Articles by Cardinal Peak Staff

This past week, Cardinal Peak director of server and web software engineering, Matt Osminer was featured in an in-depth, two-part expert interview on the Synscort blog. Matt discusses Big Data and many of the solutions we employ at Cardinal Peak. He also talks about dev ops, when to outsource, and improving ROI in data management.... View Article

Secure your IoT devices with robust cryptography and access control. Learn best practices for HIPAA compliance, encryption, and secure communication in this in-depth guide!

I was recently invited to give a presentation on security for Internet of Things networking at infocomm 16. While I discussed the topic and scope with the organizers, I didn’t have a good catchy title prepared, so the organizers took it upon themselves to submit one for me: “Hacker-Proof IoT.” Easy, right? While I would... View Article

Last month, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) announced yet another new Bluetooth® spec, called Bluetooth 5. This new release, out at the end of this year or early next, quadruples the range and doubles the speed of the previous spec. When they hit the market, Bluetooth 5-enabled devices will be able to connect at speeds... View Article

Discover how to build your own home automation system with ease and efficiency. Take control of your environment using the latest in DIY technology.

I had the pleasure of attending a few segments of Boulder Startup Week, a weeklong event just down the road from Cardinal Peak dedicated to helping startups become successful. Startup Week brings innovators, entrepreneurs, mentors, and investors together to talk about how startups can create the right culture, find funding, bring a product to market,... View Article

Continuing his guest blogging series over at the Loggly blog, Cardinal Peak Senior Software Engineer Thomson Comer talks this week about how to write effectively for Loggly. He debunks myths about remote logging and gives some great tips for debugging. Check out his most recent post and stay tuned for the third and final post... View Article

Earlier this week, I wrote about the importance of synching audio and video, something that we use in many applications. We’ve already discussed why it’s necessary, and today I want to talk about the different ways to do it, some easier than others. Adjust the Video The most common and easiest way to correct for... View Article

These days, we employ audio and video applications in everything from IoT to embedded products, and one challenge that comes up time and time again is synchronization. Synchronization between audio and video streams is the most common case, but some applications require synchronization between multiple A/V streams, the latter being much more complicated. For the... View Article

Thomson Comer, Senior Software Engineer here at Cardinal Peak, is writing a guest blog series starting this week for Loggly. His three-part series begins with this post explaining how remote logging works and how it can benefit engineers and developers in locating bugs in specific lines of code. Leave questions and comments for Thomson here... View Article

GStreamer is a very good open-source multimedia framework supported on almost every platform conceivable. To use advanced features of GStreamer in Windows, we updated the complex legacy instructions for building GStreamer-1.0 (1.8.0) on Windows.

It’s an early morning for many of us after “springing forward” and losing an hour of sleep over the weekend. While the time change might have a jarring impact on our alertness, our computers are probably humming along without ever noticing the switch. Or did they? It depends on which time system you’re using since... View Article