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 →]
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 →]
Today, Electric Cloud was selected as a 2013 Cool Vendor by Gartner. We strongly believe that the selection is a testament to the value that we provide to the Dev and Ops team in today’s fast paced application release process. Gartner has always considered automation as a key cornerstone of DevOps and Electric Cloud solutions automate [Read More →]
Is your software development team mired in thousands of hours building, fixing, and running engineering processes? Like many of your peer organizations, it’s a fact that engineers hired to design, develop and create innovative software products spend a good chunk of their time developing supporting tools to enable them to do their jobs. Recently, Brocade, [Read More →]
This past December, I joined Electric Cloud as CEO after many years in the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) space at Serena Software, Skytap, HP/Mercury Interactive and IBM/Rational Software. I made the decision to join Electric Cloud because it has an exceptional team, blue-chip install base and unique, patented technology for automating and accelerating the software [Read More →]
As we talk with device vendors and their challenges in releasing high quality products to market timely, the need to address faster and accurate software builds stands out as one of the primary challenges everyone is trying to solve on a daily basis. Build times, whether, individual developer builds, integration or release builds, take too [Read More →]
