Author: ProHoster

Samsung is preparing a mysterious Neon product

The South Korean company Samsung has published a series of teaser images indicating the preparation of a mysterious product. The project was called Neon. This is a development by specialists from Samsung Technology & Advanced Research Labs (Star Labs). To date, almost nothing is known about the Neon product. It is only reported that the project is associated with artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, which are currently rapidly gaining popularity. IN […]

US Plans to Halt Shipments of TSMC's 14nm Chips to Huawei

Just a week ago we learned that the US was planning to impose new restrictions on the supply of equipment for use in Huawei devices. Now it looks like this is starting to come to fruition. Plans for new measures by the United States could jeopardize TSMC's supply of 14nm chips to China's Huawei. Several countries accuse Huawei of maintaining close ties with […]

Auto-generate and fill network device configuration items with Nornir

Hello, Habr! Recently an article on Mikrotik and Linux popped up here. Routine and automation where a similar problem was solved using fossil means. And although the task is completely typical, there is nothing similar about it on Habré. I dare to offer my bicycle to the respected IT community. This is not the first bike for such a task. The first option was implemented several years ago […]

Flagship smartphone Realme X50 5G appeared in the official image

Realme has published an official image of the flagship smartphone X50 5G, the presentation of which will take place on January 7 of the coming year. The poster shows the back of the device. It can be seen that the device is equipped with a quad camera, the optical blocks of which are arranged vertically in the upper left corner. The camera is rumored to include 64 million and 8 million pixel sensors, as well as a pair of […]

Self-Hosting Third Party Resources: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly

In recent years, more and more platforms for optimizing front-end projects offer opportunities for self-hosting or proxying third-party resources. Akamai allows you to set specific parameters for self-generated URLs. Cloudflare has Edge Workers technology. Fasterzine can rewrite URLs on pages so that they point to third-party resources located on the main site domain. If it is known that [...]

Battle of WEB servers. Part 2 - Realistic HTTPS Scenario:

We talked about the methodology in the first part of the article; in this part we test HTTPS, but in more realistic scenarios. For testing, we received a Let's Encrypt certificate and enabled Brotli compression to 11. This time we will try to reproduce the server deployment scenario on a VDS or as a virtual machine on a host with a standard processor. For this purpose, a limit was set at: [...]

How was the @Kubernetes conference on November 29: video and results

On November 29, the @Kubernetes conference was held, organized by Mail.ru Cloud Solutions. The conference grew out of @Kubernetes meetups and became the fourth event in the series. We gathered more than 350 participants in the Mail.ru Group to discuss the most pressing problems with those who, together with us, are building the Kubernetes ecosystem in Russia. Below is a video of the conference reports - how Tinkoff.ru wrote their […]

Do I need to create a RAID array from an SSD and what controllers are needed for this

Hello Habr! In this article we will tell you whether it is worth organizing RAID arrays based on solid-state solutions SATA SSD and NVMe SSD, and will there be a serious profit from this? We decided to look into this issue by considering the types and types of controllers that allow this to be done, as well as the scope of application of such configurations. One way or another, each of us at least [...]

Habra detective: they are friends with UFOs

You know that the UFO takes care of you, right? Well, in any case, this is regularly reminded in the publications of the Habr editorial department - news on near-political, near-scandal and other near-topics. Let's find out how often editors use this standard “stub” and for what publications? We will also fulfill other wishes from the comments to the previous Habra-detective about […]

We share our experience, how SSDs perform within the framework of RAID and which array level is more profitable

In the previous article, we already considered the question of “Can we use RAID on SSDs” using the example of Kingston drives, but we did this only within the framework of the zero level. In this article, we will analyze the options for using professional and home NVMe solutions in the most popular types of RAID arrays and talk about the compatibility of Broadcom controllers with Kingston drives. Why do you need RAID on [...]

Four principles of translation, or in what way is a person not inferior to a machine translator?

There have long been rumors in the air that machine translation will be able to replace human translators, and sometimes statements like “Human and Google Neural Machine translations are almost indistinguishable” when Google announced the launch of a neural machine translation system (GNMT). Of course, recently neural networks have made a huge step in their development and are increasingly […]