Category: Blog

Bug hunting: How to find 200 bugs in a day

Hello everyone! My name is Yulia, and I am a tester. Last year, I shared information about Bug Cleaning Day — an event held at our company to clean up the bug backlog. It’s a viable way to significantly reduce it (by 10 to 50% in different teams) in just one day. Today, I want to tell you about our spring format of Bug Cleaning Day — […]

Microsoft Defender for Mac has been released

Back in March, Microsoft first announced the release of Microsoft Defender ATP for Mac. Now, after internal testing of the product, the company has announced that it has released a public preview version. Microsoft Defender has added localization in 37 languages, improved performance, and enhanced protection against unauthorized access. You can now submit virus samples through the main interface of the program. There […]

Wrote API — ripped XML (two)

The first API of MyWarehouse appeared 10 years ago. All this time, we have been working on existing versions of the API and developing new ones. Several versions have already been retired. This article will cover a lot: how the API was created, why it’s necessary for a cloud service, what it offers users, the pitfalls we've encountered, and what we want to do next. I will […]

Saving disk space using steganography

When we talk about steganography, people envision terrorists, pedophiles, spies, and at best, crypto-anarchists and various scholars. And indeed, who else would need to hide something from external scrutiny? What benefit could this possibly have for an ordinary person? It turns out there is some. That’s why today we will be compressing data using methods of steganography. And at the end […]

Perl 5.30.0 has been released

A year after the release of Perl 5.28.0, Perl 5.30.0 has been released. Important changes include: support for Unicode versions 11, 12, and the draft version 12.1 added; the upper limit 'n' specified in the regular expression quantifier in the form '{m, n}' has been doubled to 65534; metacharacters in Unicode property value specifications are now partially supported; support for qr’N{name}’ has been added; Perl can now be compiled to […]

The UMIDIGI A5 Pro smartphone with a triple camera — today only at the price of $89

The Chinese electronics manufacturer UMIDIGI introduced the UMIDIGI A5 Pro smartphone during the annual brand sale — the UMIDIGI Fan Festival, held on the AliExpress platform. During the sale, which will last only 24 hours, the new model can be purchased at a significant discount for $89.37 (with a $6 coupon). The UMIDIGI A5 Pro features a 6.3-inch display made of […]

IoT, AI systems, and networking technologies at VMware EMPOWER 2019 — we continue the live broadcast from the event

We discuss the innovations presented at the VMware EMPOWER 2019 conference in Lisbon (we are also streaming on our Telegram channel). Revolutionary networking solutions One of the main topics of the second day of the conference was intelligent traffic routing. Wide Area Networks (WAN) are quite unstable. Users often connect to corporate IT infrastructure using mobile devices through public hotspots, which poses certain risks […]

.NET: Tools for working with multithreading and asynchronous programming. Part 1

I am publishing the original article on Habr, the translation of which is posted in the corporate blog. The need to do something asynchronously, without waiting for immediate results, or to divide large work among several units executing it existed even before computers. With their advent, this need became very evident. Now, in 2019, as I type this article on a laptop with an 8-core processor […]

Release of openSUSE Leap 15.1

On May 22, the new version of the openSUSE Leap 15.1 distribution was released. This version features a completely updated graphics stack. Although this release uses the 4.12 kernel, it has backported support for graphics hardware relevant to the 4.19 kernel (including improved support for the AMD Vega chipset). Starting with Leap 15.1, Network Manager will be used […]

Mushkin Helix-L: NVMe SSD drives with capacities up to 1 TB

Mushkin has released SSDs from the Helix-L series, the first information about which appeared at the January CES 2019 electronics show. The products are made in the M.2 2280 format (22 × 80 mm). This allows them to be used in desktop and portable computers, including ultrabooks. The drives are PCIe Gen3 x4 NVMe 1.3 solutions, utilizing 3D TLC flash memory chips [...].

Performance analysis of a virtual machine in VMware vSphere. Part 1: CPU

If you manage a virtual infrastructure based on VMware vSphere (or any other technology stack), you have probably often heard complaints from users like: "The virtual machine is running slowly!" In this series of articles, I will analyze performance metrics and explain what is causing the slowdowns and how to prevent them. I will examine the following aspects of virtual machine performance: CPU, RAM, DISK, [...].

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