Shapelez April 14, 2021 at 06:40 PM

Qrator Labs' Value Partnership Programs

• Qrator Labs corporate blog,
• Information Security,
• Sales management,
• Business Models

Why is it valuable to get into the Qrator Labs partnership program?

In Qrator Labs, we firmly believe that working together brings a better result. Which is the reason why, for years, we were trying to find meaningful partnerships with all kinds of companies. They either seek to provide their existing customers with the top-notch DDoS mitigation technology developed at Qrator Labs with many additional ecosystem solutions or want to succeed the other way around. By getting their product available for Qrator Labs' customers by integrating into the Qrator anycast filtering network.

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Multiple violations of policies in RMS open letter

• Open source,
• GitHub,
• Legislation in IT,
• Social networks and communities,
• Biography of geeks

Shapelez January 14, 2021 at 09:45 AM

10(+) years in the Labs

• Qrator Labs corporate blog,
• History of IT,
• IT-companies

At the beginning of the year 2021, Qrator Labs is celebrating its 10 year anniversary. On January 19 our company marks the official passing of a formal 10 years longevity mark, entering its second decade of existence. 

Everything started a little bit earlier - when at the age of 10 Alex saw the Robotron K 1820 - in 2008, when Alexander Lyamin - the founder and CEO of Qrator Labs, approached the Moscow State University superiors, where he worked as a NOC engineer at the time, with an idea of a DDoS-attack mitigation research project. The MSU's network was one of the largest in the country and, as we know now, it was the best place to hatch a future technology.

That time MSU administration agreed, and Mr Lyamin took his own hardware to the university, simultaneously gathering a team. In two years, by summer 2010, the project turned out to be that successful. It courted the DDoS attack of a bandwidth exceeding the MSU's upstream bandwidth capability. And on June 22 MSU superiors gave Mr Lyamin a choice - to shut down or find money to incorporate.

Alexander Lyamin chose to incorporate with his own means, which effectively meant that the needed infrastructure must be built from scratch. The initial design should be distributed instead of concentrated within one network, which resources were not enough for this specific task. And by September 1, 2010, those first server sites were ready and running.

Flashback with us

Shapelez March 19, 2020 at 06:43 PM

Turns out internet businesses are sustainable during pandemics. Why? Home Office DNA

• Qrator Labs corporate blog,
• Personnel Management,
• IT career,
• Health

“In 1665, Cambridge University closed because of the plague. Issac Newton decided to work from home. He discovered calculus & the laws of motion.”

We live in a truly remarkable moment. With the year 2020 and the COVID-19 outbreak employees all over the world are staying home for quarantine, trying their best to sustain the normal flow of life, which means continue working. And this is something new compared to all the previous infectious pandemics humanity has survived through — this time we have the Internet.

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EdT March 13, 2020 at 11:33 AM

Self-Development: How I Couldn't Wear Two Hats and Found Third One

• Mail.ru Group corporate blog,
• Development Management,
• Project management,
• GTD,
• Brain

Hi all! I lead antispam team and several machine learning teams at Mail.ru Group. The subject of this article is self-development for team leads/managers. But in reality many techniques and recipes do not depend on the role at all. This really concerns me because machine learning is developing extremely fast, and it takes a lot of time to stay up to date. So the question about what should be done for development and how is quite topical.

Of course, the content of this article is not the ultimate truth but just a description of the results of my continuing quest. It tells about approaches based on books and workshops, trials and errors, which have worked for me. It'll be good to have a discussion with you in comments.

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sochix February 24, 2020 at 01:41 PM

Google Interviewing Process for Software Developer Role in 2020

• IT career

Hello! I just finished interviewing with Google and wanted to quickly catch you up on some interesting and frustrating steps of the process so that you can understand what to expect from Google interviews and the steps involved. I will also share some tips on how to prepare for the interview and mistakes to avoid.

If you’re looking for a success story, this is the wrong post for you. I actually failed the interviewing process, but the whole experience was pretty interesting for me and leads me on to another stage of my career. I will share more details on this at the end of the post. All names and identifying details have been changed to protect the privacy of Google employees.

