Engineering at Axis

Read about the magic and people behind our technology.

Kubernetes Job Controller - Drawn image of a postman drowning in post

2026-02-04

How We Broke the Kubernetes Job Controller with 7,500 Crashlooping Pods 

Read about Anton's experience on how they broke Kubernetes Job Controller with 7500 Crashlooping Pods.
4 hands holding each other

2026-01-30

Precision Time Protocol (PTP) support in AXIS OS 

Read Joakim's latest story about time synchronization and the added support for Precision Time Protocol (PTP)
slim device software

2025-11-12

Slim Device Software with systemd Targets and nspawn: Axis at All Systems Go! 2025

Listen to our All Systems Go! 2025 presentation where we take a bottom-up approach to slicing our device software.
Frida Jacobsson shares a new approach to usability testing

2025-04-28

Usability Studies – Small Changes, Large Impact

Frida share how the Developer Experience team at Axis tried a new approach to our usability testing. Read the story behind how smoothies, four tasks, and a Hackathon helped us raise the bar.
a brown and white cow

2025-04-22

Cry over spilled milk no more – Axis cameras to the rescue

Read Joakim's story on how help save dozens of tons of milk with a simple color checker solution. No need to cry over spilled milk!
Hacking a Body Worn Camera To Run Doom!

2025-03-28

Hacking a Body Worn Camera To Run Doom! 

Can you make a Body Worn Camera to run Doom? AXIS W120 Body Worn Camera features a display, buttons and motion sensors, everything you need to take your handheld gaming to the next level! 
JSON Decoding

2025-03-21

Why You Should Not Trust JSON Decoding

Read about Anton's experience with JSON, why he thinks you shouldn't trust JSON decoding and what lessons he learned for the future.
Using AI as a colleague writing guidelines

2024-09-18

How we turned our writing guidelines into an AI colleague

We set out to create an AI tool that not only enforces our writing guidelines but also streamlines content creation.
The 20% project initiative

2024-07-12

The 20% Project initiative

Let Fredrik and Jonas illustrate how features from the 20% Project can deliver real value.
Frida Jacobsson sharing our journey of open-sourcing the Backstage plugin.

2024-04-11

Sharing our Backstage Plugins Journey: Lessons learned from open sourcing 

Read about why the Axis Backstage team decided to start our open source journey (and why we almost didn’t).