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- Databases & data4 min
MongoDB Schema Design: Embedding vs Referencing
Embed data that is read together and bounded in size, reference data that is shared, large or grows without limit, and design the schema around your most frequent queries.
Practice - Hosting & cloud4 min
Google Workspace vs Microsoft 365 vs Yandex 360 for Business Email
Google Workspace is the easiest start for a small team, Microsoft 365 is stronger on management and security and fits if you work in Office, and Yandex 360 suits CIS-focused teams; whichever you pick, keep your domain and DNS under your own control so you can move later.
Practice - IT careers4 min
How to Become a Software Architect: Skills and Career Path
A software architect makes and explains the decisions that are expensive to change later; you grow into the role from senior engineering by owning cross-team technical decisions, analysing trade-offs openly and documenting them so others can follow.
Advanced - Tools & no-code4 min
Google Sheets vs Excel: Differences and When to Use Each
Use Google Sheets for collaboration, forms, integrations and moderate data volumes, and Excel for heavy analysis, large files, Power Query and reliable offline work.
Basics - IT by industry4 min
Electronic Document Flow in Uzbekistan: How to Set It Up
To work with electronic documents in Uzbekistan, a company needs an e-signature key, an account with an EDI operator such as Didox or Faktura.uz, and clean reference data; integrating with 1C and CRM removes manual entry and most errors.
Practice - Networks & office IT3 min
Managed vs Unmanaged Switch: Which One Your Office Needs
An unmanaged switch just connects devices, while a managed one lets you split the network into segments (VLANs), prioritise traffic and see what's happening; you need one as soon as the office has guest Wi-Fi, IP phones, cameras or several switches.
Basics - IT for business3 min
How to Define MVP Scope Using Feature Prioritization
Map one key user journey from problem to result, sort features with MoSCoW and keep only the Must items in the MVP — everything without which that journey breaks.
Practice - Web development4 min
Express vs NestJS vs Fastify: Choosing a Node.js Framework
Express is the simple, flexible choice for small services, Fastify is fast with built-in schema validation, and NestJS offers a strict modular architecture for large teams and long-lived projects.
Practice - SEO3 min
How to Add a Site to Google Search Console and Use It
Add a Domain property via a DNS record, submit your sitemap, then regularly check the Performance, Pages and Core Web Vitals reports and inspect important URLs with the URL Inspection tool.
Practice - DevOps4 min
Forward Proxy vs Reverse Proxy: What Is the Difference
A forward proxy sits in front of clients and sends their requests out to the internet on their behalf; a reverse proxy sits in front of servers and receives requests from the internet on their behalf.
Basics - AI & automation3 min
ChatGPT vs Claude vs Gemini: Which AI Assistant to Choose
All three assistants are strong and keep catching up with each other, so choose by your task and ecosystem: test them on 5-10 of your real requests, including Russian and Uzbek, and compare the results.
Basics - Programming4 min
Advanced Git: Interactive Rebase, Cherry-Pick and Bisect
Interactive rebase rewrites your local commits (squash, reword, reorder), cherry-pick copies a single commit to another branch, and bisect uses binary search to find the commit that broke the code.
Advanced - Mobile development4 min
What Is a Hybrid App: Capacitor, Ionic and WebView Wrappers
A hybrid app is a web interface inside a native shell with a WebView; it ships fast from existing web code but feels less responsive than native and risks store rejection if it only mirrors a website.
Basics - Marketing & analytics3 min
How to Set Up Google Analytics 4 on Your Website
Create a GA4 property and web data stream, install the tag with gtag.js or Google Tag Manager, review enhanced measurement, extend data retention to 14 months, exclude internal traffic and link GA4 to Google Ads.
Practice - Design & UX3 min
Figma Variables and Modes for Themes and Brands
Figma variables store color, number, string and boolean values, and modes give each variable several values. Split primitives, brands and themes into separate collections, bind components only to semantic variables, and switching a theme or brand becomes a single mode change.
Advanced - Telegram & messengers4 min
How to Send Broadcasts to Bot Users Without Hitting Limits
Send broadcasts through a rate-limited queue, wait exactly retry_after on a 429, mark users who return 403 as inactive, and measure results from per-message statuses and link clicks.
Practice - E-commerce & CRM4 min
Fiscal Receipts and IKPU Codes for Online Payments in Uzbekistan
For online payments in Uzbekistan every order line must carry fiscal data such as the IKPU code, package code, VAT rate and price, so these fields have to live in your store catalog before you integrate payments.
Practice - Security4 min
HTTP Security Headers Checklist for Websites
A handful of response headers — HSTS, CSP, X-Content-Type-Options, X-Frame-Options or frame-ancestors, Referrer-Policy, Permissions-Policy plus Secure cookie flags — switch on browser protections against downgrade, clickjacking, MIME sniffing and data leaks at almost no cost.
Practice - Databases & data4 min
How to Back Up and Restore a MySQL Database
For most databases, mysqldump with --single-transaction, run on a schedule and copied to another location, is enough; for large databases and fast restores, use Percona XtraBackup.
Practice - Hosting & cloud4 min
Hosting in Uzbekistan or Abroad: Speed, Law and Price
If your users are in Uzbekistan and you store their personal data, the database holding it must sit on servers inside the country, and local hosting usually gives lower latency too. Foreign clouds win on service range and global reach, so a hybrid setup is often the sensible choice.
Practice - IT careers3 min
How to Become a Tech Lead: Responsibilities and Skills
A tech lead is responsible for the team as a whole making good technical decisions and shipping results, not for writing the most code personally. The path into the role starts with planning, delegation and stakeholder communication while you are still a senior engineer.
Advanced - Tools & no-code3 min
Google Workspace vs Microsoft 365 for Business
Google Workspace is simpler and stronger at real-time browser collaboration, while Microsoft 365 wins where you need full desktop Word and Excel, complex documents and a managed Windows environment.
Basics - IT by industry4 min
Electronic Proof of Delivery: Photos, Signatures and Codes
ePOD replaces the paper delivery note with digital evidence — a photo, signature, code or scan with time and location — that reaches accounting and CRM immediately.
Practice - Networks & office IT4 min
How to Equip a Meeting Room for Video Calls
Choose equipment by room size, invest first in audio and room acoustics, pick a room system or BYOD based on how people actually run meetings, wire the gear to the network and verify everything with a test call.
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