StableBuild is now a SORACOM Technology Partner

StableBuild has joined the SORACOM Partner Space as a Technology Partner.

SORACOM's partner program brings together companies working with IoT devices, software, connectivity and system integration. Technology Partners provide software, SaaS, PaaS and other services used alongside the SORACOM platform.

StableBuild founder and CEO Mariku Kimoto also attended the SORACOM Partner business matching event this week as we joined the program.

For us, IoT is a particularly good fit.

A device can stay deployed for years. The software used to build it often depends on package repositories, container images, SDKs and other files that keep changing during that time.

Years later, that device may still need an update, a bug fix or another build of the same release.

You still need the things that the build depended on when it was first shipped.

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Long-lived IoT builds

Edge AI and Physical AI can add even more hardware-specific dependencies to that build.

The software may depend on a particular combination of hardware, operating system, libraries, model runtimes, SDKs and build tools. The target might be a small microcontroller, an embedded Linux device, a gateway or a GPU-powered system.

Some of that hardware will stay deployed for years.

When it needs an update, you still need to be able to build software for it.

Maybe the compiler version is gone. Maybe a package was removed. Maybe the container image you depended on is no longer there, as happened when NVIDIA removed older CUDA images from its registry.

For a device already sitting in the field, that can become a real problem.

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What StableBuild brings to the table

StableBuild keeps snapshots of the external dependencies used by a build available at stable, immutable locations.

That includes things like OS packages, Python packages, container images and files downloaded during a build.

For IoT, Edge AI and Physical AI projects, that means being able to go back to the same packages, images and other dependencies used for a particular release, even years later.

The hardware can stay where it is and the build can still use the dependencies it was originally built with.

That matters for IoT in particular because devices tend to have much longer lives than most software environments.

We're happy to join the SORACOM Partner Space and work with more teams building IoT, Edge AI and Physical AI systems.

If you're working on a long-lived project, StableBuild has a free tier, so you can try pinning its dependencies and rebuilding it yourself.