Hardware
Inside a modern chip fab: 24 hours in the cleanest room on Earth
A rare tour of a leading-edge facility, from wafer intake to the robots that never stop.
Lena Hoffmann 1 min read
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Lena Hoffmann
Covers startups, venture funding and the European tech scene from Berlin.
Hardware
Server CPUs with 256 cores change the maths of consolidation
One socket now replaces a rack from five years ago. Software licensing has not caught up.
Lena Hoffmann 1 min read
Software & Apps
A new text editor is fast enough to make you notice
Written from scratch with GPU rendering and a collaborative core, it opens gigabyte files without flinching.
Lena Hoffmann 1 min read
Software & Apps
Open-source maintainers are unionising, sort of
A new collective negotiates support contracts on behalf of dozens of small projects that companies depend on.
Lena Hoffmann 1 min read
Software & Apps
The web app that replaced a desktop suite at a 5,000-person company
A migration case study: what broke, what improved and why the IT team would do it again.
Lena Hoffmann 1 min read
Software & Apps
Why your favourite app got slower, and what the team is doing about it
A frank engineering post-mortem on five years of accumulated features and the performance work to undo them.
Lena Hoffmann 1 min read
Cloud & Infrastructure
Kubernetes turned ten. Here is what the next decade looks like
The container orchestrator is now boring infrastructure. The interesting work is happening in the layers above it.
Lena Hoffmann 1 min read
Cloud & Infrastructure
Object storage is eating the database
Analytics engines are reading directly from cheap blob storage, and the warehouse is becoming a query layer.
Lena Hoffmann 1 min read
Gadgets
The e-bike that fixes itself
Over-the-air diagnostics, a motor that reports wear and a subscription nobody asked for.
Lena Hoffmann 1 min read
Gadgets
Earbuds get a hearing-aid mode, and audiologists are paying attention
Over-the-counter hearing assistance arrives in a mainstream product, with a self-administered test and surprisingly good results.
Lena Hoffmann 1 min read
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