Benjamin Cabé's blog

With Kubecon happening this week in Austin, it is probably a good time to write an article on the role of containers and having a cloud native strategy for IoT, don’t you think? Over the past years, Docker and its ecosystem have been instrumental in modernizing our approach to writing...

There are only a couple weeks left (deadline is Nov. 13) for entering the fourth edition of our Open IoT Challenge! The Open IoT Challenge encourages IoT enthusiasts and developers to build innovative solutions for the Internet of Things using open standards and open source technology. You probably remember last...

Last week, the Eclipse IoT community was pretty busy at EclipseCon Europe. We were having our largest Eclipse event of the year, and it featured lots of IoT. After a much needed weekend break to recover from an incredibly fruitful week, I am taking some time to write down some...

By now you are probably pretty aware that EclipseCon Europe, coming in just a few weeks in Ludwigsburg, Germany, Oct 22-25, will feature All Things IoT! But wait, there’s more! We will use the opportunity of having a lot of people from the Eclipse IoT community in the same location...

Today we are announcing the Eclipse IoT Open Testbeds, a new initiative for driving adoption of open source and open standards in the industry. For more than five years, over 30 open source projects have been calling Eclipse IoT home. Yet, it doesn’t necessarily make it easy for people to...

The micro:bit is one of the best IoT prototyping platforms I’ve come across in the past few months. The main MCU is a Nordic nRF51822 with 16K RAM and 256K Flash. A Freescale KL26Z is used for conveniently implementing a USB interface as well as a mass storage driver so...

As we are wrapping up the year, it is a good time to reflect on all the great things that have happened to the Eclipse IoT community this year. Eclipse IoT in 4 figures The 26 different open-source projects that are hosted at Eclipse IoT total 2.3M+ lines of code...

A couple of days ago, Google announced that they were essentially rebranding Brillo to Android Things (I do love that name, by the way!), and finally opening it for a Developer Preview. There are a few things I already like very much in Android Things: It is already supported on...

The third edition of the Open IoT Challenge officially started one week ago. More than 80 teams have submitted their entries and are now in the running to win the Open IoT Challenge 3.0! Participants have about three months to complete their solution and show the world how open source...

At EclipseCon Europe I spent a few minutes chatting with István Ráth from IncQuery Labs. He was demoing a pretty awesome set of development tools for safety-critical domains (here: railway inter-locking system), and showing how to use them in combination with some cool Eclipse IoT Projects such as Eclipse Paho...