Technical Blogs and Articles by Konsulko Group Engineers

THE BLACK MAGIC OF SCOPING THE EFFORT IN SOFTWARE PROJECTS

The black magic of scoping the effort in software projects

With multiple sources for missed estimates, there's no precise formula to properly scope the effort, but here are a few notes developers may find useful.
July 31, 2021/by Pete Popov
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Building Platforms with Secure Over-the-Air Updating

To secure OTA, start with a secure platform. This methodology ensures straight-forward and predictable development, and secure OTA updating on your device.
April 13, 2021/by Konsulko Group
2020 THE YEAR IN REVIEW

CEO Pete Popov looks back on 2020

As we approach the end of December, it’s time to review a year that we will certainly remember for the rest of our lives. Even at the start of 2020, we knew this year would be different.
December 18, 2020/by Pete Popov
Building a DIY SOHO router 18 MONTHS LATER

Building a DIY SOHO router, 18 months later

It’s been a year since my last post on this DIY SOHO router project, and 18 months since I posted the article series itself. So it’s worth doing a check-in.
November 12, 2020/by Tom Rini
USING RUST WITH YOCTO PROJECT

Using Rust with Yocto Project

Simple example applications written in Rust. How to compile and run these applications natively on Linux. How to creatte recipes for these applications.
November 5, 2020/by Konsulko Group
How Mender works

How Mender works

Software Update solutions are a key part of our services offering. For open source over-the-air updates, we often we recommend and work with mender.io. Here's a brief introduction to how it works.
October 23, 2020/by Tom Rini
Getting Started with RAUC on Raspberry Pi

Getting Started with RAUC on Raspberry Pi

RAUC is secure, robust, flexible open source software for A/B updates of Embedded Linux devices, compatible with Yocto Project/OpenEmbedded, Buildroot, PTXdist.
August 18, 2020/by Leon Anavi
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Helping Yocto Project work with Python 3

The Yocto Project uses OpenEmbedded and relies on layer meta-python from meta-openembedded to deliver Python 3 packages. A closer look at python3-protobuf.
June 26, 2020/by Leon Anavi