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Reading a job advertisement critically
A recruiter's guide to what job advertisements actually tell you — including ours.
Read post → 2 Jul 2026 · People & Culture · Anneli Kukk · 2 minTwelve weeks in the SOC: an intern's account
I am a BTU undergraduate on placement in Terravek's Security Operations Centre. Here is what it is actually like.
Read post → 11 Jun 2026 · Research · Bettina Reuss · 2 minTwenty years of Photonwerk optics
The München optics bench predates Terravek's ownership by seven years. What has changed and what has deliberately not.
Read post → 21 May 2026 · Engineering · Sander Bruinsma · 2 minORBIS 4.2: what shipped and what slipped
The May release notes, plus the two things we said would be in it and are not.
Read post → 7 May 2026 · Product · Marta Silva · 2 minSix months of the unified tasking fabric
GRIDSCAN customers were migrated onto the shared tasking fabric in November. What broke, what did not.
Read post → 16 Apr 2026 · Cybersecurity · Ingrid Halvorsen · 2 minCoordinated disclosure: a year of reports
We received 31 reports last year through security@terravek.com. Here is what happened to them.
Read post → 19 Mar 2026 · Product · Daan Kruithof · 2 minNineteen years and one roadmap
ORBIS, GRIDSCAN, TIDEWATCH and AGRISENSE are converging onto a single tasking and delivery fabric. Why now.
Read post → 26 Feb 2026 · AI & Machine Learning · Yuxin Zhao · 2 minModel cards, three years on
We committed to publishing failure modes in 2021. Here is what it has actually cost and returned.
Read post → 22 Jan 2026 · Cloud & Platform · Kaarel Mägi · 2 minWhat we got wrong about multi-region
eu-de-1 has been live for five years. Some of the assumptions we built it on turned out to be wrong.
Read post → 13 Nov 2025 · Product · Jasper Vermeulen · 2 minThe economics of a three-year FIELDKIT deployment
The purchase price of an in-situ node is the smallest part of what it costs. Here is the rest of it.
Read post → 25 Sep 2025 · Events · Joris Veenstra · 2 minTerravek Summit 2025: ORBIS 4 and 584 people
Two days, 31 countries, and the announcement we had been sitting on since March.
Read post → 14 Aug 2025 · Engineering · Maarten de Groot · 2 minWhy our API has a boring deprecation policy
36 months of support and no breaking changes within a major version. The policy is dull and that is the entire value.
Read post → 24 Jul 2025 · Cybersecurity · Laura Peeters · 2 minHiring for security in a small team
What I look for when the security engineering team is three people and every hire is a quarter of the function.
Read post → 19 Jun 2025 · Customer Stories · Lucia Moreno · 2 minZeeland: three and a half hours of warning
The storm-surge early warning service, how it works, and the limits we were careful to state up front.
Read post → 8 May 2025 · Research · Hanne Vestergaard · 2 minPersistent scatterer interferometry, explained without the mathematics
How we measure millimetre ground movement from space, and the three things that most often go wrong.
Read post → 24 Apr 2025 · Company · Priya Ramanathan · 2 minInterfaces between four planets: integrating an acquisition
We have integrated two companies. The second went considerably better, and the reason was a written playbook nobody wanted to write.
Read post → 20 Mar 2025 · Cloud & Platform · Miguel Soares · 2 minWhat a real post-incident review looks like
We publish a review for every incident with customer impact. Here is the structure and why blame is absent from it.
Read post → 30 Jan 2025 · Research · Sofia Ricci · 2 minA decade of the Vollenhove calibration range
Forty-two nodes, a reflector array and three campaigns a year. Why a software company owns a field in Overijssel.
Read post → 14 Nov 2024 · Sustainability · Priya Ramanathan · 2 minGreen 2030: our targets and where we are behind
We published a set of 2030 commitments this year. Two of them are on track and one is not.
Read post → 8 Oct 2024 · People & Culture · Katrin Wiegand · 2 minOur pay gap figures, published again
We publish gender pay gap data across all eight countries whether or not the law requires it. This year's numbers, including the one that got worse.
Read post → 26 Sep 2024 · Product · Daan Kruithof · 2 minORBIS 4 and inference at the edge
Running models on the payload rather than after downlink changes what is possible, and what is sensible.
Read post → 11 Jul 2024 · Cloud & Platform · Triin Saar · 2 minHow we choose which alerts wake someone up
Our page volume dropped 62% and our incident detection got faster. Those are related.
Read post → 27 Jun 2024 · Cloud & Platform · Sven Dijkstra · 2 minScheduled maintenance is not an incident
How we schedule, announce and run disruptive changes — and why we announce ones that turn out to need no downtime.
Read post → 16 May 2024 · Engineering · Mathieu Blanchard · 2 minSvalgrund: building a ground station where nothing else is
Notes from commissioning an unstaffed X-band downlink node 200 km inside the Arctic Circle.
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