Firmware Over The Air updates are a crucial tool in the context of IoT and smart homes. We explain the term in an easy-to-understand way. We also provide an insight into why FOTA is not only relevant for software developers, security managers and device manufacturers, but also for end users....

For more than 12 months, Scandio has been developing a Golang-based gateway system for a major industrial customer to connect several million IoT devices. Thus, this gateway is the single point of contact for every access to the customers cloud services. A new, fully automated tooling had to be developed for the complex release management due to the significant growth of the project and the...