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Engineering
at the Edge _

Welcome to the Torizon R&D team's blog. Notes from the field on Linux, embedded, containers, and security.

September 09, 2026

Using squashfs for fast, encrypted Torizon Secure Offline Updates (Lockboxes)

Torizon Offline Updates are quite flexible, and can be delivered as a single file in squashfs format. This brings a number of benefits--among them the ability to easily add encryption to the lockbox …

How to Persist Application Data Across Torizon OS Updates

December 02, 2024

How to Persist Application Data Across Torizon OS Updates

How to make sure your application data is not overwritten or erased by OS Updates

Container Embedded Linux

Embedded Software Testing: the Hardware-Software Interface (Part 1)

August 14, 2024

Embedded Software Testing: the Hardware-Software Interface (Part 1)

A series about Embedded Software Testing.

Testing Embedded Linux Embedded

Wait! My Container is Crashing Before Startup

August 08, 2024

Wait! My Container is Crashing Before Startup

How to implement container startup sync so that your application doesn't crash due to …

Container Embedded Linux

How does hardware acceleration work with containers?

June 05, 2024

How does hardware acceleration work with containers?

A primer on hardware acceleration, cgroup rules and some more.

Performance Container Linux Embedded