2 posts tagged with "framework"

We are thrilled to announce a new major version of Transitive, the open-source framework for full-stack robotics. Version 2.0 adds significant new integrations and features: storage of historic and time-series data in ClickHouse, visualization in Grafana, and custom alerting via Alertmanager. Some of our capabilities, like the free Health Monitoring capability, already use these features, providing significant added value to robotics companies with growing fleets.

Transitive, the open-source framework for full-stack robotics, is built on three core concepts: full-stack packages, real-time data-synchronization with full-stack reactivity, and topic-based access control. In this post, as part of a mini-series exploring these concepts, we will describe the former.

The Need for Full-stack Packages​

Software package managers serve three high-level functions: they define a standard format for packages incl. versioning, they provide dependency resolution, and they (typically) provide a mechanism for the distribution and installation of these packages. There exist a good many package managers, typically tied to a specific context, e.g. apt, yum, snap, npm, yarn, pip, uv, and cargo, to name just a few. It would seem plausible that at least one of these existing package managers would be suitable for managing robotic software as well, but they are not and that is due to a very specific need in robotics: cross-device dependency management.