Author: ProHoster

Configuring load balancing on InfoWatch Traffic Monitor

What to do if the power of one server is not enough to process all requests, and the software manufacturer does not provide load balancing? There are many options, from purchasing a load balancer to limiting the number of requests. Which one is correct must be determined by the situation, taking into account existing conditions. In this article we will tell you what you can do if your budget is limited, [...]

Who used cheap? Samsung and LG Display are selling LCD production lines

Chinese companies have put extreme pressure on South Korean LCD panel manufacturers. Therefore, Samsung Display and LG Display began to rapidly sell their production lines with low efficiency. According to South Korean website Etnews, Samsung Display and LG Display are aiming to sell their low-efficiency production lines as quickly as possible. Ultimately, this should lead to the transfer of the “center […]

Tracing and Monitoring in Istio: Microservices and the Uncertainty Principle

The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle states that you cannot measure the position of an object and its speed at the same time. If an object is moving, then it has no location. And if there is a location, it means it has no speed. As for microservices on the Red Hat OpenShift platform (and running Kubernetes), thanks to the appropriate open source software, they can simultaneously report […]

$100-billion capitalization means Tesla has surpassed Volkswagen and is second only to Toyota

We have already written that Tesla became the first publicly traded US automaker whose market value exceeds $100 billion. This achievement, among other things, means that the company has surpassed the huge Volkswagen automaker in value and has become the second largest automaker in the world. The milestone could also, among other things, allow company CEO Elon Musk to receive huge […]

Do we need a data lake? And what to do with the data warehouse?

This article is a translation of my article on medium - Getting Started with Data Lake, which turned out to be quite popular, probably because of its simplicity. Therefore, I decided to write it in Russian and add a little to make it clear to a common person who is not a data specialist what a data warehouse (DW) is and what a data lake is […]

Akasa Newton PX and Plato PX cases help create a silent NUC 8 Pro nettop

The day before, we talked about the latest Intel NUC 8 Pro mini-computers of the Provo Canyon generation. Now Akasa has presented cases that allow the creation of fanless nettops based on boards of this family. The Akasa Newton PX and Plato PX products have been announced. These cases are made of aluminum, and the finned outer sections act as radiators to dissipate heat. The Newton PX model is compatible with […]

Who and why wants to make the Internet "common"

Issues of security of personal data, their leaks and the growing “power” of large IT corporations are increasingly worrying not only ordinary network users, but also representatives of various political parties. Some, such as those on the left, are proposing radical approaches, from nationalizing the Internet to turning tech giants into cooperatives. About what real steps in this direction of such “perestroika […]

A Visual Guide to Troubleshooting Kubernetes

Note transl.: This article is part of the publicly available materials of the learnk8s project, which teaches companies and individual administrators how to work with Kubernetes. In it, Daniele Polencic, project manager, shares visual instructions on what steps to take in case of general problems with applications running on the K8s cluster. TL;DR: Here's a diagram to help you […]

Video: Commandos 2 and Praetorians re-releases are out on PC

At E3 2019, publishing house Kalypso Media presented improved re-releases of classic strategies from the Pyro studio - Commandos 2 HD Remastered and Praetorians HD Remastered. Now they are out on Steam (console versions will be delayed until spring). A new trailer has been unveiled for this occasion. Improved versions of old games are being developed by the Yippee Entertainment and Torus Games teams, respectively. Each project includes full […]

Samsung Galaxy A11 smartphone with triple camera declassified by US regulator

The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has released information about another relatively inexpensive Samsung smartphone - a device that will hit the market under the name Galaxy A11. The FCC documentation shows a picture of the back of the device. It can be seen that the smartphone is equipped with a triple camera, whose optical elements are lined up vertically in the upper left corner of the body. In addition, at the rear there will be […]

British physicists come up with a universal memory ULTRARAM

The development of brain models is constrained by the lack of a suitable memory that is both fast, dense and non-volatile. For computers and smartphones there is also not enough memory with similar properties. The discovery of British physicists promises to bring closer the emergence of the necessary universal memory. The invention was made by physicists from Lancaster University (UK). Back in June last year, they published an article in the journal Nature in which they […]

Motorola Blackjack and Edge +: mysterious smartphones are being prepared for release

Internet sources report that information about a new Motorola smartphone codenamed Blackjack has appeared on the website of the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The device has the code XT2055-2. It is known that it supports Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n and Bluetooth LE wireless networks, as well as fourth-generation 4G/LTE cellular networks. The indicated dimensions of the front panel are 165 × 75 mm, [...]