Author: Yuri Gagarin

Structuring Risks and Solutions When Using Big Data for Obtaining Official Statistics

Translator's Preface The material intrigued me primarily because of the table below: Given that statisticians (and Russians, genetically speaking) generally do not favor anything that deviates from linear relationships, these guys managed to push for the use of an activation function in a parabolic form to determine the risk level of using Big Data in official statistics. Well done. Naturally, statisticians added their own […]

"ExtendedPromQL" — decoding the report by Roman Khavronenko

I invite you to read the transcript of Roman Khavronenko's report "ExtendedPromQL". A brief introduction about myself: My name is Roman. I work at CloudFlare, live in London, and I also maintain VictoriaMetrics. I am the author of the ClickHouse plugin for Grafana and ClickHouse-proxy – a small proxy for ClickHouse. We will start with the first part, titled "Translation Challenges," in which I will […]

FAST VP in Unity SAN: How it works.

Today we will discuss an interesting technology implemented in Unity/Unity XT storage systems – FAST VP. If you are hearing about Unity for the first time, you can find the system specifications at the link at the end of the article. I have worked on FAST VP for over a year within the Dell EMC project team. Today, I would like to delve deeper into this technology and reveal some details about it […]

A section with free movies will appear in Google Play.

The Google Play Store digital content store is divided into several sections, one of which is Play Movies & TV (films and TV shows). While many video services offer subscriptions to customers, the Play Store allows for the purchase of individual movies or shows for later viewing. Now, however, online sources indicate that soon […]

The Apache Foundation is celebrating its 21st anniversary.

The non-profit organization Apache Software Foundation is celebrating its 21st anniversary. Initially, the organization was created to provide legal and financial support to developers of the Apache HTTP Server, but it later transformed into a neutral and independent platform for the development of a wide range of open projects that use the Apache license, common development rules, principles of meritocracy, and a unified culture of communication. At the same time, the 25 […]

LLVM 10.0

LLVM is a platform for developing compilers and toolchains under the Apache 2.0 license with exceptions. Some changes in clang: By default, compilation does not run in a new process as before. Support for C++20 concepts has been added. Pointer arithmetic in C and C++ is only allowed within arrays, in accordance with the standards. Corresponding checks have been added in the Undefined Behavior Sanitizer. Improved […]

Search results output and performance issues

One of the typical scenarios in all the familiar applications is searching for data based on certain criteria and displaying it in a readable format. There may also be additional features for sorting, grouping, and pagination. The task is, in theory, trivial, but many developers make a series of mistakes during implementation that negatively impact performance. Let's take a look at various […]

Who is DevOps and when is it not needed?

The topic of DevOps has become very popular in recent years. Many aspire to get into it, but, as practice shows, often only due to salary levels. Some list DevOps on their resumes even though they don't always understand the essence of the term. Others think that by learning Ansible, GitLab, Jenkins, Terraform, and similar tools (the list can go on according to personal preference), they […]

BeeFREE. Moving people to remote work since 2016

Hello! We hope you're reading this post during working hours, already transitioned to remote work by your employer. We managed to shift our employees to remote work fairly quickly for one simple reason - starting in 2016, our strategic remote work project, BeeFREE, has existed, allowing employees to work from home. Below, we will discuss […]

Chrome 83 will introduce a setting to display the full URL in the address bar

Google plans to restore the setting that disables URL distortion in the address bar. A change has been accepted into the codebase that will form the release of Chrome 83, which supports the setting "chrome://flags/#omnibox-context-menu-show-full-urls". When this is enabled, a flag titled "Always show full URLs" will appear in the context menu of the address bar to revert to displaying the full URL. Recall that in Chrome 76 the address bar […]

Firefox Better Web with Scroll - a new monetization model from Mozilla

On March 24, Mozilla announced in its blog that Firefox users could participate in testing the service "Firefox Better Web with Scroll," aimed at a new model for funding websites. The goal of the project is to enable paid subscriptions to fund content creation. This should allow website owners to operate without advertisements. The service is organized in collaboration with the Scroll project. The model looks something like this: […]

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