Author: ProHoster

Corporate insecurity

In 2008, I managed to visit one IT company. There was some unhealthy tension in every employee. The reason turned out to be simple: mobile phones - in a box at the entrance to the office, behind the back - a camera, 2 large additional "looking" cameras at the office and control software with a keylogger. And yes, this is not the company that developed SORM or life support systems […]

Hello! The world's first automatic storage of data in DNA molecules

Researchers from Microsoft and the University of Washington have demonstrated the first fully automated and readable storage system for artificially engineered DNA. This is a key step in moving new technology from research labs to commercial data centers. The developers confirmed the concept with a simple test: they successfully encoded the word "hello" in fragments of a synthetic DNA molecule and […]

Five key questions for retail when migrating to our clouds

What questions would retailers like X5 Retail Group, Open, Auchan and others ask when moving to Cloud4Y? These are challenging times for retailers. The habits of buyers and their Wishlist have changed over the past decade. Online competitors are about to step on the tail. Gen Z shoppers want a simple and functional profile to get personalized offers from stores and brands. They use […]

Acer Aspire 7 Laptop with Intel Kaby Lake G Priced at $1500

On April 8, deliveries of the Acer Aspire 7 laptop computer, equipped with a 15,6-inch IPS display with a resolution of 1920 × 1080 pixels (Full HD format), will begin. The laptop is based on the Intel Kaby Lake G hardware platform. In particular, the Core i7-8705G processor is used. This chip contains four computing cores with the ability to simultaneously process up to eight instruction threads. Nominal clock frequency […]

Seven Easy Steps to Become a Computer Science Center Student

1. Choose a program of study CS Center offers full-time evening courses for students and young professionals in St. Petersburg or Novosibirsk. The study lasts two or three years - at the choice of the student. Directions: Computer Science, Data Science and Software Engineering. For residents of other cities, we opened a paid correspondence department. Online classes, the program is designed for one year. 2. Check that […]

5 Key Rules for Conducting Problem Interviews to Identify Consumer Needs

In this article, I talk about the most basic principles of finding the truth in conditions where the interlocutor is not inclined to be completely honest. Most often, you are deceived not for malicious intent, but for many other reasons. For example, due to personal delusions, bad memory, or to not upset you. Often, when it comes to our ideas, we are prone to self-deception. […]

Thanks to Tesla, electric cars in Norway took 58% of the market

Nearly 60% of all new cars sold in Norway this March were all-electric, the Norwegian Road Federation (NRF) said on Monday. This is a new world record set by a country aiming to end fossil fuel car sales by 2025. The exemption of electric vehicles from taxes levied on diesel and gasoline vehicles has turned the car market […]

Google continues to crack down on dangerous Android apps

Google today released its annual security and privacy report. It is noted that despite the increase in the number of downloads of potentially dangerous applications, the overall state of the Android ecosystem has improved. The share of dangerous programs downloaded to Google Play in 2017 during the period under review increased from 0,02% to 0,04%. If we exclude from the statistics information about cases [...]

Bitcoin soared in price to its highest level since November last year

After a few months of lull, the bitcoin cryptocurrency, previously known for its high volatility, suddenly rose in price. The price of the world's largest cryptocurrency surged more than 15% on Tuesday to nearly $4800, the highest level since late November last year, according to CoinDesk. At a certain moment, the cost of bitcoin on the cryptocurrency exchange […]

ASUS ROG Swift PG349Q: gaming monitor with G-SYNC support

ASUS has announced the ROG Swift PG349Q monitor, designed for use in gaming systems. The novelty is made on a concave In-Plane Switching (IPS) matrix. The size is 34,1 inches diagonally, the resolution is 3440 × 1440 pixels. Viewing angles horizontally and vertically reach 178 degrees. The panel boasts 100% coverage of the sRGB color space. Brightness is 300 cd/m2, contrast […]

Our experience in creating API Gateway

Some companies, including our customer, develop the product through a partner network. For example, large online stores are integrated with the delivery service - you order a product and soon receive a tracking number for the package. Another example is when you buy insurance or an Aeroexpress ticket along with your air ticket. For this, one API is used, which must be issued to partners through the API Gateway. This […]

Developing web servers in Golang - from simple to complex

Five years ago I started developing Gophish, which gave me the opportunity to learn Golang. I realized that Go is a powerful language, which is complemented by many libraries. Go is versatile: in particular, you can easily develop server-side applications with it. This article is about writing a server in Go. Let's start with simple things like "Hello world!" and end with an application with […]