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Why Everyone Is Falling for the AI Pitch

So it’s time for probably the most useless article on this blog ))) It’s been more than two months since the last article, and I can’t get my … stuff together to write another one. Why everyone is falling for the AI pitch? Let’s vent a little for a change. Everyone is a Celebrity Today’s…

Code Modularity: Practical Tips

For a while, I’ve been a core contributor and maintainer of an internal project at the company I now work for. Code modularity is a desired trait for any codebase which is not dead. For context, the project is written in Python. As you may guess from my other articles here, Python is a language…

Why Everyone Is Falling for the AI Pitch

Halting problem в 3-х ипостасях

Термин halting problem обычно вспоминают как «ту самую» теоретическую границу вычислений: нельзя написать программу, которая для любой другой программы и любого входа заранее решит, завершится ли вычисление или уйдёт в бесконечный цикл. Но если посмотреть на индустриальные системы — от микросервисов до агентных пайплайнов с LLM — то «проблема остановки» неожиданно перестаёт быть абстракцией. Она…

NFR Conflicts: 3 practical cases

Over time I noticed some typical contradictions between non-functional requirements (NFR). Let’s consider three typical cases of NFR conflicts I learned from practice. Security vs Ease of Use Security is a huge and ever growing concern these days. No surprise here – we live when IT-systems are unprecedentedly dependable. More and more activities occur in…

Max Performance of Nginx, PHP & PostgreSQL Chain

This blog post is the first in a series of articles on performance engineering (PE) research I did some time ago. I touched the topic of PE a bit in one of previous blog articles. This time it’ll be purely practical. The picture was generated by Nano Banana and contains pretty obvious errors. I decided…

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