Blog Posts

There is a lot of buzz around cryptocurrencies – will BTC be over $20,000 by the time this blog post goes live? – these days, but beyond the hype, one thing is pretty clear: it enables a decentralized economy that is particularly interesting to look at from an IoT perspective...

Last year I made the bold move to write-up the 2017 trends I thought would be important for the IoT industry and Eclipse IoT community. It seemed like a useful exercise so I thought a 2018 version is appropriate. 1. Edge/Fog/IoT Gateway computing will continue to gain traction. It is...

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...

The fourth edition of the Open IoT Challenge was launched in September and as of November 20, the race to build the best open IoT solution has officially begun! Over 70 teams have submitted their ideas and are now in the running to win the Open IoT Challenge 4.0. The...

When I started working as a Marketing Specialist in the tech world, I never thought about becoming a speaker. It isn’t that I didn’t think it was a reachable goal. I spoke in front of crowds in the past, but it just didn’t occur to me in a tech setting...

I am very pleased to announce that the first nine project proposals for the Eclipse Enterprise for Java (EE4J) top-level project have been formally published for community review. This is the first step to making the migration of Java EE to the Eclipse Foundation a reality. The process of migrating...

This blog post is based on the text of Eclipse EE4J’s very first GitHub Issue. Please join the conversation over there! We need a new brand name for the set of specifications that will be created by the new community process. This brand name will also become a certification mark...

The Eclipse Foundation is planning on removing a few deprecated components from eclipse.org-common in an effort to reduce our code base for www.eclipse.org. We are using Bug 526827 - Fall clean up of eclipse.org-common to track the following tasks: Bug 468336 - Remove support for the Nova theme in eclipse.org-common...

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...