Publisher Focus Home Interactive and French studio Asobo have announced the release of a free trial version of their medieval adventure A Plague Tale: Innocence. Players on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC, starting today, can play through the entire first chapter of the story of Amicia and Hugo to get their own understanding of this dark tale. On this occasion, the developers […]
ESET has published the results of a study on the security of mobile devices running operating systems of the Apple iOS family. We are talking about iPhone smartphones and iPad tablet computers. It is reported that the number of cyber threats to Apple gadgets has increased significantly recently. In particular, in the first half of this year, experts discovered 155 vulnerabilities in the Apple mobile platform. This is on […]
This will be a longread, friends, and quite frank, but for some reason I haven’t seen similar articles. There are a lot of experienced guys here in terms of online stores (development and promotion), but no one has written how to make a cool store for $250 (or maybe $70) that will look great and work great (sell!). And all this can be done [...]
Somehow, without much attention from the community, the news came out that the release of CentOS 8.0 had once again been postponed indefinitely. Information about this appeared in the Updates section on the CentOS wiki page dedicated to the release of the eight. The message states that work on the already finished (again according to the wiki) release of CentOS 8.0 is being postponed […]
Programmer's Day is a holiday of programmers, celebrated on the 256th day of the year. The number 256 (2⁸) was chosen because it is the number of different values that can be expressed using an eight-bit byte. It is also the maximum integer power of 2 that does not exceed the number of days in a year (365 or 366). Source: linux.org.ru
The release of CentOS 8.0 has once again been postponed indefinitely; information about this appeared in the “Updates” section on the CentOS wiki page dedicated to the preparation of a new branch. The message states that work on the already finished (according to the wiki) release of CentOS 8.0 has been suspended for now due to the fact that the release of CentOS 7.7 is being prepared and, since the 7.x branch […]
Huawei has launched variants of the Matebook 13, MateBook 14, MateBook X Pro and Honor MagicBook Pro laptop models with Linux preinstalled. The device models supplied with Linux are currently distributed only in the Chinese market and are limited to the basic configuration. The Matebook 13 and Matebook 14 devices with Linux are approximately $42 less than similar models with pre-installed […]
The Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Communications (Roskomnadzor) reported on an inspection of Wi-Fi wireless access points in public places. Let us remind you that public hotspots in our country are required to identify users. The corresponding rules were adopted back in 2014. However, not all open Wi-Fi access points still verify subscribers. Roskomnadzor […]
The pgsentinel company has released the pgsentinel extension of the same name (github repository), which adds the pg_active_session_history view to PostgreSQL - the history of active sessions (similar to Oracle's v$active_session_history). Essentially, these are simply every second snapshots from pg_stat_activity, but there are important points: All accumulated information is stored only in RAM, and the amount of memory consumed is regulated by the number of last stored records. The queryid field is added - [...]
TL;DR To achieve high observability of containers and microservices, logs and primary metrics are not enough. For faster recovery and increased resiliency, applications should apply the High Observability Principle (HOP). At the application level, NOP requires: proper logging, close monitoring, sanity checks, and performance/transition tracing. Use the Kubernetes readinessProbe and livenessProbe checks as an NOP element. […]
The URUS company tried Kubernetes in different forms: independent deployment on bare metal, in Google Cloud, and then transferred its platform to the Mail.ru Cloud Solutions (MCS) cloud. Igor Shishkin (t3ran), senior system administrator at URUS, tells how they chose a new cloud provider and how they managed to migrate to it in a record two hours. What URUS does There are many ways [...]
The hh.ru research service together with the MADE Big Data Academy from Mail.ru compiled a portrait of a Data Science specialist in Russia. Having studied 8 thousand resumes of Russian data scientists and 5,5 thousand employer vacancies, we found out where Data Science specialists live and work, how old they are, what university they graduated from, what programming languages they speak and how many […]
