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The Pragmatic Embedded Podcast · 22 Dec 2021 · 39m

What this episode covers

Hosts Jeff Gable and Luca share war stories from their careers in embedded systems, highlighting the pain of manual testing in helicopter avionics, the chaos of managing requirements with Word and Excel in Dropbox for medical devices, and the technical debt of massive #ifdef blocks in legacy machine tool software. They discuss the industry's slow adoption of modern software practices like version control and CI/CD, contrasting embedded development with web development standards. The episode concludes with book recommendations including 'The Phoenix Project' and 'Team Topologies', and reflections on the future of IoT security and agile adoption in hardware.

Most relevant to

established companies and companies scaling up

Topics

Mentioned

Companies
MathWorks
Products
NH 90, The Phoenix Project, Team Topologies, Modern Embedded Systems Programming, Test-Driven Development for Embedded C
Chips
Motorola 68K
Tools
Subversion, Simulink, Stateflow, Matlab, CVS, Dropbox, DOORS

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