Analysis
What edge runtimes actually change about request handling
A practical account of the constraints edge runtimes impose, and which familiar server-side assumptions stop holding when you move there.
A film dives from a 300 mm silicon wafer through a chip, its copper wiring and a transistor's fins into the silicon crystal and the electron cloud of one atom.
Independent engineering & research · Est. 2025
Engineering the foundations behind technology.
2SVII is an independent engineering and research platform building developer technologies, electronic systems, infrastructure tools and technical knowledge.
00 · Purpose
Modern products rest on layers of engineering most people never see. 2SVII works inside those layers: we study how technology functions, build what we learn, and publish it with its methods and its limits.
Section 01
Fields of work
Six fields, one standard. Each plate is a real imaging technique or instrument, rendered from first principles for 2SVII.
Section 02
Latest work
Research, builds, software and analysis, newest first. Every record carries its own figure, drawn from the work itself.
Editorially Reviewed ContributionJournal
Measuring firmware power draw without a lab bench
A contributor's method for getting usable sleep-current measurements from battery-powered firmware using commonly available equipment.
Technical ArticleSoftwareBeta
Drift — a synchronisation engine for unreliable connectivity
A TypeScript library implementing per-field conflict resolution with vector clocks, extracted from the offline synchronisation research.
ResearchResearch
Offline Synchronisation for Intermittently Connected Applications
A conflict resolution strategy for mobile clients that spend long periods offline, evaluated against three months of field traces.
Section 03
How we publish
Rules the platform enforces, not promises: a record that breaks one cannot be published.
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Methods in the open
Every research record states its problem, objective, methodology, findings and limitations before it can be published.
02
Every claim sourced
Citations must resolve to a declared reference, and every figure carries a description for readers who cannot see it.
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Reviewed before print
Each submission passes the editorial process for its category. A draft cannot skip review on its way to publication.
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Corrections in the open
A corrected record is published as corrected, and a retracted one is withdrawn rather than quietly served on.
For engineers, researchers and students
Publish work that holds up.
We publish selected work from people building meaningful technical ideas and systems. Every submission passes an editorial process appropriate to its category before it is published.