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Today we remember the U.S. service members who gave their lives in service of this country. To the families who carry that loss: we honor them with you.

Mac CI/CD shouldn't mean waiting 20 minutes for a VM to provision. Tomorrow: live Orka demo. See what it looks like to actually control the stack. Register: bit.ly/4nNShVq

AI speeds up writing code. It doesn't automatically speed up delivering it. AI increases code volume. More PRs, more commits, more CI runs. If your Mac build infrastructure was sized for pre-AI velocity, it's now undersized. Build queues get longer. Wait times go up. Infrastructure that was already too slow doesn't improve when you ship more code. That's what Orka is built for: elastic Mac VMs that provision in seconds and don't carry state between runs.

Glovo migrated iOS CI from a managed CIaaS provider to Orka. Jenkins plugin, a few lines of config, and the pipeline was running. "From the developers' point of view, nothing really changed." What did change: 30% faster builds at half node capacity. Then 58% faster after moving to faster Apple silicon hardware. Full case study: bit.ly/4fijGfF

As of April 28, your CI pipeline can't submit to the App Store without Xcode 26. With Orka, your team owns the images. You decide when they update. No vendor queue. No support tickets. No risk to App Store submissions.

Still shipping physical MacBooks to offshore developers? If you're already on Citrix, Mac virtual desktops can live inside the same environment your team manages today. Live demo: Wednesday May 6, 11am ET. bit.ly/4uNl3YD

Announcing MacStadium VDI. Mac virtual desktops provisioned from a golden image in minutes (not hours or days). Up to 2 VMs per physical Mac. Integrates with Citrix. Basically, Mac VDI that actually works like VDI. go.macstadium.com/macstadium-vdi

Great first day at #MacADUK! If you're in Brighton, stop by and see the team tomorrow to learn how MacStadium can help you streamline #MacOps in your enterprise. From DevOps to VDI to AI, we have a solution powered by Apple silicon.

We're live at #MacADUK in 1 hour — Demo Stage, Studio Theatre — showing how @MacStadium turned bare metal into a full Mac VDI platform. Golden image provisioning in minutes. At scale. 📅 Today | 4:30–5:10 PM #MacVirtualization #AppleIT #VDI

Physical Macs don't scale. Provisioning is slow. Every device is a snowflake. At MacADUK next week we'll show you how you can provision Mac desktops from golden images in minutes, manage them centrally, and run Mac VDI the way Windows VDI already works. 🗓️ April 21 | ⏰️ 4:30 PM | 💻️ Demo Stage

Running Mac CI on Tart+Orchard and wondering what's next? Orka has been the enterprise Mac CI platform since before Tart existed. Docs are a good place to start. docs.macstadium.com/orka

Not all macOS remote desktop tools are built for the same buyer. Citrix is better for enterprise teams. Parsec works well for creative teams that need speed. NoMachine is for teams that prefer affordable, self-hosting. Read our full breakdown: bit.ly/4vtCWMT

The Cirrus Labs team is joining OpenAI. They built Tart+Orchard. Big news for Mac CI teams who depend on it. We wrote up what we think it means: bit.ly/3O76245

Security reviews are where a lot of tools get stuck. The question isn't whether Orka is secure. It's whether you can prove it to your InfoSec team. Orka is built for that conversation: role-based access control with namespace isolation, full audit logs, SSO/SAML, and corporate identity integration out of the box. That's not a checklist item. It's the difference between passing a security review and getting blocked by one. trust.macstadium.com

Life360 has 79 million monthly active users. Their iOS engineering team nearly doubled in 4 years. Their Orka workload? It tripled. They didn't need more people managing infrastructure. They needed infrastructure that scaled with them. Read the full story. Link in the comments.

The Orka GitHub Actions integration just got smarter. v1.1.11 switches VM lifecycle management from SSH-driven to event-driven. Dropped SSH connection? Your job keeps running. Job finishes? The VM cleans itself up. Orphaned VMs? Auto-deleted within 10 minutes. Less babysitting. More shipping. bit.ly/4siGRtk

50 years of Apple. They built the hardware, the OS, and the chip architecture that now dominates mobile. Billions of people build, work, and create on what they made. We make sure enterprises can do it at scale. Here's to 50 more. #Apple50

If your team is managing Mac CI/CD at scale, Orka was built specifically for you. Live demo coming up — we'll walk through Kubernetes-native scheduling, horizontal autoscaling, and automated VM lifecycle management for 100+ VM environments. No fluff. Just how it works. 🗓️ Thursday at 11am EST — grab a spot: bit.ly/40NNTuT

M4 Mac minis are backordered / waitlisted worldwide. But if you're running DevOps workloads — our M2.XL matches M4 Pro performance for CI/CD. Same build times. Available now. Don't wait. bit.ly/4lJ0XLv