Fail. Learn. Repeat.

This year I’ve been designing homework assignments for an ML course at Skoltech (Russia’s answer to MIT/Caltech for science and technology).

We are reading “Ultra-scale playbook”.

TL;DR This summer I did not get into any of a bunch of research programs and schools.

Anthropic – those dudes behind Claude.

For 7 years I happily played with web.

Once upon a time, there was a boy who loved building websites.

Did you always think various “talent” immigration programs imply a Nobel prize?

I’ll tell you: How I got into Georgia Tech’s Online Master of Science in Computer Science (OMSCS) program while working and living in Russia.

Yet another story of how an ordinary guy from the middle of nowhere in Russia managed to get multiple FAANG offers.

Recently, at Hazelcast we have migrated our Management Center to TypeScript.

So, you have decided to move your ass someplace else, seeking a better life.

Large scale equals distributed.

Have you heard about “lifting state up”?

node-config has been serving the Node.js community as pretty much the default config solution for many years.

How many times did you write logger.info('ServiceName.methodName.') and logger.info('ServiceName.methodName -> done.') for each and every method of your service you wanted to log?

What’s nagging you the most when you think about logging in NodeJS?

What are we gonna cover here?

What are we gonna cover here?

A tale of how we thoughtlessly used a boilerplate with a whole arsenal of dependencies for a project, which nobody used in the end, how it haunted us after, when Edge support was requested, and how we heroically resolved what we had broken before.