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Solid state SSD review for enterprise users Kingston DC500R

Kingston recently launched the Kingston DC500R enterprise solid state drive designed for heavy continuous workloads. Now many journalists are actively testing the novelty and producing interesting materials. We want to share with Habr one of the detailed reviews of the Kingston DC500R, which readers will enjoy testing. The original is on the Storagereview website and published in English. For your convenience, we […]

Cisco Hyperflex for high-load DBMS

We continue the series of articles about Cisco Hyperflex. This time we will introduce you to the work of Cisco Hyperflex in conditions of highly loaded Oracle and Microsoft SQL DBMS, and also compare the obtained results with competitive solutions. In addition, we continue to demonstrate the capabilities of Hyperflex in the regions of our country and are pleased to invite you to visit the next demonstrations of the solution, which […]

CRM++

There is an opinion that everything multifunctional is weak. Indeed, this statement looks logical: the more interconnected and interdependent nodes, the higher the likelihood that with the failure of one of them, it will lose its merits and the entire device. We all have repeatedly encountered such situations in office equipment, cars, gadgets. However, in the case of software […]

Who are data engineers and how do they become one?

Hello again! The title of the article speaks for itself. On the eve of the start of the "Data Engineer" course, we propose to figure out who data engineers are. The article has a lot of useful links. Happy reading. A simple guide on how to catch the wave of Data Engineering and not let it drag you into the abyss. One gets the impression that nowadays every […]

How do they do it? Overview of Cryptocurrency Anonymization Technologies

Surely you, as a user of bitcoin, ether or any other cryptocurrency, were concerned that anyone could see how many coins you have in your wallet, to whom you transferred them and from whom you received them. There is a lot of controversy surrounding anonymous cryptocurrencies, but one cannot disagree on one thing - as Monero project manager Riccardo Spagni said […]

Confidential transactions in Monero, or how to transfer who knows what to who knows where

We continue our series about the Monero blockchain, and today's article will be devoted to the RingCT (Ring Confidential Transactions) protocol, which introduces confidential transactions and new ring signatures. Unfortunately, there is little information on the Internet about how it works, and we tried to fill this gap. We will talk about how the network uses this protocol to hide […]

About anonymity in account-based blockchains

We have long been interested in the topic of anonymity in cryptocurrencies and try to follow the development of technologies in this area. In our articles, we have already analyzed in detail the principles of confidential transactions in Monero, and also conducted a comparative review of the technologies that exist in this field. However, all anonymous cryptocurrencies today are built on the data model proposed by Bitcoin - […]

How to enable micro-payments in your application

I spent the last week developing my first public program - a Telegram bot that works as a Bitcoin wallet and allows you to "throw coins" to other participants in group chats, as well as make external Bitcoin payments to yourself or others so-called. Lightning Apps. I mean that in general the reader is familiar with Bitcoin and Telegram, because I will try to write briefly, without going into details. […]

13. Check Point Getting Started R80.20. Licensing

Hello friends! And we finally got to the last, final lesson of Check Point Getting Started. Today we will talk about a very important topic - Licensing. I hasten to warn you that this lesson is not an exhaustive guide to choosing equipment or licenses. This is just a summary of the key points that any Check Point administrator should know. If you are really puzzled by the choice […]

Introducing Windows Terminal

Windows Terminal is a new, modern, fast, efficient, powerful and productive terminal application for users of command line tools and shells such as Command Prompt, PowerShell and WSL. Windows Terminal will ship through the Microsoft Store on Windows 10 and will be updated regularly to ensure you're always up to date with the latest […]

Programmers' misconceptions about naming

Two weeks ago, HabrΓ© published a translation of "Programmers' delusions about time", which in its structure and style is based on this classic text by Patrick Mackenzie, published two years ago. Since the note on time was extremely favorably received by the audience, it obviously makes sense to translate the original article on names and surnames as well. John Graham-Cumming today complained […]