Many have already heard that Cloud4Y is an enterprise cloud provider. Therefore, we will not talk about ourselves, but will share a short story about how we had problems accessing some sites and what caused this. One fine day, the marketing department complained to the engineers that when working through the terminal, some browsers took a long time to load […]
The startup Boom Technology is preparing to test a demonstration prototype of the supersonic passenger aircraft XB-1, for which it has agreed to cooperate with Flight Research, a company specializing in flight testing and certification, as well as training pilots. Boom's goal is to demonstrate the viability of its designs with the XB-1, thereby paving the way for future production of mass commercial supersonic […]
On January 21, 2020, the official release of the stable version of Wine 5.0 took place - a free tool for running native Windows programs in a UNIX environment. This is an alternative, free implementation of the Windows API. The recursive acronym WINE stands for "Wine Is Not an Emulator". This version has about a year of development and more than 7400 individual changes. Lead developer Alexandre Julliard identifies four: […]
The analytical company GfK has published a forecast for the global market of household appliances and electronics: this year, costs are expected to increase in this segment. It is reported, in particular, that expenses will increase by 2,5% compared to last year. The global market size will exceed the landmark €1 trillion mark, reaching €1,05 trillion. The highest costs are expected in the field of telecom products. In 2019, on [...]
I would like to share some impressions about the necessity or unnecessaryness of such a thing as a control panel for a commercial single-server web project with a very part-time administrator. The story began a couple of years ago, when friends of friends asked me to assist in the purchase of a business - a news site - from a technical point of view. It was necessary to delve a little into what works on what, to make sure that everything [...]
Chuwi has started selling the Chuwi Herobox mini-PC. Despite its compact size, the new product can easily replace a desktop computer for office tasks. Although the scope of its application can be much wider. Chuwi Herobox is equipped with a quad-core Intel Celeron N4100 (Gemini Lake) processor, 8 GB of LPDDR4 RAM, a 180 GB solid-state drive, and various types of interfaces. Besides […]
One of the most idiot-laden professions is managers who manage programmers. Not all, but those who were not programmers themselves. Those who think that it is possible to “increase” efficiency (or increase “efficiency”?) using methods from books. Without even bothering to read these same books, the video is a gypsy one. Those who have never written code. Those for whom they are filming […]
Georgia is a small country in the Caucasus that is successfully fighting for world recognition as the birthplace of wine; it was here that they knew how to make this intoxicating drink 8 years ago. Georgia is also known for its hospitality, cuisine and beautiful natural landscapes. How can it be useful for freelancers and companies working in the field of IT technologies? Preferential taxes for IT companies […]
“As of April 24, 2019, the PMI Register includes 1649 people with various active Institute certificates in Russia.” This is exactly how I started an article published in May 2019 (available on my personal website and on Yandex.zen). What has changed during this time? There were a few more of them. As of January 10, 2020, the public […]
Hi all! I'm a backend developer writing microservices in Java + Spring. I work in one of the internal product development teams at Tinkoff. In our team, the question of optimizing queries in a DBMS often arises. You always want to be a little faster, but you can’t always get by with thoughtfully constructed indexes—you have to look for some workarounds. During one of […]
Our report on salaries in IT for the second half of 2019 is based on data from the Habr Careers salary calculator, which collected more than 7000 salaries during this period. In the report, we will look at current salaries for the main IT specializations, as well as their dynamics over the past six months, both in the country as a whole and separately […]
In general, the Hand of God is one of the most famous football goals in history, performed by Argentinean Diego Maradona in the 51st minute of the quarter-final match of the 1986 FIFA World Cup against England. “Hand” - because the goal was scored by hand. In our team, we call the Hand of God the help of an experienced employee to an inexperienced one in solving a problem. An experienced employee […]
