Author: ProHoster

SD-WAN - recent trends and forecast for 2020

Any company, large or small, uses communications in its work. This could be a cell phone, the Internet, a network for communication with regional divisions, a satellite, etc. If the company is large enough, and its divisions are located in different regions of the same country or different countries, then the amount it spends on communication services can be quite substantial. Problem in […]

Battle of WEB-servers. Part 1 - HTTP disconnected from reality:

In this article we will try our hand at reverse engineering, one might say. We'll get our dirty hands under the hood of each web server, exploiting them in ways that no one would ever exploit. This test is a measurement of a spherical horse in a vacuum, nothing more than data that was obtained, and now we do not know what to do with it. Methodology B […]

Three satellites "Gonets-M" will go into space a few days before the new year

Three spacecraft of the Gonets-M series will be launched on December 26. TASS reports this, citing information received from the management of Gonets Satellite System JSC. The Gonets-M devices are the basis of the Gonets-D1M personal satellite communication platform. These satellites are designed to organize mobile communications for mobile and landline subscribers anywhere in the world. It is reported that three Gonets-M devices […]

Tricks for Handling Metrics in Kapacitor

Most likely, today no one asks why it is necessary to collect service metrics. The next logical step is to set up an alert for the collected metrics, which will notify about any deviations in the data in channels convenient for you (mail, Slack, Telegram). In the online hotel booking service Ostrovok.ru, all metrics of our services are poured into InfluxDB and displayed in Grafana, […]

Graphene, which still could not

How often do we see “news from the future” in the media, in which the planned successes of science for the benefit of the national economy of the country are proudly announced? Often, in the comments to such messages and reports, one can find skepticism and calls to write only about past events. We believe little in bright and inspiring plans. Well, this kind of publications in the domestic information field is not unique. […]

What to do if mailings are already in Spam: 5 practical steps

Image: Unsplash When dealing with mailing lists, there can be surprises. A common situation: everything worked fine, but suddenly the open rate of emails dropped sharply, and the postmasters of the mail systems began to signal that your mailing lists were in Spam. What to do in such a situation and how to get out of "Spam"? Step 1. Checking for compliance with a number of criteria First of all, it is necessary to […]

Pet (fantasy story)

Usually we write in our blogs about the features of various complex technologies or talk about what we are working on ourselves, share insights. But today we want to offer you something special. In the summer of 2019, the famous author of science fiction works, Sergey Zhigarev, wrote two stories for the Selectel and RBC literary project, but only one was included in the final edition. The second is like […]

Deploying Applications Easily and Naturally on Tarantool Cartridge (Part 1)

We have already talked about Tarantool Cartridge, which allows you to develop distributed applications and package them. There is nothing left: learn how to deploy and manage these applications. Don't worry, we've thought of everything! We have put together all the best practices for working with Tarantool Cartridge and wrote an ansible role that will decompose the package into servers, launch instances, unite them into a cluster, […]

NetHack 3.6.3

The NetHack development team is pleased to announce the release of version 3.6.3 of NetHack, a PC RPG that is one of the founders of the roguelike genre and the oldest game still in development. The game is a very complex, dynamic and unpredictable labyrinth world in which the player fights various creatures, trades, develops and advances downwards in order to […]

How I visited Urban Tech 2019. Report from the scene

Urban Tech Moscow is a hackathon with a prize fund of 10 rubles. 000 commands, 000 hours of code and 250 pizza slices. As it was firsthand in this article. Straight to the point and all right. Applying How the recruitment went was a mystery to us. We are a group of guys from a small town and one […]