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In “Your Home”, marketers conjured up some kind of hell. Midway through the process, the cashier says, “If you want a 26% discount on school supplies, you need to find out the password at the service center (which is 100m from the cashier) and bring it to me. I ask, do I go now? It’s no trouble for me. Yes, she says, you can go now. I went. The line waited for me a bit. Brought to the cashier the phrase “Your home – all the best in it.” Got a discount of 48 rubles on a nearly 4000 rubles bill. I ask the cashier who came up with such a thing. She answered something about fools.

Soon this should turn into closets. Not much saving, but it’s fun

Morning run, 14 km, 75 min (5.3 min/km). From Bibirevo to Los platform and back.

Is anyone else running the 10k at the “Moscow Marathon” on September 20th?

Now I’ve seen it with my own eyes. Prospekt Mira towards the region, right after VDNKh. On Saturdays, you can no longer drive in the designated lane here.

Found something wonderful – an emulator for Radio-86RK. That was my first computer. In the emulator, at the bottom, there are ‘Load & Run’ buttons where you can load games and programs with just a couple of clicks. Did anyone else have such a challenging childhood, what did you play?

Here’s a catalog of games with screenshots and “Start” buttons – in the JavaScript emulator.

Notice how much you can fit into 8 kilobytes (that’s a million times less memory than a typical modern laptop).

All the games were written in assembler or even directly in machine codes. If you press the letter V in the emulator, you can see a table, which I always had printed out. These are the processor’s instruction codes. It was loaded and saved through a cassette recorder connected to the computer.

From the games, I vividly remember Xonix, Volcano, PVO, KLAD, Chess.

What were your first games?

Funny, Sapsan’s contract for broadcasting TV programs in the carriages has expired, and now passengers can see the picture but can’t hear the sound. At first, I thought something was broken. Turns out that’s how it is.

They would be better off broadcasting old Mosfilm movies that are already in the public domain rather than breaking the service like this.

In the Square of Uprising, entertainment abounds, not a single Caucasian can pass calmly. Hang on the bar for 2 min – 2000 rubles, three – five thousand. Girls stand in the second row, cheering for both their own and others.

The horizontal bar spins, yes.

In Saint Petersburg, there is an unusually tumultuous microloan market. It feels like they were banned in Moscow and all moved here. “Money now”, “money with just a passport”, “borrow until payday”, and so forth.

I’ve been sitting in the Korean restaurant Koreana for five hours now

Conference calls, documents, the staff are used to me, they talk to me and feed me.

It’s quite unusual that right now, there are three tables occupied around me and at all three tables there are Koreans sitting.

There are many Korean restaurants in St. Petersburg. While walking here, I passed two, Seoul and Hon Shi, but they are just fleeting sights.

Got the hang of SAP hybris YaaS – a SOA-based cloud solution for e-commerce. Managed to do some coding and customization. Last week, we launched an Open Beta for the SAP partner community.

An extremely interesting, somewhat trendy, and visually appealing concept.

lightweight storefront @AngularJS + API first + Scalability + EJB/COM + RAML + MQ + Pivotal Web Services / Cloud Foundry

The storefront is an extremely lightweight solution, in the out-of-the-box example it has no server-side scripts at all, it’s built on AngularJS, which is a JavaScript framework. The server side is the yaas.io service, which acts as a container for RESTful API – it proxies requests to real services, hosted on platforms such as pivotal.io, incorporating its own checks. Some of these APIs are offered as hybris-as-a-service, covering both core and e-commerce functions.

Development involves creating custom APIs, publishing them as services in the cloud, and connecting them to each other and to the storefront.

You can subscribe to other people’s APIs, for which there is a marketplace. The market allows you to publish your publicly beneficial APIs and make money from them (not yet possible).

For example, you subscribe your store to an API from the Email library, and voila, you have the cloud capability to send emails, with a corresponding REST interface.

Subscribe your store to a search API – and you have the cloud ability to search your data. There’s a choice between different search engines. Facets are available too.

Created your own service for KLADR address verification – and you earn by others using it.

Of course, connecting any new service requires you to hack the storefront on AngularJS quite substantially, but it’s all documented. Or, add interactions to your own APIs.

Ultimately, the store consists of a lightweight storefront + a set of APIs on different servers, loosely coupled to each other + a lightweight, extensible admin panel on yaas, which interacts with the same APIs for data retrieval/modification. Essentially, there’s no core system – the system consists of many small e-commerce blocks scattered across different domains, servers, clusters (though currently all hosted on the same platform). Each can be individually enhanced.

APIs are hosted on Pivotal.io/Cloud Foundry. There is a convenient mechanism for publishing APIs to the cloud, as well as an easy way to provision resources for it.

API development uses the RAML language, allowing easy expansion of your services with library capabilities, known as RAML traits – “features” that can be applied to new APIs, like adding filtering or paging to APIs that return records sets.

There’s also its own cloud middleware software for MQ, for communication between APIs and external systems like ERP. There’s a mechanism for extending data in the API framework. Data behind the API is handled by MongoDB, but it’s invisible as access to objects is through REST interfaces.

@[658732965:2048:Andrey Tatarinov] there’s something very corporate about it @[1431739380:2048:Grigory Bakunov] @[100001168004708:2048:Erik Babadzhanov]

Apart from the advantages (and I haven’t listed them all), I know the drawbacks. The vendor’s model is not yet fully developed, neither technically nor business-wise. Still figuring out the details. How soon will we implement a system based on this technology? Are there similar themes in the market?