Why IoT developers need access to better tools [Q&A]

Internet of things devices pose a number of challenges for developers, not least security issues and having to work with limited hardware capability. We talked to François Baldassari of connected device specialist Memfault to find out why it may be better if IoT device developers and engineers were to have the kinds of DevOps tools that only software teams have traditionally had access to. BN: How are development constraints different in software and hardware development, and what accounts for the gap in tooling? FB: Embedded software development is constrained in every dimension: power, CPU cycles, memory, storage, and bandwidth. Furthermore,… [Continue Reading]