Takeaways from Ethereum’s DevCon IV Talks
Ethereum DevCon4 ended recently, after 4 full and intense days, with tens of talks, workshops and satellite events, gathering more than 5.000 attendees. Here are my a few of my takeaways from the event.
Blockchain – Digital Immutability without Cloud Providers
After the ICO hype has slowly faded, attention may move back to actual applications that can benefit from blockchain infrastructure. Everybody knows about payments and tokens but what are some simple use cases where a blockchain can help solve…
The challenge of deploying updates to IoT infrastructure projects
In the previous two articles in this series about IoT infrastructure development, we examined the challenges of choosing and securing a framework. In this entry, we’ll take a look at some of the considerations around rolling out updates to the…
Running an IoT platform in production with Kubernetes
The Internet of Things has been a focus of ours over the past few years and an area we’ve developed a lot of expertise in. Our current offering consists of a fully fledged end to end IoT platform that empowers…
Three key considerations in securing an IoT infrastructure framework
We closed the previous article about choosing a framework for IoT infrastructure with some indications of some of the requisite security considerations for this type of project. This time we’ll examine three specific aspects of IoT infrastructure security. It’s worth…
Why chatbots cannot learn directly from human conversations
From the series: A practical approach between myth and reality In the previous article, we presented two ways of categorizing conversational agents — more widely known as chatbots — along with their advantages, limitations and use case scenarios. In the…
C and Functional Safety in the automotive industry, part 3: Mind your language
If developers occasionally feel hamstrung by MISRA’s restrictions, those (thankfully) rare incidents of catastrophic embedded software failure in the news put this level of circumspection back into context. In the previous posts we took a look at the rise of…
C and Functional Safety in the automotive industry, part 2: The usual suspects
In the last post, we recapped the emergence of C as the dominant programming language for embedded automotive systems, from its roots in Unix in the early 1970s up to gathering criticism around its relative eccentricities as the platform matured….
Functional Safety in the automotive industry, part 1: The rise of C
In the 1980s electronically controlled ignition and fuel injection systems were the first major embedded systems deployed for the automotive industry, as ignition and injection analogue units started to be progressively replaced by the more controllable digital alternatives facilitated by…
Step behind the scenes of #LifeAtTremend (part II)
You’ve already read a little bit about what really makes us tick and click as a team, in the first part of the article. As we’ve promised, here comes the second part of our behind the scenes series!
Choosing a framework for IoT infrastructure
One of the most rewarding aspects of developing innovative IoT systems at scale is the opportunity to define the process and make sense of a rapidly changing marketplace where no single methodology, platform or approach dominates yet.
Step behind the scenes of #LifeAtTremend (part I)
We write code — and we’re really good at it. But there’s so much more than meets the eye behind the scenes. We are a team of professional, creative and analytical minds, who just happen to wear many other hats…
The beauties and the beasts in Stack Overflow survey 2018
This year, Stack Overflow asked 100,000 developers worldwide how they feel about the tools they use and about their working environment. The 2018 survey also covered some new topics ranging from artificial intelligence to ethics in coding.
Chatbots categories and their limitations
Especially over the last few years, many businesses have been considering the idea of building or acquiring their own AI-enabled conversational agent. However, despite the interest, research and effort that are put in, there are still just a handful of successful attempts.
The power of word embeddings
Natural language processing is a messy and complicated affair but modern advanced techniques are offering increasingly impressive results. Word embeddings are a modern machine learning technique that has taken the natural language processing world by storm.