As mentioned in the first part of this article, An Introduction to Distributed Builds and Remote Execution, there is no single solution to the problem of building software in a distributed manner. This description will focus on a solution based on the …
Part of creating software involves translating source code into instructions that can be executed by hardware and packaging the results in a way that can be consumed by users. That process is known as building (although colloquially it sometimes can be …
Installing Linux on most PCs is easy — you pop in a DVD or a USB stick, click through the install process, and you’re most of the way there. When it comes to more specialised …
You might have heard the term ‘FPGA’ thrown around every now and again. In several areas of the tech industry their use is growing -- particularly in automotive, aerospace, and medical applications.
To understand why they are becoming so popular we must go back to what they are …
Debian 10 is named after the dachshund from Toy Story, Buster.Debian is over 20 years old now, and the venerable distro is keeping the ball rolling by releasing its latest version, 10.0 (Buster), last Saturday.
As the oldest surviving and purely community-based Linux distribution, Debian has become incredibly …
Free/Libre Open Source Software (F/LOSS) projects have always been community-driven affairs. Many of the tools that we use at Codethink are the result of years of passionate work put in by dedicated developers. They use their free time to provide the world with useful, thoughtful and creative software …
It is nearing the end of pride month, and over the course of June, here at Codethink we wanted to explore the question of inclusivity in the open source community. When we first wrote this article, we noted that the Wikipedia page on the matter was sparse, and we were …
Codethink partnered with York Instruments on a project to develop a new Magnetoencephalogram (MEG) scanner to replace their existing apparatus. This is a neuroimaging device which maps brain activity by recording magnetic fields which are produced by naturally occurring electrical currents in the brain.
The problem at the time was …
Here at Codethink we've recently been putting some energy into enhancing our onboarding process that we have in place for all new starters at the company. As we grow steadily in size, it's important we have a well defined approach to welcoming new employees into the company and introducing them …
Open source software is at the heart Codethink.
Codethink staff can often be found in attendance at open source conferences while Codethink, as a company, supports events in Europe and internationally each year. On a more day to day basis, Codethink engineers are regularly contributing to open source projects. Adam …
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GitOps is increasingly popular in the cloud-native world, allowing developers to deliver software to production using their native tooling—a pull request in Git. The underlying principle is that of infrastructure as code. Namely, any change in operations can be affected by a …
As a result of collaborative research with MIT, Codethink announces a new open source project AV-STPA, to analyse and document safety requirements for autonomous vehicles by applying System-Theoretic Process Analysis.
On our continuing journey to understand the implications of safety and security risk management for complex software-intensive systems, Codethink has …
For a project with one of our larger clients, Codethink engineers had been using a 3rd party debugging board, purchased by the customer. Engineers found that the debug board features were quite limited. Due to the delicate design of the board, the lead time for production was long and as …
The Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP), a Linux Foundation Initiative, is attracting the attention of well known stakeholders in the Industrial Grade space.
The long term project goal is to create an Open Source base layer for industrial grade systems collaboratively to enable the creation of reusable building blocks that meet …
Over the course of three months and two PCB revisions, Codethink developed a USB 3 switch (See Image) in order to address issues regarding software deployment and continuous integration faced by one of our major customers.
The aim was to deliver a computer-controlled, automated deployment pipeline for testing software on …
Codethink has been collaborating with British Cycling technical staff to develop an innovative telematics system to measure performance of their athletes in training for competitive events. This system seeks to improve the recording and analysis of raw data and will aid training progress of British Cycling in preparation for the …
Systems are becoming more complex than ever before. This now allows us to accomplish tasks that once seemed impossible. With this increase in complexity from systems, there is a need for safety models that can keep up.
