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Domestic drones will help search for missing people in Russia

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The ZALA AERO company, part of the Kalashnikov concern of the Rostec state corporation, will provide unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to the Lisa Alert search and rescue team. We are talking about ZALA 421-08LA drones. These aircraft-type drones can stay in the air for up to an hour and a half, and the flight range reaches 100 km. Communication with the ground station can be maintained within a radius of 20 km. Drones will help search for missing […]

Juul stops selling mint flavored vapes

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Leading e-cigarette manufacturer Juul has announced that it will no longer sell mint-flavored vapes in the United States. That's because two publications this week highlighted the company's role in the surge in popularity of e-cigarettes among middle and high school students in the United States. According to an informant familiar with the company’s financial statements, the share of vapes […]

RabbitMQ vs. Kafka: fault tolerance and high availability

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In the last article, we looked at RabbitMQ clustering for fault tolerance and high availability. Now let's dig deep into Apache Kafka. Here the unit of replication is the partition. Each topic has one or more sections. Each section has a leader with or without followers. When creating a topic, you specify the number of partitions and the replication coefficient. The usual value is 3, which is [...]

Russia can implement a lunar program based on the Vostochny

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It is possible that the Vostochny cosmodrome in the Amur region will serve as a platform for the implementation of the Russian lunar program. Konstantin Nasulenko, deputy director and head of the organizational and administrative department of the branch of the state corporation Roscosmos in Vostochny, announced this possibility, as RIA Novosti reports. Let us remember that the Russian lunar program is designed for several decades. At various stages, exploration of the natural satellite of our planet is planned with […]

Your way out, graph: how we did not find a good network graph and created our own

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Investigating cases related to phishing, botnets, fraudulent transactions and criminal hacker groups, Group-IB experts have been using graph analysis for many years to identify various kinds of connections. Different cases have their own data sets, their own algorithms for identifying connections, and interfaces tailored for specific tasks. All these tools were internally developed by Group-IB and were available only to our employees. […]

Architectural schizophrenia Facebook Libra

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After two years, I returned to the blog for a post that differs from the usual boring lectures about Haskell and mathematics. I've been working on fintech in the EU for the last few years and it seems like a good time to write about a topic that has received little attention from the tech media. Facebook recently released what it calls a “new financial services platform” called Libra. She […]

Secure cloud on the DF Cloud platform 

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Federal Law-152 “On the Protection of Personal Data” applies to all existing entities: individuals and legal entities, federal government bodies and local governments. In fact, this law applies to any organization that processes information and personal data of citizens of the Russian Federation, regardless of the form of ownership and size of the organization. Sometimes an organization, quite unexpectedly for itself, can discover initially implicit information systems of personal […]

Building our own serverless based on Fn

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Serverless computing is one of the most prominent trends in cloud computing. The basic operating principle is that infrastructure is not the concern of DevOps, but of the service provider. Resource scaling automatically adjusts to load and has a high rate of change. Another common feature is the tendency to minimize and focus code, which is why serverless computing is sometimes called “function as a service” […]

What will you choose?

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Hello, Habr! Who to study? Should I go study computer science or become a software engineer? These questions are very relevant in our time. What will you choose? People who are just starting their journey in the IT field and are going to enroll in some technical university or are simply looking for programming training programs, most often come across a huge number of […]

"I'll read it later": the difficult fate of an offline collection of Internet pages

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There are types of software that some people cannot live without, while others cannot even imagine that such a thing exists or that anyone needs it at all. For many years, such a program for me was Macropool WebResearch, which allowed me to save, read and organize Internet pages into a kind of offline library. I'm sure many of our readers get by just fine with a collection of links or a combination of browser and folder […]

How much did developers of different qualifications earn in the first half of 2019

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At the end of July, we published a general report on salaries for the first half of 2019, then we looked at salaries and the popularity of programming languages, and then compared the salaries of developers from different regions, adjusted for the cost of living. Today we continue to deepen our understanding of salaries and look at the salaries of developers of different qualifications. Let's look at the state of salaries in the first half of 2019, [...]

Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs Part 3

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This is the third (final) part of the interview included in the anthology The Playboy Interview: Moguls, which also includes conversations with Jeff Bezos, Sergey Brin, Larry Page, David Geffen and many others. First part. Second part. Playboy: What did you do when you returned? Jobs: The culture shock of returning was stronger than the shock of the trip. Atari wanted me to return […]

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