Alexey Serba

[Soren Iverson @soren_iverson]

LinkedIn show what they actually contributed to a project when they post about it

[Пeрзидент Роисси @KermlinRussia]

Краткое саммари встречи в Овальном кабинете:

[настоящий Низовцев @zimbru_khv]

Как же менты всех пугали в последние дни. Административками и уголовками за значки, аватарки, постики с Навальным. Каждый день всё это уходило в прессу. Стращали как могли.
И ничего не вышло. Огромная бесконечная очередь на могилу. Великие люди! Спасибо

[Konstantin Sonin @k_sonin]

I wonder how easily people take a stance on what's happening with Pavel Durov. Whatever it is, it cannot be a simple story.

1) Durov founded VKontakte, the billion-dollar worth social media network. In Russia, it had an edge over Facebook and others because it was very slow to respect intellectual property rights. Put simply, for years it was a major channel for free downloads of movies, games, and other products.

2) VKontakte was taken from Durov by a classic pincer movement in Putin's Russia. A couple of Putin oligarchs offered to buy VKontakte and used the security services to threaten Durov with arrest, thus lowering the acquisition price. He sold his share and left Russia.

3) An eccentric billionaire and outside of Russia, Durov launched Telegram, a messaging service. It had an edge over competing services because, again, it has been slow to protect intellectual property rights and enforce regulations. (This is what Durov is currently accused of.)

4) In Russia, Telegram has become popular as

- a messaging service for those who do not want the government to read its correspondence. Because of draconian censorship, it has become the only way to publish Op-Eds, columns, etc. for many. That's why so many opposition figures and opinion leaders are buffled with the Durov's arrest.

- a platform for Putin's propagandists. Over the years, the regime has been spending an enormous amount of money boosting all kind of propaganda channels. You can see the frustration of the recipients these day.

- military who used Telegram channels to communicate during the war against Ukraine. As the Russian government failed to create other communication networks for military, this has been the main one. You can see how unhappy they are today.

5) No question that Putin’s secret services and intelligence wanted Durov to give them control over Telegram the same way they got it over VKontakte. Less clear how much he actually yielded. During protests in Bashkorstan a few years, it seemed that FSB was able to use the data. During the Russia-Ukraine war, a popular Ukrainian channel helping Russian soldiers to desert was censored, etc. Given how actively Russian officials work to get to Durov these days, there might be a lot at stake.

What amazes me is how easily commentators take sides in the unfolding story. Every episode described above involved many complicated trade-offs to be resolved.

[LaurieWired @lauriewired]

survival tip that programmers DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW

[Roman Dobrokhotov @Dobrokhotov]

Три года мы расследовали это и наконец нам удалось это доказать: те же ГРУшники из вч 29155, что отравили Скрипаля, калечат американских дипломатов по всему миру секретным оружием: https://t.co/xJJ3J6XRUK

[60 Minutes @60Minutes]

Investigative reporter Christo Grozev believes a top-secret Russian intelligence unit, known as unit 29155, could be behind mysterious health incidents reported by U.S. officials.

[Christo Grozev @christogrozev]

Navalny was finally killed by Putin today.

[John Oliver @iamjohnoliver]

1/2 Here's our story from last night about Elon Musk...https://t.co/bxMcJJyovr

[Maria Pevchikh @pevchikh]

1/16 You've heard a million times that sanctions against Putin's regime don't work. That Putin isn't actually affected by them. That's right because he isn't.The same approach is tried over and over for almost 2 years, yielding no results. How about I suggest something different?

[Jonathan Giles @JonathanGiles]

With Java 21 having virtual threads, how do people see the future of client libraries for web services? Do you want sync-only APIs (that you can spin up virtual threads for), sync and CompletableFutures (no external dep), sync and Reactor/RxJava, async only, or something else?

[Alexey Serba @serba]

@gwenshap @gunnarmorling Waiting for something to disrupt this space with Java 21 / structured concurrency and no mentions of reactive/async anywhere. Helidon Nima?

[Jimmy Lin @lintool]

I'll go on the record with perhaps another contrarian opinion: Lucene HNSW is the future and (pure) vector DB vendors are in trouble. Why?

[Alexey Serba @serba]

@jobergum @milvusio @qdrant_engine Segments in Milvus and Qdrant databases are immutable too ("sealed" in Milvus, "non-appendable" in Qdrant), so it looks really very similar to Lucene segments architecture.

[Alexey Serba @serba]

@jobergum @milvusio @qdrant_engine So it looks like the splitting of an index/graph into segments seems to be the standard design choice across many open source Vector Databases

[Alexey Serba @serba]

@jobergum @milvusio @qdrant_engine has also a concept of segments that are merged / optimized ( https://t.co/xvNZ0wGh3P )

[Tagir Valeev @tagir_valeev]

If somebody conducts a research on AI-assisted productivity in programming, the control group should have rubber ducks. It's like placebo controlled drug testing.

[Jack Vanlightly @vanlightly]

Redpanda bring out benchmark after benchmark claiming performance superiority over Apache Kafka. I decided to run my own tests to see if any of it was true.
https://t.co/hb8euOGYmB

[Gunnar Morling 🌍 @gunnarmorling]

A key responsibility for any senior software engineer: telling appart inherent complexity from accidental complexity, managing the former, and pushing back hard on the latter.