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At the beginning of December, I made a fatal mistake and made a turning point in my life as a developer and moved to the Data Engineering (DE) team within the company. In this article I will share some observations that I made during two months of working in the DE team. Why Data Engineering? My journey to DE began in the summer of 2019, when Xneg and I went […]
Top Microsoft experts will discuss the key innovations in SQL Server 2019: SQL Server Big Data Clusters technologies for working with big data and machine learning, Polybase technologies for accessing data from external sources without copying it, container support, and OS support. Linux and many other new features in MS SQL Server 2019! A separate report will be dedicated to […]
A new strain of ransomware encrypts files and appends the “.SaveTheQueen” extension to them, spreading through the SYSVOL system network share on Active Directory domain controllers. Our customers encountered this malware recently. Our full analysis, findings, and conclusions are below. Discovery One of our customers contacted us after they encountered […]
Last year we made a cruel mistake with the DevOps section hall and gave it the smallest room for 30 people. At the reports, the crowd stood along the walls, in the doors and even behind them. At the same time, the section's reports received very high marks. We've learned our lesson: devopsers, you'll have a great, spacious room in the new Congress Hall for the DUMP anniversary. […]
Remember the old cartoon about a hippopotamus who was terribly afraid of vaccinations and ended up getting infectious jaundice? An excellent and instructive cartoon for children who are afraid of one injection, it left behind the scenes the main truth: in the hospital, a patient with jaundice begins a real carousel of injections, both intravenous jet, intravenous drip, and intramuscular. That is, in essence, our big hippopotamus escaped [...]
A couple of years ago I was given the task of designing an outboard ladder for a ship. On every large ship there are two of them: right and left. The steps of the ladder have a clever semicircular shape so that you can stand on them at different angles of inclination of the ladder. The net is hung to prevent fallen people and objects from falling onto the pier or into the water. The working principle of the ladder [...]
We’ll tell you about an inexpensive and secure way to ensure remote employees are connected via VPN, without exposing the company to reputational or financial risks and without creating additional problems for the IT department and company management. With the development of IT, it has become possible to attract remote employees to an increasing number of positions. If earlier among remote workers there were mainly representatives of creative professions, [...]
Turkmenistan is one of the most closed countries in the world. Not as closed as, say, North Korea, but close. An important difference is the public Internet, which a citizen of the country can connect to without any problems. This article talks about the situation with the Internet industry in the country, network availability, connection costs and restrictions imposed by officials. When […]
Hello, Habr. In this article, I want to talk about my experience of creating a training environment for experimenting with microservices. When learning each new tool, I always wanted to try it not only on a local machine, but also in more realistic conditions. Therefore, I decided to create a simplified microservice application, which can later be “hung” with all sorts of interesting technologies. The main […]
Speech Briefing: Nina Kollars, aka Kitty Hegemon, is currently writing a book about the contributions of hackers to national security. She is a political scientist who studies the technological adaptation of users to various cybernetic devices. Collars is a professor in the Department of Strategic and Operational Studies at the Naval War College and has worked in the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress, African American Studies Department […]
Premises access control has always been the most conservative part of the security industry. For many years, private security, watchmen and guards remained the only (and, frankly speaking, not always reliable) barrier to crime. With the development of cloud video surveillance technologies, access control and management systems (ACS) have become the fastest growing segment of the physical security market. The main driver of growth is the integration of cameras with [...]
I built my first websites in the late 90s. Back then, getting them up and running was incredibly simple. There was an Apache server on a shared hosting service, and you could access it via FTP by typing something like ftp://ftp.example.com into your browser's FTP address. Then you'd enter your username and password and upload the files to the server. Those were different times; everything […]