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 […]
Google has announced an extension of the maintenance period for Chromebook devices to 8 years, during which automatic updates are generated. Automatic updates were initially released for Chromebooks for three years, but support has since been extended to six years and now eight. For example, Lenovo 10e Chromebook Tablet and Acer Chromebook 712 devices released in 2020 […]
The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs purchased 31 thousand Astra Linux OS licenses from the system integrator Tegrus (part of the Merlion group). This is the largest single purchase of Astra Linux OS. Previously, it had already been purchased by law enforcement agencies: in the course of several purchases, a total of 100 thousand licenses were acquired by the Ministry of Defense, 50 thousand by the Russian Guard. Renat Lashin, executive director of the Domestic Soft association, calls them comparable in […]
Dear fellow engineers, the Metarhia community presents to your attention a modern course on Node.js, which includes an in-depth analysis of all the capabilities and aspects of the platform. The main emphasis is on how to create reliable, high-load application servers and APIs without being tied to a specific framework or even protocol, i.e. abstract business logic into a separate layer. The lectures are accompanied by many code examples demonstrating […]
The developers of the Android-x86 project, within which the independent community is developing a port of the Android platform for the x86 architecture, have published the second test release of the assembly based on the Android 9 platform. The assembly includes fixes and additions that improve the performance of Android on the x86 architecture. Universal Live builds of Android-x86 9 for x86 32-bit (725 MB) and x86_64 (920 MB) architectures have been prepared for download […]
Kubuntu Team presents its first official laptop - Kubuntu Focus. And don’t be confused by its small size - this is a real terminator in the shell of a business laptop. He will swallow any task without choking. The pre-installed Kubuntu 18.04 LTS OS has been carefully tuned and optimized to run as efficiently as possible on this hardware, resulting in a significant performance boost (see […]
In the animal world, which includes humans, there are many methods of transmitting information to each other. This may be an energetic dance, like that of birds of paradise, indicating the male’s readiness to procreate; it may be a bright color, like the tree frogs of the Amazon, indicating their poisonousness; it could be a canine-like scent that marks boundaries […]
Focus Home Interactive and Blackbird Interactive have announced a joint development of a new game that will be released this year. A new game from the developers of the upcoming Homeworld 3 is being created in a completely new sci-fi universe. The project will be shown at PAX East 2020, which will be held from February 27 to March 1. "Focus Home Interactive, publisher of World War Z, […]
Devolver Digital hinted on its microblog that both parts of the pixel action films Hotline Miami will be released on Xbox consoles. Previously, the series studiously avoided Microsoft consoles. “So, Hotline Miami Collection on Xbox?” - Devolver Digital teases players. The publishing house did not provide any details with its teaser, but the announcement probably won’t be long now. Phil Spencer's team […]
inXile Entertainment has announced that tactical RPG Wasteland Remastered will be released on Xbox One and PC (Steam, GOG and Microsoft Store) on February 25th. The updated version of Wasteland is being developed in collaboration with Krome Studios, the creator of Ty the Tasmanian Tiger. In November 2019, comparative screenshots were published that demonstrate the level of performance of the re-release. Wasteland is the ancestor of many […]