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itmo February 18, 2020 at 03:56 PM

Inside ITMO University: The robotics lab

• ITMO University corporate blog,
• Robotics development,
• Studying in IT,
• Robotics,
• Offices of IT companies

The Department of Computer Science and Control Systems at ITMO University houses a robotics lab. In this article we’ll take a look at the projects its staff is working on, and show you the machinery on site: industrial manipulator robots, robotic hands and dynamic positioning system testing equipment.

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itmo January 26, 2020 at 12:55 PM

Weekend Picks: light reading for STEM majors

• ITMO University corporate blog,
• Studying in IT,
• Reading room,
• Popular science,
• Science fiction

The weekend is upon us, and so is the paralysis that comes with having nothing to do. Fear not, our editorial team picked 9 books on science and tech worth picking up on a cold winter day. You’ll learn about the history of space exploration, join a physicist on a surprisingly science-appropriate hike, and more.

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baragol December 16, 2019 at 04:46 PM

Chronicle of Rambler Group and Nginx confrontation (updated on 23 Dec, 12 p.m.)

• Nginx,
• Legislation in IT,
• Finance in IT

• Translation

On December 12, it became known from Nginx's employee Twitter that the company's office was searched due to the criminal case under Article 146 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation 'Violation of Author's and Neighboring Rights'. The claim belong to Rambler Group was, although formally the complaintant is Lynwood Investments CY Ltd, to which the rights were transferred. The last-mentioned is related to the co-owner of Rambler Group, Alexander Mamut.

The point of the claim: Igor started working on Nginx as an employee of Rambler and only after the tool became popular he founded a separate company and attracted investments.

Here is how the events unfolded.

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baragol December 12, 2019 at 05:34 PM

Nginx's office is being searched due to Rambler Group's lawsuit. The complaintant press service confirmed the suit

• Nginx,
• Legislation in IT,
• Offices of IT companies,
• Finance in IT

• Translation

According to one of the employees Nginx's Moscow office is being searched due to the criminal case brought by Rambler Group (the official response of the company's press office to this issue and confirmation of claims against Nginx is below). The photo of the search warrant is provided as the evidence of the criminal case initiated on December 4, 2019 under Article 146 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation 'Violation of Author's and Neighboring Rights'.

Nginx search warrant

It is assumed the complaintant is Rambler, and the defendant is still an 'unidentified group of persons', and in the long run — the founder of Nginx, Igor Sysoyev.

The point of the claim: Igor started working on Nginx as an employee of Rambler and only after the tool became popular he founded a separate company and attracted investments.

It is not clear why Rambler revised its 'property' only 15 years later.

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Andrey2008 October 4, 2019 at 09:59 AM

For professors' note: use PVS-Studio to get students familiar with code analysis tools

• PVS-Studio corporate blog,
• Programming,
• Perfect code,
• Studying in IT

Our support chats and some other indirect signs showed that there are many students among our free users. Here's the reason: PVS-Studio is now more often used by professors in courses related to software development. We are very pleased with this, and we decided to write this small article to fall under notice of other teachers. We are pleased that students become acquainted with the methodology of static code analysis in general and the PVS-Studio tool in particular. Our team will try to contribute to this trend.

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veneramuholovka October 2, 2019 at 05:00 AM

How to protect your ERP system?

• Digital Security corporate blog,
• Information Security,
• ERP-systems

Andrey2008 September 12, 2019 at 02:23 PM

Handling Objections: Static Analysis Will Take up Part of Working Time

• PVS-Studio corporate blog,
• IT systems testing,
• Programming,
• Development Management

Talking to people at conferences and in comments to articles, we face the following objection: static analysis reduces the time to detect errors, but takes up programmers' time, which negates the benefits of using it and even slows down the development process. Let's get this objection straightened out and try to show that it's groundless.

