At the Volvo Cars Open Innovation Arena, one of the tools that we use and enable rest of the company to use is real time 3D. Through the partnership we have with Unity, we built an internal simulator — “Product Simulator” that is a representation of a complete virtual vehicle…

Autoscaling is one of the most talked features of Kubernetes. HPA or HorizontalPodAutoscaler works best when dealing with REST API based services (or microservices) since increase in the number of incoming requests leads to increased consumption of memory and CPU. Kubernetes readily provides these metrics and is used by HPA…

This post is an interview made with one of our embedded Rust Pioneers, Julius Gustavsson who is a Technical Expert and System Architect at Volvo Cars Corporation. JF = Johannes Foufas (interviewer), JG = Julius Gustavsson (interviewee). JF: How did you discover Rust? JG: I think this was back in…

It was a traditionally busy Wednesday morning (don’t ask, they just are) when the email from Storytel dropped into the Dev Portal in-box. They had been building an Android Automotive app using our Emulator and were about 95% percent of the way there. But they had questions. Ash (the Developer…

This post is a tribute to, in my view, one of the best YouTube clips about software development, Mike Acton’s talk: “CppCon 2014: Mike Acton “Data-Oriented Design and C++”. There are so many aspects of his talk that me and my colleagues resonate with. In order to solve new…

Like most larger organisations, Volvo employs a Content Delivery Network (CDN) to distribute its web-based services. …

Zuul is an Open Source CI system originally developed in the Open Stack community, now called Open Infra. Here at Volvo Car Corporation (VCC) Zuul is our default CI/CD chain at Research and Development, and we use it because of this mantra: Stop merging broken code! Our system is built…

In part one, we went through creating the foundation of a fully-custom design language system. We called it Tiara Elm and added our very own typography and colors. We also created our theme, holding our design language foundation using StaticProvidableCompositionLocal. Implementing a fully-custom Design Language System with Jetpack Compose — Part one: Foundation When Jetpack Compose found its way to the Android community, it brought so many possibilities and new areas to explore…medium.com