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Raspberry Pi is having a breakout year. The Cambridge-based maker of single-board computers posted a record first half, with revenue climbing ninety percent to two hundred fifty-six point nine million dollars. Profit more than tripled, and the company shipped four point two million boards — a well-timed memory stockpile helping it sidestep the worst of the global shortage crunch.
On the infrastructure side, Perplexity has quietly replaced Amazon DynamoDB with an in-house key-value store called CobbleDB, built in Rust by its own engineers. The migration cut query latency by a factor of five and brought down cloud storage costs — a reminder that at scale, building your own tools can outperform even the biggest cloud offerings.
And in the world of digital assets, Tether moved to reassure markets after the seizure of eighty-nine million dollars in US assets tied to EQIBank. Tether says its exposure sits below sixty-four million dollars, but the episode is a pointed reminder that even stablecoin infrastructure carries real counterparty risk at the fiat gateway layer.
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