Author: ProHoster

Leaked renderings of OnePlus 8 Lite show similarities with the design of the flagship Samsung Galaxy S11

There are rumors circulating on the Internet that OnePlus is preparing an affordable OnePlus 8 Lite smartphone, designed to replace the mid-level OnePlus X model, which has been released for four years. It is expected that the new product will appear on the market along with the OnePlus 8 and OnePlus 8 Pro smartphones in the second quarter of next year. OnePlus 8 Lite renders published by the famous “hunter […]

PostgreSQL Antipatterns: Harmful JOINs and ORs

Beware of operations that bring buffers... Using a small query as an example, let's look at some universal approaches to optimizing queries in PostgreSQL. Whether you use them or not is up to you, but it’s worth knowing about them. In some subsequent versions of PG the situation may change as the scheduler becomes smarter, but for 9.4/9.6 it looks approximately the same, as in the examples here. Let’s take a very real query: SELECT […]

In the long term, Western Digital does not rule out the use of HAMR technology

For a long time, WDC opposed the use of laser-assisted magnetic plate heating (HAMR) technology, which was actively but not very successfully promoted by rival Seagate Technology. Western Digital Corporation relied on MAMR - the technology of microwave exposure to a magnetic plate in order to increase recording density. Now company representatives admit that linking to one or another [...]

Kubernetes 1.17: Highlights of what's new

Yesterday, December 9, the next release of Kubernetes took place - 1.17. According to the tradition that has developed for our blog, we talk about the most significant changes in the new version. Information used to prepare this material was taken from the official announcement, the Kubernetes enhancements tracking table, CHANGELOG-1.17 and related issues, pull requests, and Kubernetes Enhancement Proposals (KEP). So, what's new?.. Routing with […]

Take Care of Your Dongles: Logitech Keyboard Receiver Safety Study

Historically, most employees use wireless keyboards and mice from Logitech. Entering our passwords once again, we, the specialists of the Raccoon Security team, asked ourselves: how difficult is it to bypass the security mechanisms of wireless keyboards? The study revealed architectural flaws and software errors that allow access to input data. Below the cut is what […]

Introduction to SSD. Part 1. Historical

Studying the history of disks is the beginning of the journey to understanding the principles of operation of solid-state drives. The first part of our series of articles, “Introduction to SSDs,” will take a tour of history and allow you to clearly understand the difference between an SSD and its closest competitor, the HDD. Despite the abundance of various devices for storing information, the popularity of HDDs and SSDs in our time is undeniable. Difference between […]

Top 10 Microsoft Courses in Russian

Hello, Habr! Just recently we published the first part of a series of collections of useful training courses for programmers. And then the last fifth part crept up unnoticed. Here we have listed some of the most popular IT courses that are available on our Microsoft Learn learning platform. All of them are, of course, free. Details and links to courses are under the cut! Course topics in this […]

Top IT outsourcing trends beyond 2020

Organizations outsource IT infrastructure maintenance for a variety of reasons, from the desire for increased operational agility to the need to gain new specialized skills and cost savings. However, market trends are changing. According to a report from GSA UK, some outsourcing trends will become less significant in the future. It is expected that such changes will become noticeable in 2020. Companies […]

In which countries and cities are developers earning more when taxes and cost of living are taken into account?

If we compare the salary of a middle-qualified software developer in Moscow, Los Angeles and San Francisco, taking the salary data that the developers themselves leave on specialized salary monitoring services, we will see: In Moscow, the salary of such a developer at the end of 2019 is 130 rub. per month (according to the salary service on moikrug.ru) In San Francisco - 000 […]