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Crossover Hiring Process – How it was

In October last year I landed a job at Trilogy Enterprises which hires solely via Crossover. I was thinking about writing an article on my experiences regarding Crossover hiring process ever since, so finally here we go. A bit of history Actually it was my third try to land a job via Crossover – XO…

Why is there a big pay discrepancy between different software engineers?

From a client’s perspective it may be confusing to pick up an independent developer. That’s because prices for what seems to be similar work may be drastically different. For instance, it’s not uncommon for web development work to be priced in $20-200/hr range. How so? Why is there a big pay discrepancy between different software…

When to use microservices?

This is a follow up to an earlier article on microservice architecture implementation principles. It was promised back then to get back to the question of “when to use microservices”. A bit of history The overall architecture pattern of microservices was successfully implemented in 2010-ish. That was an endeavor on the part of a few…

Вера современного человека

Вопреки традиционной коннотации “вера” в заголовке не равно “религия”. Я обращаюсь к фразе “вера современного человека” в прямом значении – “убеждение, уверенность в чем-то” – как у Гугла: На мой взгляд в наше время вера в этом значении обрела не меньшее значение, чем она имела несколько веков назад в значении “религия”. Согласись, это малость странно…

Crossover Hiring Process – How it was

Memory Layers Latency Difference

There’s such term as memory hierarchy in computer architecture. In simplistic terms it’s about structuring different memory/storage types based on response time. In software design & architecture memory hierarchy directly affects performance and may make or break design of a particular software system. Memory layers latency difference is very important to software design. Basics of…

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