Category: Blog

An interesting project in a friendly team, or how much does the right employee cost?

Several articles have mentioned phrases like 'IT developers eat too much', with suggested solutions: Interesting tasks that allow skill development in the comfortable environment of Russian organizations are a great counter to the allure of high salaries in the USA and Europe. Well, Dad, what are we having to eat today? Nothing, I'm working on an interesting project with a friendly team. In […]

The PinePhone has been released - a secure Linux smartphone

Pine64 has announced the start of sales for the PinePhone, a free secure smartphone. The smartphone is aimed at those who believe that a person should have complete control over their technology and their life. Anyone who values privacy and dislikes telemetry from Android and iOS is a potential buyer of the PinePhone. It's time to send Big Brother to /dev/null! The first batch sold out like hot cakes, but […]

Mobile browsers Firefox Lite 2.1 and Firefox Preview 3.1.0 are available

The release of Firefox Lite 2.1 has taken place, which is positioned as a lightweight version of Firefox Focus, adapted for low-resource systems and low-speed communication channels. The project is being developed by a team of Mozilla developers from Taiwan and is primarily aimed at distribution in India, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, China, and developing countries. A key distinction of Firefox Lite from Firefox Focus […]

Release of the OneDev collaborative development platform 3.0

A significant new release of OneDev 3.0 is available, a platform for managing the entire software development lifecycle, providing a complete set of tools for project development in accordance with the DevOps paradigm. In its capabilities, OneDev resembles GitLab and also enables deployment of its own infrastructure for collaborative development, review, testing, building, and delivery of releases without reliance on external cloud services, such […]

Functional PowerShell with classes is not an oxymoron, I assure you.

Hello, Habr! I present to you the translation of the article "Functional PowerShell with Classes. I promise it’s not an oxymoron" by Christopher Kuech. Object-oriented and functional programming paradigms may seem incompatible, but both are equally supported in PowerShell. Almost all programming languages, both functional and non-functional, have means of advanced name and value binding; […]

Full Backup with standard Windows tools

As the saying goes, there are two types of admins: those who haven't done a backup yet, and those who already have. So, let's get to work and not associate ourselves with these types. It all started on a fine day when my hard drive failed […]

TOP-25 largest ICOs: what is happening with them now?

We decided to study which ICOs have raised the most funds and what has happened to them currently. The top three leaders are EOS, the Telegram Open Network, and UNUS SED LEO, significantly outpacing the others. Moreover, these are the only projects that have raised over a billion in ICO. EOS is a blockchain platform for decentralized applications and business. The team […]

First release wZD 1.0.0, compact file storage server for small files

The first release of wZD 1.0.0 is available — a server for efficiently storing a large number of files in a compact form, which externally resembles a regular WebDAV server. It uses a modified version of BoltDB for storage. The project's code is written in Go and is distributed under the BSD license. The server significantly reduces the number of small files on regular or clustered file systems, with full support for […]

Dynamic assembly and deployment of Docker images with werf using versioned documentation site as an example

We have shared about our GitOps tool werf multiple times, and this time we would like to share our experience of building a website with the documentation from the project itself — werf.io (its Russian version is ru.werf.io). This is a typical static website, but its assembly is interesting because it is built using a dynamic number of artifacts. Delving into the nuances of the site structure: generating a common menu for […]

Is it possible to hack an airplane?

As you set off for a business trip or holiday, have you considered how safe it is in today's world of digital threats? Some modern airplanes are referred to as computers with wings, reflecting how deeply embedded computer technology is in them. How are they protected from hacks? What can pilots do in such cases? Which other systems might be at risk? This was discussed by an active pilot, captain […]

The most in-demand skills in the data engineer profession

According to 2019 statistics, the data engineer profession is currently experiencing the fastest growth in demand among all professions. Data engineers play a critically important role in organizations by creating and maintaining the pipelines and databases used for processing, transforming, and storing data. What skills do professionals in this field need the most? Does it vary from […]

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