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COREDUMP #016: From Startup to Global Brand: Scaling Engineering at reMarkable

In today’s Coredump Session, we sit down with Nico Comier, CTO of reMarkable, to explore the journey from early-stage startup to global brand. Nico shares insights on scaling engineering teams, balancing technical credibility with leadership responsibilities, and what it really takes to bring a hardware product to market. From the pressures of product launches to the importance of customer connection, this conversation dives into the realities of building impactful technology.

AI's Impact on Software Devs Productivity & Downsides

AI is boosting flow, job satisfaction, and productivity for devs. But here’s the twist: it’s not actually giving us more time to do valuable work. In his GitKon talk, Nathen Harvey digs into the real impacts of AI adoption in technical teams. Yes, AI reduces toil and improves satisfaction. But it also shifts how we spend our time and sometimes that means less “valuable work” gets done. So the question becomes: how can we use AI not just to work faster, but to work better?

Faster, more memory-efficient performance in Grafana Mimir: a closer look at Mimir Query Engine

Until recently, Grafana Mimir — our open source, horizontally scalable, multi-tenant time series database (TSDB) — has exclusively used Prometheus’ PromQL engine to evaluate queries. While the PromQL engine works great, it sometimes needs a lot of memory to run, specifically in the Mimir querier component. To address this memory consumption issue, we recently introduced Mimir Query Engine (MQE).

What is Asynchronous Job Monitoring?

Modern applications don’t process everything inside the request/response path. To keep APIs responsive, time-consuming work like image resizing, payment processing, or data syncs is moved into background queues. Workers then pick up these asynchronous jobs and run them outside the main thread. Asynchronous job monitoring is the practice of tracking these background tasks: Without this visibility, background workers become a blind spot.

SQL performance improvements: finding the right queries to fix (part 1)

A few weeks ago, we massively improved the performance of the dashboard & website by optimizing some of our SQL queries. In this post, we'll share how we identified the queries that needed work. In the next post, we'll explore how we fixed each of them. We'll cover the basics and gradually work our way up to the more advanced/complex ways of identifying slow queries. In this post, you'll see: Let's go!

Making the invisible visible: Are your cloud firewalls and DDoS protection really working?

Every business builds strong defences to keep attackers out. Firewalls and DDoS protection serve that purpose, standing guard over company apps and websites, like knights at the castle gate keeping out trolls (not just the ones on X). But here’s the problem: those defences only work if users actually walk through the front gate. Sometimes, people find hidden paths or side doors around your walls, so the guards never see them enter.

Improving Transaction Speed and Transparency in Digital Operations

Transactions happen fast in our lives, whether it's paying for a coffee, sending a gift, or moving money between accounts. We expect speed and clarity. Delays, confusion, or hidden steps frustrate everyone. That's why new digital systems aim to make money moves quick and visible. In the coming sections, we'll look at what drives this change, why it matters for users and businesses, and where it might go next.

Why Comprehensive IT Risk Mitigation Is Essential in Modern Operations

The digital economy offers unprecedented opportunities for innovation, but it also presents a high-stakes risk that must be effectively managed to ensure operational resilience. Organisations that are heavily reliant on IT to provide services, control data, and establish trust with customers must prioritise risk avoidance as part of their operational resilience plan.

GS1 Digital Link: A Small Code That Could Change How We Run Operations

When people talk about digital transformation, the conversation usually drifts toward AI, robotics, or maybe blockchain. What rarely gets the spotlight is something as ordinary as a barcode. And yet, barcodes are quietly being reinvented, and the upgrade is far more meaningful than most people realize.