Not only has Covid-19 changed how people work, but also how they spend free time. It’s hard to safely travel or go outside, so many people stay home to read, play board games, and study online courses during their leisure time. Others watch series on Netflix, sleep, and exercise. No one way of leisure is right for everyone. What’s an important thing is spending free time on a balance of activities to achieve the main goal of leisure: to replenish the mental and physical energy that we exert at work.
While work activities vary among the population, one approach to…
The prevailing idea I heard when I worked in a Russian IT outsourcing company was that one needed to work for a certain amount of time to get a raise. It’s a simplistic way to measure one’s work experience. I believe this is an unsustainable approach that weakens a staff’s eagerness to work and slows down a company’s growth.
An experience length-based promotion process is an alluringly low-effort policy for the company that can cause trouble later on. At first glance, it takes only a matrix of how many years one must work to get to middle and senior positions…
I’ve noticed that people who work in software development in Russia have an idea that their university didn’t help them and was not worth attending. They believe this because in Russian culture, the reason for enrolling in universities is to get an education for a future job, yet the first months on the job comprise the actual education. I can’t agree with this idea and see a bigger picture of the implicit role of universities in the future lives of students. …
During the autumn of 2015, I was developing a platform to stream short live video feeds. There were several problems with streaming live video — read further for details. The final solution is a platform with 4 services:
- Live Streaming service
- VOD Streaming service
- Real-time Communication service
- REST API service
TL;DR
Our live videos are short — 20 seconds. Our client App uses RTMP to continuously upload a live video. We use RTMP to stream live videos, too. We do not use transcoding for live streams. The live video latency on the watcher side is 5 seconds. …
