The Core | December 2024 Edition
2024 – What a year. From launching two new macOS virtualization solutions (hello Orka Desktop and Orka Engine) to innovative Apple releases, it’s been an exciting year for MacStadium and the greater Apple developer community.?
We’re looking forward to everything in store for us in 2025. Happy Holidays and Happy New Year from the MacStadium team!
Upcoming Workbrew Webinar: Deploy, secure, and manage your Homebrew fleet at work ?????
Save the date for our upcoming webinar with Workbrew Founder and CEO John Britton as he shows how to standardize software delivery and patching across your Mac fleet while preserving the developer experience.?
January 23, 2025??
9am PST / 12pm EST / 5pm GMT?
Learn how Workbrew can work together with Homebrew for faster onboarding, quickly mitigated security vulnerabilities, and consistency in Homebrew usage across your teams and projects.?
Mac mini with M4 Benchmarks Part 2: Does the 14-core M4 Pro beat the 24-core M2 Ultra? ??
We know how the new M4 Mac minis stack up to the rest of the Macs, but what about M4 Pro??
We have the answer for the best Mac for maximum usage in your CI pipeline, and which model is the new recommended standard for running Orka Cluster nodes. Learn what M4 mini is best for your projects and how the M4 Pro can speed up your app development.?
ICYMI: Simple macOS virtualization is here with Orka Engine ???
Last month, we introduced Orka Engine – The ultimate macOS virtualization solution for iOS CI teams. Orka Engine enables automated VM creation and deployment across Apple silicon nodes, offering headless virtualization that integrates seamlessly into your custom workflows.?
? Fewer resource bottlenecks + faster workload execution?
? Maximize Apple silicon usage with virtualization you can automate?
? Flexible deployment, in our data center or yours?
Orka Engine is your go-to for efficient, scalable macOS virtualization. Available now on-prem at MacStadium, and coming soon to AWS.?
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Mac Open-Source Hosting Spotlight: Pi Stats ???
Manage Pi-holes like a pro with Pi Stats!?
Pi Stats simplifies managing Pi-holes on Raspberry Pi, offering quick controls via macOS and performance monitoring on iOS. They use MacStadium Mac infrastructure to run beta builds, tests, and Pi-hole instances with ease.?
Have you downloaded Orka Desktop yet? ???
A few months ago, we released Orka Desktop 3.0, our free forever local virtualization tool, with day-one support for macOS Sequoia.?
With Orka Desktop, you can:?
?? Test new and updated profiles on your own machine with MDM profile testing??
?? Easily share custom images with your team?
?? Create reproducible test environments for safe local testing??
Mac Open-Source Hosting Spotlight: Castle Game Engine ???
Get ready to take 3D and 2D game design to the next level with Castle Game Engine.?
Castle Game Engine is an open-source, cross-platform game engine that lets users create 3D and 2D games with a visual editor and modern Object Pascal programming. Castle Game Engine uses MacStadium to streamline testing on macOS for their game engine on consistent and reliable Mac infrastructure.?
We’re Hiring ?????? ????????
We are always looking for great people to join the MacStadium team. Apply here for one of the open positions or contact us at [email protected] and tell us why you want to be a part of the MacStadium Team!