Blog posts written by Vergil Yotov

Vergil Yotov
17 May 2023

Docker vs Snaps: a side by side comparison

IoT Article

The Docker project was initiated by dotCloud, a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) company that created Docker to run their internal infrastructure. Slowly, Docker became more successful than any of their other products, so dotCloud rebranded as Docker Inc. Docker provides easy-to-use tooling and grew into an entire ecosystem for container mana ...

Vergil Yotov
23 September 2022

IoT Project Lifecycle: Efficient prototyping with Snaps and Ubuntu Core [Part I]

Internet of Things Article

There is nothing more exciting than creating something new. Whether developing a new idea, coding a new software feature or creating a new product altogether. After a lot of hard work, we can finally see users interacting with the system and sharing their feedback. The quickest way to reach that point in a project is ...

Vergil Yotov
15 June 2022

Master IoT software updates with validation sets on Ubuntu Core 22

Ubuntu Article

If you are packaging your IoT applications as snaps or containers, you are aware of the benefits of bundling an application with its dependencies. Publishing snaps across different operating system versions and even distributions is much easier than maintaining package dependencies. Automated IoT software updates make managing fleets of d ...

Vergil Yotov
5 November 2021

Five reasons to manage your IoT edge devices

Internet of Things Article

The Internet of Things adoption is growing faster than ever before. As connected devices become more affordable, they find their place in many aspects of our lives. Users worldwide can benefit from a large ecosystem of IoT solutions. However, this rapid growth comes at a cost. Different IoT edge devices have different interfaces, speak di ...

Vergil Yotov
14 September 2021

What is IoT device management?

Internet of Things Article

Smart devices are everywhere around us. We carry one in our pocket, watch movies on another while a third cooks us dinner. Every day there are thousands of new devices connecting to the Internet. Research shows that by 2025, more than 150,000 IoT devices will come online every minute. With such vast numbers it is ...