STAMP (System-Theoretic Accident Model and Processes) is an accident and causality model based …
The theme of International Women’s Day 2019 is ‘Balance for Better’. It is reported that 17% of those working in technology sector in the UK are female, an imbalance that has drawn a lot of attention. For International Women’s Day this year, I talked to a few of …
If you've ever looked into remote build caching and execution and read about it on Bazel's related documentation page, you may have wondered what BuildGrid is and why it is advertised there as a remote execution implementation. BuildGrid is a compile farm system that implements a remote build execution service …
Over the course of the last few months, Codethink have conducted an investigation into whether or not Linux systems can be configured to be deterministic, so that performance over time is made to be more predictable and overall improved by tweaking the kernel in …
I attended GUADEC 2018, and really enjoyed it, and I feel that I got a lot out of it.
The talks were recorded and they should be put online some time soon, I think. They need volunteers to do some video editing first though.
There is an issue for doing …
Many embedded/automotive vendors are recommending that electronic control unit (ECU) consolidation can be best achieved by adopting an architecture with a hypervisor. The idea is to isolate functions into guest operating system virtual machines and restrict access to sensitive resources. So examples of the consolidated architecture look something like …
Traditionally ELCE has been an important annual event for Codethink. This year was no exception. ELCE 2017 was not only a great technical event but...
LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The Institute for Strategy, Resilience & Security (ISRS) at University College London (UCL) in association with software developer Codethink Ltd, today announced the release of a new white paper entitled Towards Trustable Software – A Systematic Approach To Establishing Trust In Software. Paul Sherwood, CEO of Codethink will introduce …
FLOSS event offerings have exploded in the last few years. You can find everything from very elite, invitation-only pricey events to small, local meetings that are open to everybody...
An introduction to Error Correction, Hamming Codes, Reed-Solomon, and Locally Repairable Codes
Tristan explains his new initative BuildStream and what it could mean for GNOME in 2017.
A look at open source for Civil Infrastructure, and why we're a founding member of CIP.
This is a quick email detailing what the output from the "top" tool means, which is a utility which shows a list of running processes on a UNIX system along with statistics on their memory and CPU consumption.
I've attached to this email an image of some example top output …
Looking at YAML and JSON for Schemas and Validation.
As part of International Supercomputing Conference 2016, Codethink announced an open source Fortran parser that enables modernisation and execution of many academic, scientific, and commercial algorithms on ARM, Intel, and OpenPOWER.
Sam and Mike continue their post about the Teufel build process, talking about the implementation of a reliable caching mechanism.
Within companies producing devices, product progress continues to drive complexity and creates legacy challenges. Codethink senior engineers Sam Thursfield and Michael Drake explain how a recent embedded project for high end Home Entertainment demanded working with a complex Buildroot setup. This delivered major build time benefits, enabling rapid continuous integration.
Over the last few years Codethink has been helping a series of customers understand and manage the scale and complexity of their software integration pipelines. We've seen and tried various approaches to visualise what's happening, but many projects end up falling back to some combination of:
Superuser talked to Zara Zaimeche, software developer at Codethink, about StoryBoard, a task tracking system for cross-team projects.
Deep learning in Python
We do standups to keep the team aware of what everyone is doing, and to identify roadblocks. Doing them on IRC means we can
Standups should be short - approx 10 minutes …
Codethink joins Automotive Grade Linux to help advance open collaboration and automotive software development for cars of the future
Codethink is delighted to be sponsoring the first systemd conference.
Maintaining 100 million lines of code on your own is not much fun, and surprisingly expensive.
Leading automotive electronics supplier Visteon and Linux software specialist Codethink are partnering to improve the long-term traceability and reproducibility of software used in in-vehicle infotainment products.
Codethink's Contributions to ARM Software Ecosystem Facilitate Commercial Deployment Among Cloud and Enterprise End Users
DataCentred announce that in a world first they have integrated servers running ARM AArch64 processors into their OpenStack public cloud platform
First Public Baserock Meetup to be held in Manchester, England.
NVIDIA Jetson TK1 + Baserock + Linux 3.15 in one day Engineers take just 24 hours to get a new open source 3.15 Linux operating system running on new NVIDIA Jetson TK1.
Codethink Receives GENIVI Most Valuable Contributor Award. Recognised for Baserock contribution to GENIVI Baseline Integration Team.