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In February 2024, Tencore started as a team of mechanical engineers with the aim of helping the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Within a month, they had assembled the first 10 TerMIT combat robots, which now help evacuate the wounded, conduct reconnaissance, destroy the enemy, and deliver cargo for more than 20 brigades of the Defense Forces. Today, Tencore is one of the flagships of the market for ground robotic complexes, which consists of 95% Ukrainian components and has attracted a record public investment round in the NRC sector. dev.ua spoke with Tencore co-founder and director Maksym Vasylchenko about the role of NRC on the front, how the company managed to achieve rapid progress, and about interaction with the state.

Frontend Developer Oleh Erokhin shared that he was not paid compensation for November and December 2024 while working for the IT company Miteyda. The IT worker’s attempts to resolve this issue with his former employer, according to him, ended in nothing, and now he is seriously considering the option of going to court. The only nuance is that the company operates in the legal field of Germany, as its head office is located in the city of Aachen.

Documentation in QA is the foundation of effective software testing, and often includes test plans, detailed test case descriptions, bug reports, requirements tracking matrices, and other artifacts. Creating and maintaining it is often time-consuming and error-prone. Fortunately, advances in artificial intelligence can help reimagine documentation processes, reducing the time spent on routine and tedious tasks.§

Hello! It’s #vsrativakansii again. A new selection of trashy job offers as usual on Friday’s broadcast. Today we’ll talk about the most demanding candidate who gives orders to the recruiter even before the interview, the driver-designer, the game developer-barista and the strange tests at the end of vacancies that candidates don’t notice.

Telegram allows online casinos to be advertised in Ukrainian TG channels. For this, it uses its sponsored message function. Channel owners have almost no influence on this. As a result, popular TG media have slots and calls to play at the end of the feed.

When you go to Djinni or DOU and see the phrase «Juniors are not needed,» you want to break down the door. Seriously? Are you doing so well that there’s no point in training new specialists? I’m not romanticizing — I’ve been working in IT for over 20 years, managed teams at Ciklum, Luxoft, NetCracker, created a school that teaches practice rather than theory. And here’s an honest and unvarnished explanation of why the role of a junior developer still makes sense, and why the idea of «junior developers being a burden» often hurts businesses more than it helps.

Olga Grabovska is a web designer with a keen marketing sense who turned personal frustration on her birthday into a full-fledged startup. Using her own money and without investors, she created the mobile application Bazhay!. In a conversation with dev.ua, Olga spoke about the wishes and gifts service, which already has its first advertisers and ambitions to enter the global market.

In a conversation with dev.ua, some representatives of the technology market outlined the problem: according to them, Google advertising for the B2B segment, regardless of the budget, has practically ceased to bring benefits and bring targeted leads to the business. Instead, applications are massively filled by bots, which negates the efforts of advertisers from the business and simply «burns» money, but in the meantime allows the tech giant to master large advertising budgets. Is this really so and how categorical are such assessments? In addition to representatives of the tech business, we talked about this with top digital agencies.

Under the guise of foreign volunteers, emissaries of the criminal world are entering Ukraine. Mexican and Colombian drug cartels are sending their people to learn how to fly attack drones, adopting Ukrainian combat experience. According to the investigation, some of them have already returned home from the war and intend to apply the acquired skills on the streets of Latin America.

What does «responsible gaming» mean in practice, what does the player protection system look like in European countries, and what does the Ukrainian market strive for?

Hacker groups Silent Crow and Cyber ​​Partisans BY announced a large-scale operation in which they completely destroyed the internal IT infrastructure of the Russian airline Aeroflot. According to the attackers, the penetration of the corporate network lasted almost a year and ended with the complete compromise of control systems, telecommunications and databases.(News supplemented with Sabre commentary)

Oleksii Borovyk, a Magento developer with over 12 years in the e-commerce industry, created the Pickapocket expense tracking app, which allows you to collaboratively manage expenses without complex systems and spreadsheets. Artificial intelligence helped implement the idea, which arose from the need to streamline the expenses of one’s own family budget. The development took 2 months — I worked after work and on weekends.

While salaries in the US are already paid in cryptocurrencies, and some utility bills can be paid in USDC, in Ukraine crypto is still perceived mainly as an investment or niche tool. But the market is changing. In 2025, stablecoins occupy a key place in the crypto ecosystem: according to CoinGecko, they account for more than 10% of the crypto asset market, and the volume of transactions in stablecoins is growing every quarter.

The owner and creative director of the video production company Guys Who Shoot, Yevgeny Astashov, said that he was forced to abandon a project with a Ukrainian company due to its cooperation with Russians. According to him, this happened about a month ago.

AIT residents are usually an inexhaustible source of knowledge that they are eager to share. Some create their own courses, some like teaching in IT schools, and there are those who go on to become teachers, teaching mathematics and computer science to children. School computer science teacher from Dnipropetrovsk region Taras Nikolaev works in parallel with teaching at the largest Ukrainian service company SoftServe. He has been teaching since 2002, currently at Dnipro Lyceum No. 100 «Leader» of the Dnipro City Council. And at the same time he works as a manager of the talent development center at SoftServe with beginners in IT. dev.ua talked with Taras and learned about the motivation for working at school, the difference in approaches to work in public education and IT, as well as the urgency of studying computer science at school, when there are a lot of courses around to enter IT.

