As vehicle architectures shift toward high-performance compute platforms, continuous software deployment, and complex cross-domain interactions, developers are encountering problems that cannot be solved with the tools of the past. BMW’s recent decision to adopt Percepio’s observability technology is a visible example of how OEMs are modernizing their toolchains to address these new realities.
Andreas Lifvendahl, CEO at Percepio, has dived into the QNX’s Under the Hood: SDV Developer Report (October 2025) finding further context for why this shift is accelerating.
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…That combination of challenges should sound familiar to anyone working at the intersection of embedded and distributed software systems. Traditional debugging practices simply do not scale to multi-core compute clusters, mixed-criticality workloads, multi-threaded applications, and asynchronous communication patterns.
