Climbing down from the clouds
From abstract idea to concrete implementation.
Software Engineering
Ideas, insights, and strategies for today’s software engineers.
Evaluating and choosing an IoT platform
This report examines various features that heavy-equipment B2B industries should expect in an IoT platform as well as what you should be looking for when choosing a platform vendor.
Managing the meta time zone
Three principles to consider when designing global BPM applications.
19 tools you need to start working with electronics
A survey of some of the common tools you should consider owning for working with modern electronics.
The Raspberry Pi 3: Is it good enough?
The O’Reilly Hardware Podcast: The Raspberry Pi is starting to look disruptive.
Learning Unix for OS X: Multitasking
This practical guide shows you how to get much more from your system by tapping into Unix, the robust operating system concealed beneath OS X’s interface.
Peter Hoddie on JavaScript for embedded systems
The O’Reilly Hardware Podcast: Hardware abstraction, scripting languages, and user experience.
Why you need to have strong product ownership
On having a clearly defined vision in product development.
More pixels law: How the camera is becoming the world’s most important sensor
Greg Borenstein surveys computer vision and introduces the basic concepts needed to get started building your first computer vision applications.
Defining a reactive microservice
Two characteristics to consider when building a microservices-based architecture.
Taking the BeagleBone Cookbook recipes beyond BeagleBone Black
Jason Kridner covers recipes in the BeagleBone Cookbook that go beyond BeagleBone Black for connecting and talking to the physical world.
Introducing Go: functions
Start learning about programming with Go: read Chapter 6 from Introducing Go.
Practical electronics: Fasteners and adhesives
Fasteners and fastening techniques are key to creating reliable attachments, or building a solid, reliable chassis and enclosure for a circuit or electro-mechanical device.
Sanjit Biswas on industrial sensors
The O’Reilly Hardware Podcast: The business of building, marketing, and deploying sensors in tough environments
Programming robots with ROS: Adding a software library
How to integrate an existing software library with ROS.
Code quality and measuring what matters
Quality shouldn’t be in the eye of the beholder.
Evaluating and choosing an IoT platform: Look before the leap
The key to smart platform investment is to "look before you leap": Which elements of a platform are essential, and which aren't?
Using Raspberry Pi and Arduino to survive a zombie apocalypse
In this webcast, Simon Monk highlights how using your Maker skills could help you survive in a post-apocalyptic world.
Matthew Berggren on making electronics accessible
The O’Reilly Hardware Podcast: Better ways to design electronics.
Building IoT systems with Web standards
EVRYTHNG's Vlad Trifa and Dominique Guinard outline a Web of Things (WoT) approach to the IoT, using a real-world device to show how the approach is different from the IoT and how it can be used to describe the metadata, properties, or commands of any physical object.
5 things to know about software development in 2016
These are the things that are changing software development.
4 hardware trends to watch in 2016
Early signals of what's to come in the hardware world.
Welcome to the age of costless computers
Dave Rauchwerk on how he solved a seemingly impossible engineering problem.
Joe Biron on IoT platforms
The O’Reilly Hardware Podcast: Building systems to get the most from connected devices.