Author: ProHoster

Xiaomi is already working on the Mi Watch Pro smart watch

Today, November 5, Xiaomi officially introduced its first smart watch - the Mi Watch device. Meanwhile, according to online sources, the Chinese company is already designing the next “smart” chronometer. The gadget will allegedly be called Mi Watch Pro, that is, it will become a more advanced version of the current Mi Watch. The latter, we recall, are equipped with a Qualcomm Snapdragon Wear 3100 processor, a rectangular 1,78-inch AMOLED display, […]

OnePlus Watch could launch in 2020

The company OnePlus, according to online sources, is preparing to enter the market of “smart” wristwatches: the corresponding gadget is now allegedly in development. If you believe the published data, the new product will be called OnePlus Watch. The announcement could take place simultaneously with the OnePlus 8 and OnePlus 8 Pro smartphones, which will debut in the second quarter of next year. According to rumors, the OnePlus Watch will be based on hardware […]

Published analysis of data from the Voyager 2 probe, obtained after entering interstellar space

The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Voyager 2 space probe entered interstellar space last year, repeating the achievement of the Voyager 1 spacecraft. The scientific journal Nature Astronomy published a series of articles this week analyzing messages from the Voyager probe. 2 from the moment it entered interstellar space at a distance of 18 […]

Switched from Terraform to CloudFormation - and regretted it

Representing infrastructure as code in a repeatable text format is a simple best practice for systems that don't require fiddling with mice. This practice has a name - Infrastructure as Code, and so far there are two popular tools for its implementation, especially in AWS: Terraform and CloudFormation. Comparing experience with Terraform and CloudFormation Before joining […]

How a fault-tolerant web architecture is implemented in the Mail.ru Cloud Solutions platform

Hello, Habr! I am Artem Karamyshev, head of the system administration team at Mail.Ru Cloud Solutions (MCS). We have had many new product launches over the past year. We wanted to ensure that API services were easily scalable, fault-tolerant, and ready for rapid growth in user load. Our platform is implemented on OpenStack, and I want to tell you what component fault tolerance problems we had to solve […]

Storing photos on DVDs in 2K19 (2190? 2238?)

I got my first digital camera 14 years ago. Then the problem of storing photographs arose. Fortunately, at that time it was solved quickly and unambiguously - write it to disk, period. External HDDs, and internal ones too, were expensive back then. In my opinion, there were no SSD drives at all, and if there were, they probably cost more […]

9 More Projects to Sharpen Your Front-End Skills

Introduction Whether you're new to programming or a seasoned developer, learning new concepts and languages/frameworks is a must in this industry to keep up with trends. Take React, for example, which Facebook open-sourced just four years ago and has already become the number one choice for JavaScript developers around the world. Vue and […]

Digital events in Moscow from November 4 to 10

Selection of events for the Sber X week - RamblerFront& Meet Up November 05 (Tuesday) Kutuzovsky Avenue 32 free SberX - directorate for the development of the Sber Ecosystem. Involved in the development and management of subsidiaries. Rambler Group is one of the leaders in the Russian media and entertainment industry. The group's main activities are digital media, online cinema and technological services. Product management: How to make […]

5 more daring developer training projects (Layer, Squoosh, Calculator, Website Crawler, Music Player)

We continue the series of projects for training. 9 projects to hone your Front-End skills Six tasks for a Front-End developer Fun practice for a developer 8 training projects Another list of projects to practice on Layer www.reddit.com/r/layer Layer is a community where everyone can draw a pixel on common "board". The original idea was born on Reddit. The r/Layer community is a metaphor for co-creation […]

Digital events in St. Petersburg from 4 to 10 November

Selection of events for the week C++ Evening #2 November 07 (Thursday) NabOvodny Kan. 136 free At the meeting we will discuss different formats of configuration files, and also consider approaches to organizing CMake projects, modern and not so modern. Baltic Sea Hack November 09 (Saturday) - November 10 (Sunday) Peterburgskoye sh. 64korp1 free prize fund: 500 rubles; crazy networking: [...]

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1

Red Hat announced the release of the first update for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.x series. The new 8.1 release introduces a new predictable update cycle with small releases every six months. It also provides the best SELInux controls for working with containers. This release also focuses on increasing uptime with kernel fixes in […]

The formation of the thermostat: how it happened

After several years of fruitful work, it was decided to bring to the public our first product for climate control in a smart home - a smart thermostat for controlling heated floors. What is this device? This is a smart thermostat for any electric heated floor up to 3kW. Managed via an application, web page, HTTP, MQTT, therefore easily integrated into all systems […]