Blogs & Expert Updates
Business Blogs
Our latest blogs focus on sharing our expertise, when it comes to the importance of meeting standards in IoT, ensuring you're ready for every eventuality and allowing you to focus on your value-add engineering activities.
A New Dimension to Security Labeling for IoT Devices
We believe that device OEMs need to go a step further by implementing per-unit or per-node labelling. Read on for John Weil’s walk through, showing how FoundriesFactory achieves a deeper level of update tracking for our customers. We provide an easier route to compliance and beyond with an integrated platform that takes care of the basic but critical development infrastructure and frees up man-hours to focus on value-adding development work.
Software Bill-of-Materials: Every Software Developer’s Friend in Need When a CVE Problem Hits
Security breaches are a constant threat to connected devices and for this, among other reasons, device OEMs are well aware of the need for “SBOMs”. But there is no clear and common guiding standard, plus SBOM creation and management is just notoriously burdensome. What's the answer? John Weil reveals all in his blog.
Built-In And Ready To Use: The Benefits of an Integrated Docker System for Developing Containerized Software
At Foundries.io, we believe that containers should not be an add-on feature, but tightly integrated into the whole DevSecOps workflow. And also that Docker should be integrated within your development platform, not used as a plug-in, along with a built-in fully featured Docker registry. Our Principal Software Engineer, Andy Doan, explains why.
Technical Blogs
Your Full Featured, Lightweight Linux Distro, Courtesy of Flutter and FoundriesFactory
Following on from his recent blog that explored the pros and cons of the Android™ operating system, our Community Software Engineer Raul Muñoz puts Flutter to work. Raul guides developers through customizing the Linux microPlatform to utilize Flutter and creates a demo for Flutter Gallery. The result is a lightweight Linux distribution with OTA capabilities, device management, security and a pleasing multi-platform UI.
Bringing Docker Containers To IoT & Edge Devices, Part 2: Optimal and Reliable Storage Usage
Following on from his Part 1 blog focusing on container applications, Foundries.io Senior Software Engineer Mykhaylo Sul shares this new technical blog. This time, he shares his expertise around why we should care about storage. Read on to understand why and what needs to be done.