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Independence in the 21st century is measured not only by borders and the army, but also by the ability to preserve one’s data, digital statehood, and business during the largest systemic crises. What do you know about the Ukrainian cloud? How did the first and largest national cloud providers and mass services appear and grow? How are they changing right now under the influence of artificial intelligence? And most importantly, how does the cloud hold the foundation of our digital sovereignty?

Imagine a boy who buys firecrackers at the legendary 7th kilometer in school, prints business cards “Artem, student of grade 5-B” on an old printer, and sincerely believes that business is when you have your own business card and an office with a study. Then this boy grows up, works without sleep for weeks until his nose bleeds, accidentally creates one of the most famous IT empires in the country… and at some point realizes that his main dream is to simply do nothing. Sounds like the plot for a teenage bestseller about growing up? But this is the true story of Artem Borodatyuk, founder of Netpeak Group and Fractal. In the first major video interview for dev.ua in a long time, we decided to strip away all the corporate gloss from the business and talk about what's really going on in the founder's head.

QA Architect at EPAM Yehor Maksymchuk and Lead Full-Stack Engineer Bohdan Shtohrynets share their own practical experience and provide valuable advice on preparing for and successfully passing the Claude Certified Architect certifications from Anthropic.

When a service runs 24/7 and has external and internal consumers, there is virtually no window for maintenance. This is the task that the SharksCode team faced when migrating a high-load backend component along with its data layer to a new infrastructure and a new data storage scheme. The old implementation began to limit scalability and make it difficult to scale the read and write load independently. Meanwhile, any schema changes and releases were becoming increasingly risky. The company was preparing the system for further growth and wanted to do it without a single minute of downtime.