these main features: Enhanced User Experience for Device and GPU labels We have now added forms support for editing label rules for devices like cameras and GPUs. You might know our “standard” labels,…
Read moreJune 2023: Feature releases & highlights
Versioned vaults Our release before the famous Swedish summer comes with versioned vaults: We have merged un-versioned and versioned vaults so that you now always get a versioned vault. This allows you to return to a previous value in your secrets store. Versioned vaults Previously…
Read moreTelemetry bus at the edge – Part 2: Examples
In this article series, we go deeper in describing the bus; why we built it, and what are the unique features. We illustrate this with some usage examples. In this second part, we’ll look at a few implementation examples. In the previous post in this…
Read moreTelemetry bus at the edge – Part 1: An overview
In order to solve relevant use cases for the edge, Avassa has a built-in edge native telemetry bus; “Volga”. We also sometimes refer to it as the Avassa pub/sub bus. In this article series, we go deeper in describing the bus; why we built it,…
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Containerized Edge Computing: The Next-Gen IoT Platforms Explained
IoT as a term and technology has existed for decades and the use of an IoT Platform is consequently widely spread. It has been…
Read moreExperimenting with autonomous self-healing edge sites
In this blog post, I’ll experiment a bit with autonomous self-healing edge sites and how they are crucial for a stellar edge infrastructure. Why are autonomous self-healing edge sites important? The motivations for edge projects are in many cases latency, privacy, network bandwidth optimization, and…
Read moreMay 2023: Feature releases & highlights
Host call-home visibility, offline sites documentation Host call home status and progress The modus operandi for adding hosts to your sites are the following: This will display the serial number of the motherboard. When Edge Enforcer starts, it will call home to the Control Tower…
Read moreApril 2023: Feature releases & highlights
Site metrics graphs, site proxies, custom alerts, MQTT bridge Releases: 23.4.0-23.5.0 April, come she will – When streams are ripe and swelled with rain May, she will stay – Resting in my arms again Paul Simon We see increasingly more industrial IoT use cases where…
Read moreMarch 2023: Feature releases & highlights
Port mapping, application metrics graphs The March releases contain the following main features: Port mapping An Avassa application is split into services which in turn has several containers. By default, services can not be reached from the outside. But you can configure ingress IP addresses…
Read moreFebruary 2023: Feature releases & highlights
Container exec in Web UI, NVIDIA GPU This feature releases & highlights report include: Run commands in a container from the Web UI The Avassa command line provides an efficient way of running commands directly in the container (”exec interactive”). This is shown below where…
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