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Helium Brings Connectivity Innovation to IoT

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It’s always interesting to find companies focused on innovating the underlying infrastructural layers that makes amazing things happen in IoT. One of these is Helium, which was co-founded by Shawn Fanning (Napster co-creator) and Amir Haleem in 2013, with a mission to make it easier to build decentralized wireless networks.

They’ve created what they call "The People’s network, the world’s first sharing-economy wireless network to simplify connecting anything to the internet by rewarding anyone to become a network operator. There are now over 2700 Hotspots in over 745 U.S. cities across every state with the exception of West Virginia (even Puerto Rico is online). 

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How to Build Graal-Enabled JDK8 on CircleCI

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The GraalVM compiler is a replacement to HotSpot’s server-side JIT compiler, widely known as the C2 compiler. It is written in Java with the goal of better performance compared to the C2 compiler. New changes, starting with Java 9, mean that we can now plug in our own hand-written C2 compiler into the JVM thanks to JVMCI. The researchers and engineers at Oracle Labs have created a variant of JDK8 with JVMCI enabled, which can be used to build the GraalVM compiler. The GraalVM compiler is open source and is available on GitHub (along with the HotSpot JVMCI sources needed to build the GraalVM compiler). This gives us the ability to fork/clone it and build our own version of the GraalVM compiler.

In this post, we are going to build the GraalVM compiler with JDK8 on CircleCI. The resulting artifacts are going to be:

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