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ValeryKomarov September 11, 2019 at 10:04 AM

Configuration of the Warnings Next Generation plugin for integration with PVS-Studio

• PVS-Studio corporate blog,
• IT systems testing,
• IT Infrastructure,
• Development Management,
• DevOps

The PVS-Studio 7.04 release coincided with the release of the Warnings Next Generation 6.0.0 plugin for Jenkins. Right in this release Warnings NG Plugin added support of the PVS-Studio static code analyzer. This plugin visualizes data related to compiler warnings or other analysis tools in Jenkins. This article will cover in detail how to install and configure this plugin to use it with PVS-Studio, and will describe most of its features.

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AnnaVoshkarina September 3, 2019 at 05:28 PM

How to get the team to search for more productive ideas

• Agile,
• Design,
• Presentations,
• Brain

The creation of design models as well as visualization of solutions is for some reason always a subject of great interest among all members of a productive team, be it a manager eager to master Sketch, or a developer who wants to make cool interfaces without the need to go to a designer. But we all know what happens when it comes to actually doing stuff.

My way

Hi, everybody!

My name is Anna and I work for an American company Scentbird NY as a product designer. Prior to that I was involved in developing flagship products in Alfa-Bank design team.

I was probably born under a lucky star but all my life I've been working with the developers who suggest the best product solutions, better than a lot of product managers and product owners. But anyway, my observation is that the earlier you involve developers into working on a particular task, the better off you are.

What you are about to read is actually a blueprint on how to conduct brainstorm sessions and generate not-so-obvious yet effective solutions, which are apparently really easy to reach and not that time-consuming.

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Pavel_Ku August 30, 2019 at 09:47 AM

12 Soft Skills That Make IT Project Managers Unstoppable

• Hygger corporate blog,
• Project management,
• Product Management,
• Personnel Management

The increasingly competitive job market demonstrates that performing only based on hard skills alone is no longer sufficient. In project management reality, hard skills contain creating work breakdown structures, managing a project budget, earned value assessments and critical path charts. All these skills require technical background and applying professional knowledge and tools to perform well. What are the soft skills of leadership and how they help to uncover project managers' facilities?

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vcs_su August 29, 2019 at 03:08 PM

A Brief History of Video Conferencing: From the Beginning to Full Commercial Use

• History of IT,
• Old hardware,
• Video equipment,
• IT-companies,
• Video conferencing

Video conferencing systems, so familiar to us today, have come a long way — more than a hundred years passed from fantastic ideas inspired by belief in unstoppable technical progress to the first mass implementation of video conferencing systems. A lot of dramatic events have come along the way. The way to success wasn’t easy at all.

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Pavel_Ku August 26, 2019 at 04:46 PM

10 Books on Agile Project Management Worth Taking With You in 2020

• Hygger corporate blog,
• Project management,
• Agile,
• Product Management

• Translation

Books with the word «Agile» in their titles began to appear on the shelves of IT experts and other industries' professionals after 2001. The term was used during the declaration of the Agile Software Development Manifesto. Agile describes a software development methodology that is characterized by short life cycles leading to frequent product releases.

Today this iterative or incremental method affects various aspects of development and business including project management. What are the best sources to learn Agile? This post covers 10 powerful books that may enhance the skills of project managers and their teams.

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SergKremen1984 August 12, 2019 at 03:20 PM

Machine Learning and Theory of Constraints

• Machine learning,
• Web analytics,
• Product Management,
• Business Models

imjenniferatkin August 12, 2019 at 02:13 PM

Uber & Careem merger: How the emerging taxi hailing services will affect in MENA region?

• Development of mobile applications,
• Start-up development,
• Business Models,
• Software

Managing your competition is an important skill that you need to have as a company. The management of competition can either be done by letting go of a market because it is too much to handle. You can also consider either selling yourself to a competition in a particular local market or acquiring them. Different companies adopted varied strategies according to the moment’s and the market’s demands.

Focus on Uber

Uber needs no introduction as a corporate or as a service provider. It has become synonymous with on-demand cab services and is slowly progressing towards providing many other services in the same fashion.

The phrase ‘Let's book an Uber’ has become common. In a decade, Uber has gained the status of a monopoly and has marked a prominent presence in more than 70 countries ever since its inception in 2009. However, it hasn't always been a bed of roses for Uber.

Uber has faced a lot of legal issues, some of them because of the legislature of the country, local drivers and passengers.

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