containers
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🔧 What has changed around edge build systems?
Reflecting on Embedded Linux/Edge build systems, several things have changed: ARM and RISC-V hardware is fast. Modern ARM boards and cloud instances (AWS Graviton, Hetzner CAX) build at speeds that make cross-compilation unnecessary for mo…
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🔀 The division between group and personal workflow
When thinking about developer workflows, tools, and resources, dividing them into two categories proves useful: personal and group. A group resource is something that multiple people use (or should use): SDKs, libraries, linters, formatters…
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📦 CDPD - Container Driven Product Development
When updating the Simple IoT documentation, the question arose - how to install mdbook and a few plugins? Of course pacman has part of what is needed. In the past cargo has been used, but that is slow and not a good fit for shared tools. Th…
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🔗 Integration, not isolation
In a recent discussion, the comment was made that containers are not always a good fit for edge/embedded devices, as they are designed for isolation (which is useful at times for cloud workloads), but with embedded, we want tight integratio…