Category: Blog

Who to trust with the design of technical rearmament and reconstruction projects

Of the ten projects in the Russian industrial market today, only two are new constructions, while the others are related to the reconstruction or modernization of existing facilities. To perform any project work, the client chooses a contractor from among companies, which is quite challenging to compare linearly due to subtle but significant differences in the structure and organization of internal processes. Two main competing forces […]

SeaMonkey 2.49.5

On September 4, SeaMonkey 2.49.5 was released. SeaMonkey is a suite of integrated internet applications, including a web browser, email client, RSS/Atom aggregator, and a WYSIWYG HTML page editor. The 2.49.5 release is synchronized with the code base of Firefox 52.9.0 ESR and Thunderbird 52.9.1 ESR (see corresponding release notes for links). Features: Security-related fixes from the Mozilla Firefox code base have been ported, including […]

The beta version of the Vivaldi browser is available for Android

Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner, one of the creators of Opera Software, is keeping his word. As promised by the visionary founder of another Norwegian browser — Vivaldi, the mobile version of the latter has appeared online by the end of this year and is already available for testing to all Android device owners in Google Play. Regarding the timing of the release of the version […]

Linear regression and methods of its recovery

Source: xkcd Linear regression is one of the fundamental algorithms for many areas related to data analysis. The reason for this is obvious. It is a very simple and understandable algorithm, which contributes to its wide application for many decades, if not hundreds of years. The idea is that we assume a linear dependence of one variable on a set of other variables, and then we try to […]

NewSQL = NoSQL + ACID

Until recently, there were about 50 TB of real-time processed data stored in SQL Server on Odnoklassniki. For such a volume, ensuring fast and reliable, yet fault-tolerant data center access using SQL DBMS is virtually impossible. Usually, in such cases, one of the NoSQL storage solutions is used, but not everything can be transferred to NoSQL: some entities require […]

The code for Telegram Open Network and related P2P and blockchain technologies has been published.

A website has been launched for testing and the source codes of the TON blockchain platform (Telegram Open Network), which has been developed by Telegram Systems LLP since 2017, have been made public. TON provides a set of technologies that enable the functioning of a distributed network for various services based on blockchain and smart contracts. During the ICO, the project attracted over $1.7 billion in investments. The source codes include 1,610 files containing […]

Google has released an open-source library for differential privacy

Google has released a differential privacy library under an open license on its GitHub page. The code is distributed under the Apache License 2.0. Developers will be able to use this library to build a data collection system without gathering information that could identify individuals. "Whether you are a city planning specialist, a small business owner, or a developer […]

Vivaldi Android beta

The developers of the Vivaldi browser, based on the Blink engine and highly customizable (inspired by the Presto era of Opera), have released the beta version of the mobile version of their creation. Among the features they highlight are: the ability to create notes; support for synchronizing favorites, passwords, and notes between devices; taking screenshots of both the visible area of a page and the whole page […]

Chrome includes support for blocking third-party Cookies in incognito mode

In experimental builds of Chrome Canary, the incognito mode now allows blocking all Cookies set by third-party sites, including ad networks and web analytics systems. This mode can be enabled via the flag 'chrome://flags/#improved-cookie-controls' and also activates an extended interface for controlling Cookie setting on sites. After activation, a new icon appears in the address bar, which when clicked shows […]

Release of Mumble 1.3 voice communication platform

After nearly ten years since the last significant release, the Mumble 1.3 platform for creating voice chats, which provide low latency and high-quality voice transmission, has been released. A key application area of Mumble is facilitating communication among players during computer game sessions. The project code is written in C++ and is distributed under the BSD license. Builds are prepared for Linux, […]

Detailed Overview of AWS Lambda

The translation of the article is prepared specifically for students of the 'Cloud Services' course. Interested in developing in this direction? Watch the masterclass by Yegor Zuev (TeamLead at InBit) 'AWS EC2 Service' and join the upcoming course group: starting September 26. More and more people are transitioning to AWS Lambda for scalability, performance, cost-effectiveness, and the ability to handle millions and even trillions of requests per month. […]

Slurm DevOps. Day two. IaC, infrastructure testing, and "Slurm inspires!"

Outside, it’s a classic positive autumn day in St. Petersburg, warm in the Selectel conference room with coffee, Coca-Cola, and almost summer vibes. In the outside world, it’s September 5, 2019, and we are on the second day of the DevOps Slurm. On the first day of the intensive course, we covered the simplest topics: Git, CI/CD. On the second day, we prepared Infrastructure as Code and infrastructure testing for the participants – […]

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