Hardware
Introduction: The Challenge That Wasn't There's a moment in every ambitious engineering project where you step back and think, "What have we gotten ourselves into?" For me, that moment came when we committed to designing all Hoomanely products around the vBus architecture. Not just
Firmware
How Hoomanely Leverages RTOS Abstraction to Build Unified Firmware Across Bare-Metal and FreeRTOS Introduction In modern embedded engineering, product families rarely run on a single RTOS. A hardware platform may ship as a bare-metal variant for simple, resource-constrained nodes and a FreeRTOS-based SKU for feature-rich devices, each with unique constraints,
AI
Introduction Image similarity search is one of the most versatile and widely used techniques in modern computer vision. Whether you're identifying duplicate images, powering search engines, detecting tampering, or performing lightweight recognition tasks on edge devices, the idea remains the same: convert images into numerical representations and measure
Build Modern, Maintainable, High-Performance Storefronts Introduction Shopify powers the world’s leading direct-to-consumer brands. But while most guides treat themes as design artifacts, the real value for engineers lies in treating Shopify as a modular, composable frontend and backend system. Below is a rapid, engineering-focused guide for theme development: from
AI
Most teams add AI the same way they add any new feature: ship a model, wire an endpoint, move on. A few months later, you’re juggling three versions of the “scoring service”, five subtly different summarizers, and a bundle of feature flags nobody fully trusts. Changing one model feels
Hardware
Introduction: Organization is Everything In our previous articles, we introduced the vBus ecosystem and explored the various SoM architectures at Hoomanely. We've talked about 100-pin CPU SoMs, 30-pin Power SoMs, and the challenges of standardization. But here's a question we haven't fully answered: what
Firmware
Hoomanely Context At Hoomanely, our embedded platforms power an ecosystem of modular IoT products where reliability, uptime, and predictability matter more than raw throughput. Our System-on-Module architecture spans sensing, communication and processing nodes, all operating continuously under diverse workloads. Memory allocation is therefore not a theoretical concern. It defines real-world
AI
Introduction Large language models are only as good as the information they can retrieve. As enterprise knowledge bases grow into millions of documents, traditional Retrieval‑Augmented Generation (RAG) systems begin to crack - not because the models are weak, but because the retrieval layer is too shallow. A single‑level
Hardware
Introduction: From Bus to Modules In our previous post, we introduced vBus—our universal communication bus architecture that forms the backbone of Hoomanely's modular ecosystem. We discussed the challenges of creating a standardized interface that could accommodate diverse modules with varying requirements. Today, we're pulling back
Software
When a backend is young, everything feels fast: one service, a few routes, everyone knows where things live. A year later, the same service is handling alerts, audits, preferences, billing hooks, experiment flags, and “just one more feature” after every sprint. Regression risk climbs, onboarding slows, and even small refactors