Whenever I get asked about what Electric Cloud do, my simple elevator pitch is about how we help our customers and end-users develop and deliver their software products to the market much faster – Accelerating Software Delivery. If there is more interest from the person or audience I’m talking to, I bring up the Developer [Read More →]
Our PM David Rosen, recently wrote an excellent blog on Continuous Delivery (CD) and its applicability to embedded technologies. And it goes to the heart of what we hear often from our embedded prospects and customers – Can we really do CD? I understand the confusion and angst and would like to point the readers [Read More →]
A few weeks ago, we released our Android software delivery solution – which enables Android software teams build, test and release Android solutions more efficiently and faster. Since that release, we have had many discussions with Android development teams and our hypothesis of the need for such a “delivery solution” has been spot on Indeed, [Read More →]
I recently read an excellent note on http://www.zdnet.com/samsung-announces-one-new-handset-per-week-how-many-is-too-many-7000014815/ The net-net “wow” of this article can be summed up in this one sentence “Between January and the end of April, the South Korean manufacturer announced an average of one new smartphone per week.” Now, these devices are not simple to manufacture. They include high, mid range, and low end phones, tablets [Read More →]
As ecosystems such as the Yocto Project and OpenEmbedded becomes more popular for embedded device development, usage of the underlying bitbake build tool is increasing. Bitbake is a powerful tool used to manage, build and integrate complete operating system images, through package and distribution management activities such as fetching of source code, configuration, cross-compilation, installation. [Read More →]
There are a lot of general theories and principles available on the concept of Continuous Delivery – and how an ideal product development organization should strive to continuously deliver release-ready product to end-users on every change of software, hardware, configuration or data. There is also an abundance of available material and practical recommendations on how [Read More →]
The current webcomic on xkcd.com titled “Is It Worth The Time” has a fantastic table listing how long you can work on making a routine task more efficient before you’re spending more time than you will save, based on a 5-year payback plan. As a company spending most of our time and effort focusing on [Read More →]
Stuck in old legacy? Fighting a slow development process? Are complex dependencies between teams and product architecture prohibiting your ability to innovate? Struggling to adopt or scale Agile? A few weeks back I read “A Practical Approach to Large-Scale Agile Development: How HP Transformed LaserJet FutureSmart Firmware” by Gary Gruver, Mike Smith and Pat Fulghum. [Read More →]
Join our embedded webinar presented by VDC Tuesday, April 16th, at 9AM PDT/ 12PM EDT/ 4PM GMT Register now: http://www.electric-cloud.com/about/events-webinar-041613-electric.php We all know that Agile enables software organizations to continuously deliver working software faster to customers (internal or external). This helps software teams to not only deliver products faster but also in tune with the changing market needs. [Read More →]
Today, Electric Cloud is announcing the immediate availability of ElectricAccelerator 7.0. This release brings significant new innovations and performance enhancements to the market for anyone looking to optimize and accelerate their software build environment. We have publicly launched and talked about some of the new capabilities of this release already, back in February at the [Read More →]
