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 →]
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 →]
As a Product Manager, customer stories and end-user anecdotes are the best input to appreciate the work you are doing and the value you provide to the world. It’s also great for understanding where the market is heading and what unsolved problems exists out there that needs to be addressed and solved next. To that [Read More →]
In previous posts in our Android Software Delivery blog series, we’ve discussed the high-level business and operational challenges of delivering and releasing Android products (Part 1 and Part 2). We’ve also discussed the challenges involved for device and chipset makers when building the software included in the Android-based stack and platform, here. This post is [Read More →]
Electric Cloud is sponsoring the 2013 Android Builders Summit, where we will launch some very exciting new solutions and offerings for Android device and chipset makers looking to accelerate their Android Software Delivery. One of the most exciting news that we will announce at the event is how the engineers at Electric Cloud have been [Read More →]
Right before Thanksgiving, prominent guests from a major telecommunications and mobile device maker visited Electric Cloud headquarters. As longtime trusted business partners we discussed challenges and opportunities in the market-place, and I just thought I should share some of the key general takeaways, captured in the below photo of our meeting notes on the whiteboard: [Read More →]
With the recent advancement in cloud technology, more and more R&D organizations are looking to optimize and improve their internal development environments by deploying Private Development and Build Clouds – Electric Cloud technology is playing a key part for many in making this happen. As organizations grow their cloud deployments, flexibility in scheduling of resources [Read More →]
