Let's remember the best. We have been on Habré for 10 years
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Congratulations, we have a person on our team “Everything is f… but”
A hit about how to neutralize a toxic colleague so that he does not spoil the atmosphere in the team, or even turn his superpower to benefit the cause.
How I Almost Got a Virus Trying to Sell Boots
Let's go on a journey called reverse engineering. The author did not sell the boots, but he did talk about the analysis of an obfuscated malicious application on the Android OS.
North, will, hope, a country without borders (c), or How projects are made in harsh Siberian conditions
How are IT infrastructure projects done in Siberia? Frosts down to -55 °C, four-hour daylight, there is a wasteland all around, and there are simply no roads – these are just some of the challenges that our specialists face on projects in harsh conditions.
How to successfully pass any pentest (bad advice)
We tell you with humor that even pentesters, whose work should be interesting and exciting, can suffer from excessive bureaucracy and disloyalty of customers.
How to seat everyone in science and not turn the office into a breeding ground for hatred
Sooner or later in the life of most teams it comes – a move. To avoid headaches, the author of the post wrote a program in Python that can take into account the wishes of colleagues and make (almost) everyone happy.
Australia is not Silicon Valley: why I returned to Moscow six years later
A story about IT emigration to Australia and return to his home country and company. Inside are details of how the Australian IT market differs from the Russian one and what difficulties an IT infrastructure engineer may encounter when moving.
Domestic Linux: who is who?
An overview of domestic operating systems on the market that can be used in a wide range of tasks and equipment – workstations and servers. The post included: AlterOS, ROSA Linux, ALT Linux, Elbrus OS, Atlant OS, Astra Linux and RED OS.
Don’t be afraid to try, or How I became a programmer at the age of well over 18
When you hear the phrase “junior developer,” you imagine a student or graduate, but certainly not a 30-year-old woman with a small child who previously taught at a university for several years. The author of the post explains why she left her position as an assistant professor in IT.
“We need to move from Oracle to PostgreSQL. Just don’t worry!”
The article talked about the feasibility and possibility of migrating from Oracle to the “free” PostgreSQL DBMS. We dealt with this during one project, and at the same time debunked many existing illusions.
Putting a spoke in the wheels of audits, or How to make an IS audit as uncomfortable as possible for the auditor
“1000 and 1 attempt to deceive the auditor”: bad advice on how you can “successfully” pass an audit, receiving a minimum number of comments from the auditor.
10 years on one project: what it looks like for me
Typically, sitting on one project for ten years is considered something of a stagnation in one’s career and professional development. But the author tells how you can become attached to a project and grow in it not only as a technical specialist.
Hold on tight to the steering wheel… Our project to monitor the condition of drivers
To make the roads safer, we have developed software and hardware solutions that monitor the driver’s well-being while driving and, for example, prevent him from falling asleep.
How the profession of an IT engineer will change now, and why being a hellish bore is now an important soft skill
The IT landscape of Russian companies is changing, and with it the requirements for IT engineers are changing. The author explains what has changed in the market and how infrastructure problems are being solved today.
Will they buy it out/won't they buy it out: our ML pilot in Utkonos
ML research for the online hypermarket “Utkonos”, where we predicted the redemption of perishable goods. It turned out that the “mysterious Russian soul” especially craves meat on Saturdays, and values white eggs above brown ones.
“Wrong password”. Password managers through the eyes of a hacker
On pentesting projects, we often manage to gain access to the “victim’s” corporate computer and then extract poorly protected passwords from it. Everyone understands what this leads to, but how such compromise occurs is explained in the post.
Recommender systems: ideas, approaches, tasks
Many people are accustomed to rating a film on Kinopoisk or imdb after watching it, and the sections “Also purchased with this product” and “Popular products” are available in any online store. In this article we tell you what problems recommender systems solve, where to go and what to Google.
A couple of stories about RAID chaos
An article about failures, failures and other failures. The plot centers on troubles with RAID in one “small but proud” data center.
Habro's cookbook: analysis of top cases
Is there a universal recipe for writing an interesting and useful article about a project? The author of the post studied highly rated publications and posts from Technotext participants, sorted them into ingredients and put together a kind of cookbook.
Python for Network Engineers: Getting Started
This article is mainly for network engineers who are not yet familiar or very familiar with Python. We will look at an example script for solving some practical problems, which you can immediately use in your work.
AI for people: in simple words about technology
A comprehensive cheat sheet where we tell you in simple words what artificial intelligence is “made of” and how it all works.
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