Month: August 2016

We’ve got a small update on our blog about America. Read about sports in the States, about Lisa and school volleyball.

https://beinginamerica.com/2016/08/08/%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%87%D0%B5%D0%BC%D1%83-%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%86%D1%8B-%D0%BF%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%8F%D1%82-%D0%BF%D0%BE-%D1%82%D1%8B%D1%81%D1%8F%D1%87%D0%B5-%D0%B4%D0%BE/

Today we went tubing down the mountain river, Shenandoah. Tubings are inflatable donuts. I chose the “Tracker,” which is a single-person inflatable boat. Unlike tubing, it has shark-proof protection: a bottom and a paddle that can also be used for rowing. Most of the journey went through small rapids, where it shook quite a bit and splashed around.

All this is located near Harpers Ferry, a historic town in West Virginia. In two of them on white water, i.e., the mountain river, Masha wasn’t allowed: either the height wasn’t right or the weight. Eventually, this weekend I played it smart: bought from a third company, where we hadn’t been yet, online, with a prepayment, carefully following all the stipulations regarding weight and age. In the end, we got in, but our friends, who arrived later without reservations, did not, for the same reason.

I must say, the restrictions are there for a reason: it was challenging.

Ran 10 km in 55:53 mins

Local race. 10 km and half marathon. At least a thousand people. Some on prosthetics.

Sitting in the pool, minding my own business, reading a book. And then this happens! Watch with sound and from the beginning

It turns out that Liza and Masha can’t blow bubbles with gum! Where’s my childhood! The video turned out to be awesome;) they’re learning

I’ve noticed that the advertising on Facebook in the states is almost always interesting. Clearly, they have a lot to choose from here. I end up clicking a lot, especially from my phone. They keep showing many interesting items from Kickstarter.

I also noticed that on YouTube, I often come across ads that I don’t feel like skipping.

For example, I just stumbled upon

https://vimeo.com/127198140

How different the Russian and global markets are, in this regard.

Update on my blog. This time I didn’t wait until Thursday because the results were ready in just one day.

My latest post has a complex title – something like session storage in Redis, but to put it simply, this thing is needed so that if any server of your online store goes down, a customer would not notice: their cart wouldn’t empty, authentication wouldn’t fail, checkout wouldn’t be interrupted.

The crux of the matter is that the data associated with the current user session – i.e., temporary data, are not saved by Hybris anywhere but in memory. And if the server crashes, the data crashes with it. At the very least, a user would need to log in again, which during a sale season always leads to a loss in sales, as many customers simply don’t bother and go to another online store.

In the prototype I demonstrate in the video, the user session does not fail, even if servers are switched (from A to B and back). In real life, they should not change unless the main server crashes.

https://hybrismart.com/2016/08/02/hybris-cluster-redis-session-failover/

I wonder how soon there will be apps capable of applying PRIZMA or Google DeepDream filters in real-time while you’re shooting something with a camera?

I wonder how soon a service will emerge that generates filtered photos of print quality? Perhaps even for a fee?