In recent weeks, the information space has been shaken by information about a new virus that worries the WHO. Scientists believe that new cases of chikungunya could trigger a pandemic. The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that the world could face a chikungunya pandemic unless urgent action is taken. The organization has identified the same early signs of the epidemic as during the major outbreak of 2004-2005, and is keen to prevent a repeat. Some 5.6 billion people in 119 countries are now at risk, the WHO said. dev.ua figured out what this virus is, how it spreads, and whether Ukrainians should be worried.

​​Startups and fast-growing companies often face challenges when engaging different vendors for each stage of the hiring process, from recruitment to placement. In such a fragmented model, where different companies handle different functions, coordination becomes difficult, leading to delays and misunderstandings.

HR expert Tetyana Dyagil asked the community about the most common questions asked to candidates during interviews.

Natalia Anon has lived in the USA for over 30 years, and the IT company Svitla Systems, founded by her, has significantly expanded the geography of its representative offices to almost all continents over the past 20 years. Two months ago, Svitla also entered the IT services market in Australia, opening an office there. Despite the wide geography, more than half of Svitla Systems specialists are still representatives of the Ukrainian offices. dev.ua talked to Natalia Anon about what exactly motivated the entry into the Australian market, how preparations are being made for the «entry» into new locations, the realities of the Ukrainian IT industry during the period of a full-scale invasion by the enemy and the company’s performance. And also — why the miltech sphere will be the driver of the Ukrainian technology sector in the coming years. So about all this and not only — below.

The website of one of the most famous hacker platforms XSS.IS, where mostly Russians sat, is no longer working. It has a stub with "greetings" from the SBU and French law enforcement officers. This is due to the arrest of its admin in Kyiv on July 22. This is probably the administrator with the nickname Tokha, who is also the founder of another large hacker forum, exploit.in. Law enforcement officials report a partial shutdown of the XSS.IS infrastructure, while cybercriminals claim that the main server was not affected. Are these actions enough to completely shut down XSS.IS? We asked Ukrainian white hat hacker Mykyta Knysh and Ukrainian hacktivist Sean Townsend about this, and learned some interesting details.

Recruiter Kateryna Kokhanska told about a 30-minute interview with a Senior Fullstack Developer with an expected salary of up to $5,000. In this case, there would be nothing special if the candidate was not in the kitchen, and in the background there were sounds of opening/closing the refrigerator, pots, frying, and rustling of packages. Such a house became a signal for the recruiter. But do IT professionals agree that this situation can be a reason for rejection?

Recently, the Ukrainian Association of Fintech and Innovation Companies released a new publication — «Ukrainian Catalog of Fintech Companies 2025.» This is not just a tool for specialists in this field, but also research, a snapshot of our turbulent times, and most importantly, material for analysis and reflection, which I want to share further.

This story — about a radical change in life path — surprises and inspires at the same time. Daria Nedashkovska, Lead Software Testing Engineer at EPAM, before becoming an IT specialist, became the first female saber fencer to represent Ukraine at international competitions, including the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. dev.ua talked to Daria — the girl told why she chose IT and whether her sports past helps her in her current work. Next — Daria’s direct speech.

В Україні два дні проходили протести проти закону № 12414, який підриває незалежність антикорупційних органів НАБУ й САП. Ми запитали у ІТ-фахівців, які взяли участь у протестах, чому вони долучилися, про їхні враження й очікування. 

Over 14 years in mobile, I have built products with a combined audience of over 200 million users. I am currently the co-founder of Kiss My Apps, previously a product manager at Noosphere Ventures and Brainstack. I have experience launching my own offline businesses, and am an LP investor at Hi5.Ventures. I share insights into what really works in mobile products — from monetization paradoxes to team management. Below are the highlights from this experience.

Adherence to the principles of «responsible gaming» in European gambling is noticeably transforming. The development of the gambling markets of the EU countries in recent years clearly shows that today it is not a unique option, but a basic standard.

An Ukrtelecom official recruited by the FSB was passing sensitive data about the Ukrainian military's communications system to the enemy. We tell you the details of the case.

Along the entire front line, a death zone is apparently forming, the width of which reaches 40 kilometers or more. Moreover, this becomes a gray area for both sides — our fighters and the Russian occupiers. Frontline cities — Kharkiv, Kherson, Zaporizhia, Sumy — are also at risk. The reason for this is fiber-optic FPV drones, which are starting to fly at much greater distances.

While Ukrainians continue to gather for actions and rallies against Law No. 12414, which limits the independence of NABU and SAPO, international organizations have expressed concern and reported possible severe consequences for Ukraine.

At a meeting of the Verkhovna Rada on July 22, deputies voted for a draft law, some of whose provisions limit the powers of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAP) and subordinate their activities to the Prosecutor General. It transforms anti-corruption bodies into institutions dependent on the Prosecutor General. Previously, they were politically independent, and other bodies did not have the right to investigate cases that were assigned to the NABU and SAPO. On this occasion, rallies were held in major cities of Ukraine, the participants of which urged President Volodymyr Zelensky not to sign the document. Interestingly, the initiator of the gathering in the capital was veteran and IT activist Dmytro Koziatynsky. The pickets were supported by residents of Odessa, Lviv, and Dnipro. Meanwhile, in the parliament, a mystical event occurred with the bill, which was supposed to be signed by the president as the next step — first it disappeared from the Verkhovna Rada website, then the bill card that reappeared on the website had the status «returned with the president’s signature.» Later, this information was changed. A few minutes before midnight, the inscription «returned with the president’s signature» was returned. Discussions are underway around the document. However, there are far more dissatisfied people than those who are happy with the hasty adoption of such an initiative. dev.ua collected the opinions of IT professionals and quotes tech entrepreneurs on this subject.