009 - Sylvan Morris

James chats with Sylvan Morris about introducing Rust into a company, working at an embedded startup, over the air bootloaders, and managing risk.

Originally Recorded on 2020-12-28.

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Show Notes

• Sylvan Morris
• Cape Town, South Africa
• University of Cape Town
• Mechatronics Engineering
• Plentify
• OTA - Over the Air Updates
• PIC32 microcontrollers
• Boot Loaders
• EZBL serial bootloader
• Espressif ESP8266
• The Rust book
• Rust Book Final Project - Multithreaded Web Server
• Digital Ocean
• Python struct module
• Serde
• MIPS (architecture)
• virtualenv (python)
• "dogfooding"
• balena
• Ceedling test framework
• CircleCI
• Mocking
• James' work in progress EMP book
• IAR Embedded Workbench
• Memfault
• Interrupt blog
• cmocka
• Google's cmockery test framework
• cohorts
• "Estimates without associated risk [assessments] are worthless" - Neal S. Gray
• Impedance mismatch
• "Go big or go home"
• Crunch

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Credits

Thanks to Louie Zong for the music.