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The faster the development process, the faster the technology company grows. Unfortunately, modern applications work against us - our systems must be updated in real time without disturbing anyone or causing downtime or interruptions. Deploying to such systems becomes challenging and requires complex continuous delivery pipelines even for small teams. […]
I have been developing web applications for a long time. A long time ago. I created my first web applications in the Lotus Domino environment at a time when the word “google” was not yet a verb, and people used Yahoo! and Rambler. I used Infoseek - they had a narrowing search and not such an ugly overloaded interface as […]
As you know, indexes play an important role in a DBMS, providing a quick search to the required records. That’s why it’s so important to service them in a timely manner. Quite a lot of material has been written about analysis and optimization, including on the Internet. For example, this topic was recently reviewed in this publication. There are many paid and free solutions for this. For example, there is […]
On November 30, 2010, David Collier wrote: I noticed that in busybox the links are divided into these four directories. Is there some simple rule to determine in which directory which link should be located... For example, kill is in /bin, and killall is in /usr/bin... I don’t see any logic in this division. You, […]
We are publishing a report on salaries in the IT industry for the first half of 1. The report is based on data from the My Circle salary calculator: in which more than 2019 salaries were collected during this period. Let's look at current salaries for all major IT specializations, as well as their dynamics over the past six months, both in general and in the main regions: Moscow, St. Petersburg, other […]
Note trans.: We present to your attention technical details about the reasons for the recent downtime in the cloud service maintained by the creators of Grafana. This is a classic example of how a new and seemingly extremely useful feature designed to improve the quality of infrastructure... can cause harm if you do not provide for the numerous nuances of its application in the realities of production. It’s great when materials like this appear that allow you to learn not only [...]
I recently discovered this article: Difference between bin, sbin, usr/bin, usr/sbin. I would like to share my view on the standard. /bin Contains commands that can be used by both the system administrator and users, but which are necessary when no other file systems are mounted (for example, in single-user mode). It may also contain commands that are used indirectly by scripts. There […]
A year ago, NVIDIA introduced the first video cards with support for hardware acceleration of ray tracing, after which games that use this technology began to appear on the market. There are not too many such games yet, but their number is growing steadily. According to NVIDIA research scientist Morgan McGuire, around 2023 there will be a game that […]
The lightweight web browser Midori 9, developed by members of the Xfce project based on the WebKit2 engine and the GTK3 library, has been released. The browser core is written in the Vala language. The project code is distributed under the LGPLv2.1 license. Binary assemblies are prepared for Linux (snap) and Android. The generation of builds for Windows and macOS has been discontinued for now. Key innovations of Midori 9: The start page now displays icons […]
Google researchers have discovered six vulnerabilities in iOS software, one of which has not yet been fixed by Apple developers. According to online sources, the vulnerabilities were discovered by Google Project Zero researchers, with five of the six problem areas being fixed last week when the iOS 12.4 update was released. The vulnerabilities discovered by the researchers are “non-contact”, meaning they […]
Google has unveiled the release of the Chrome 76 web browser. At the same time, a stable release of the free Chromium project, which serves as the basis of Chrome, is available. The Chrome browser is distinguished by the use of Google logos, the presence of a system for sending notifications in case of a crash, the ability to download a Flash module on request, modules for playing protected video content (DRM), a system for automatically installing updates, and transmitting RLZ parameters when searching. The next release of Chrome 77 […]
In March, developers from the Russian studio Battlestate Games presented the first episode of the live-action Raid series, based on the multiplayer shooter Escape from Tarkov. This video turned out to be quite popular - at the moment it has already been watched by almost 900 thousand people on YouTube. After 4 months, fans of the game got the opportunity to watch the second episode: The video talks about […]
