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Lecture Series on Modern Cloud Technologies

On April 5, 6, and 7 (Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday), I will give three lectures on modern disruptive cloud technologies for master’s students of the APVT department.

  1. Microservice architecture.
  2. Docker — application containerization.
  3. Swagger (Open API specification) — a specification format for web service APIs.

The lectures will take place on …

Reading 54 Books in a Year

I used to think I read a lot. Well, that’s how it seemed to me. I ordered books on Amazon, read books in the original that hadn’t been translated into Russian and that were impossible to buy here in Ukraine. A trip to the stores never ended without …

On Narrow Fonts in the Interface

The screen area of any smartphone is significantly smaller than that of a laptop or desktop computer. Which means much less information fits on it. Let’s look at an example of a “news feed” type application below:

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The standard Helvetica font is used here. You can see that only …

On Nine-Finger Touch Typing

Students have to type texts on a keyboard very often. That includes preparing reports, term papers, lab assignments, typing program source code, as well as using email and communicating in blogs, forums, and chats. From personal interaction with this contingent, I know that typing any even slightly complex text is …