Blogs & Expert Updates
Business Blogs
Our focus this newsletter is on business level insights, from the choices made in embedded development, through to how costs are accounted for, and whether the industry needs a name change!
FoundriesFactory - Because No One Else Cares
The "Twelve-Factor App" is a widely known and well needed resource in the Cloud world for bringing products to market. But what about embedded? This kind of guidance hasn't existed to help navigate through the journey of development, deployment and maintenance. As a result, security is all too often underplayed or at worst completely bypassed. Our Principal Software Engineer, Andy Doan, explains how the Foundries.io team experienced this pain first hand and how FoundriesFactory changes everything.
Android is not a Bed of Roses When Talking About Embedded Development
Our community Software Engineer Raul Muñoz acknowledges the complexity and cost of developing and maintaining an operating system for embedded devices. Is Android™ the right choice for products other than smartphones and tablets? Or does it add further burden and lack in ongoing support?
The Cost of Platform Software Maintenance: a Stealth Tax on Device Manufacturers?
Linux® platform maintenance is important work. But it's also complex and expensive work. It’s time consuming and requires advanced technical knowledge and skills. Yet despite being resource intensive, it adds no value to a product that a customer would pay for. It’s not work that makes the product faster or more intuitive, or more aware of its environment. All it does is keep the product viable.
Given this, you might expect device manufacturers to ruthlessly adopt the most efficient and cheapest possible way of keeping their operating software platform maintained. Most of them don’t. John Weil, CMO at Foundries.io, explains why.
The IoT Industry is Broken
As previewed in his welcome note at the top of the newsletter, our Chairman Ian Drew gives his insight to the IoT landscape, what's wrong with the way the industry is operating, and why he'd even like to do away with the term "IoT".
