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Frequently Asked Questions

If you're new or looking for answers to your questions, this guide will help you learn more about our services and their features.

What does DevOps mean for an embedded systems team?

In embedded systems, DevOps bridges the gap between development and operations to improve speed, quality, and efficiency, just like in web applications. However, unlike web applications, embedded development faces unique challenges like discontinuous delivery and the need for hardware-in-the-loop testing. DevOps for embedded systems focuses on automation, configuration management, and continuous integration (CI) while ensuring that code works across various hardware configurations. By adopting DevOps, embedded teams can reduce development cycles, improve testing accuracy, and maintain consistent build environments—ultimately enhancing product reliability and scalability.

We work with your existing infrastructure to implement CI and automation solutions or help you build a new, cost-optimized setup from scratch, reducing operational overhead while increasing efficiency.

Yes. We’re experts at creating efficient cloud and DevOps solutions. We understand how best to elasticize and tune your particular environment to both minimize cost and maximize performance.

How can DevOps services accelerate our software delivery?

DevOps services can significantly speed up software delivery by automating and streamlining the development process, by eliminating out-of-phase defects, and reducing mistakes in deliveries. Companies that adopt DevOps practices can reduce deployment mistakes by 68%, reduce time to market for new features by 40%, and reduce delivery costs by 50%.

Yes. We’re experts at creating efficient cloud and DevOps solutions. We understand how best to elasticize and tune your particular environment to both minimize cost and maximize performance.

EmbedScale™

EmbedScale™ is a fully automated, low-code platform for accelerating embedded development, test, compliance, and delivery. It automates and builds configuration management into every step of embedded development from build and testing to deployment, including Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) testing, ensuring your code is validated on real hardware all-day, every day. EmbedScale™ enables true HIL continuous integration so that you find bugs quicker and release quicker with higher quality.

Either. EmbedScale™ can be deployed on-prem in your cloud or physical infrastructure, or we’ll host it for you. In either case, HIL testing will bridge to your physical devices wherever they may reside.

Yes. EmbedScale™ uses the same build toolchain, scripts, and commands that you currently use. 4TLAS containerizes your toolchain so that it can be placed under configuration management and then served to any system for build, including a developer’s local system. The build executive provides a configuration interface to automate your current build process.

EmbedScale™ relies on Configuration as Code (CasC) and visually-driven configuration, rather than functional coding. In addition, it utilizes the build and test tools that you already have developed, which allows you to reuse rather than further develop. EmbedScale™’s automated test framework is built specifically to enable QA teams that are not software developers.

You build devices, and acceptance testing must marry your firmware to your devices. The old way is to perform HIL testing manually or semi-automated at release time only, but you end up with a list of bugs to fix and that holds up the release. EmbedScale™ allows you to test continuously on your hardware and find and fix the bugs each and every day so that when you release, you’re ready to push it.

EmbedScale™ works with whatever tool you're using. It can hook into GitHub, GitLab, and BitBucket and will execute on-premise or in our infrastructure.

No. EmbedScale™ doesn’t replace the repositories or the project management features of those tools. EmbedScale™ does, however, replace or work in tandem with the runners or pipelines features of those tools. Rather than you having to build, manage, and maintain a custom pipeline, EmbedScale™ provides a done-for-you solution that integrates with your Pull Requests, merges to main, releases, and any time-based (ie, nightly, weekly, etc) triggers you need.

Yes. EmbedScale™ uses the same tools and applications that you currently use to program, command, control, and acquire data from your test systems. This extends to external equipment such as robots, scopes, SWD/JTAG debuggers, etc.

The EmbedScale™ configuration management system starts at the build and continues throught the entire lifecycle of that build. The build executive saves all build environments, artifacts, metadata, and even the build command itself into its configuration database and assigns a hash value – the FuzeID™. With a FuzeID™ you know the following for each and ever build:

  • Who, when, what tools, and the build command(s)
  • Source commitIDs for all repos
  • Dependencies
  • Build package contents
  • Test results
  • Release status - stage, by who, when
  • Delivery status - to who, by who, when

Automation is at the core of EmbedScale ™ and will be the magic power that allows you to scale, but automating the wrong process or at the wrong time will hinder, rather than help you. EmbedScale™’s automation philosophy is that it becomes the “person-in-the-lab.” EmbedScale™ allows your people to refine the processes for build, package, and test and then gives you the tools to automate those exact processes. No new tools or development required.

EmbedScale™ provides a single platform that integrates and automates the process of build, package, test, release, and delivery. It offloads the development and management of your CI environment so that your developers and QA team can focus on the product, and stop wasting time on the tools.

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