Author: ProHoster

Facebook, Google and others to develop tests for AI

A consortium of 40 technology companies, including Facebook, Google and others, intends to develop an assessment methodology and a set of criteria for testing artificial intelligence. By measuring AI products across these categories, companies will be able to determine the optimal solutions for them, learning technologies, and so on. The consortium itself is called MLPerf. The benchmarks, called MLPerf Inference v0.5, center around three common […]

ABBYY introduced the Mobile Capture SDK for mobile software developers

ABBYY has introduced a new product for developers - a set of SDK Mobile Capture libraries designed for creating applications with intelligent recognition and data entry functions from mobile devices. Using a set of Mobile Capture libraries, software developers can build into their mobile products and client applications the functions of automatically capturing document images and text recognition with subsequent processing of the extracted […]

RoadRunner: PHP is not built to die, or Golang to the rescue

Hey Habr! We at Badoo are actively working on the performance of PHP, since we have a fairly large system in this language and performance is a matter of saving money. More than ten years ago, we created PHP-FPM for this, which at first was a set of patches for PHP, and later entered the official distribution. In recent years, PHP has strongly […]

Using mcrouter to scale memcached horizontally

The development of high-load projects in any language requires a special approach and the use of special tools, but when it comes to PHP applications, the situation can escalate so much that you have to develop, for example, your own application server. In this note, we will talk about the pain familiar to everyone with distributed storage of sessions and data caching in memcached and how […]

About the data center frankly: how we solved the problem of dust in the server rooms of the data center

Hello, Habr! I am Taras Chirkov, director of the Linxdatacenter data center in St. Petersburg. And today in our blog I will talk about what role maintaining room cleanliness plays in the normal operation of a modern data center, how to correctly measure it, achieve it and maintain it at the required level. Cleanliness Trigger One day a client of a data center in St. Petersburg contacted us about a layer of dust […]

The pressure is normal: why does the data center need to control the air pressure? 

Everything in a person should be perfect, and in a modern data center everything should work like a Swiss watch. Not a single component of the complex architecture of data center engineering systems should be left without the attention of the operations team. It was these considerations that guided us at the Linxdatacenter site in St. Petersburg, preparing for Uptime Management & Operations certification in 2018 and bringing all […]

Semantic Web and Linked Data. Corrections and additions

I would like to present to the public a fragment of this recently published book: Ontological modeling of an enterprise: methods and technologies [Text]: monograph / [S. V. Gorshkov, S. S. Kralin, O. I. Mushtak and others; executive editor S.V. Gorshkov]. - Ekaterinburg: Ural University Publishing House, 2019. - 234 p.: ill., table; 20 cm. - Author. indicated on the back tit. With. — Bibliography V […]

Record number of hacker attacks on Direct Line recorded in 2019

The number of hacker attacks on the website and other resources of the “Direct Line” with Russian President Vladimir Putin turned out to be a record for all the years of this event. This was reported by representatives of the press service of Rostelecom. The exact number of attacks, as well as from which countries they were carried out, was not said. Representatives of the press service noted that hacker attacks on the main website of the event and related […]

Raspberry Pi 4 unveiled: 4 cores, 4 GB RAM, 4 USB ports and 4K video included

The British Raspberry Pi Foundation has officially unveiled the fourth generation of its now legendary Raspberry Pi 4 single-board micro-PCs. The release took place six months earlier than expected due to the fact that the SoC developer, Broadcom, has accelerated the production lines of its BCM2711 chip (4 × ARM Cortex-A72, 1,5 GHz, 28 nm). One of the key […]

Samsung: Galaxy Fold launch won't affect Galaxy Note 10 launch date

The folding smartphone with a flexible screen, the Samsung Galaxy Fold, was supposed to debut back in April of this year, but due to technical problems, its release was postponed indefinitely. The exact release date of the new product has not yet been announced, but it may turn out that this event will occur immediately before the premiere of another important product for the company - the flagship phablet […]

GSMA: 5G networks will not affect weather forecasting

The development of fifth generation (5G) communication networks has long been the subject of heated discussion. Even before the commercial use of 5G, potential problems that new technologies could bring with them were actively discussed. Some researchers believe that 5G networks are dangerous to human health, while others are confident that fifth-generation communication networks will significantly complicate and reduce the accuracy of […]

Minimal installation of CentOS/Fedora/RedHat

I have no doubt that noble dons - Linux administrators - strive to minimize the set of packages installed on the server. This is more economical, safer and gives the administrator a feeling of complete control and understanding of the ongoing processes. Therefore, a typical scenario for the initial installation of an operating system looks like choosing the minimum option, and then filling it with the necessary packages. However, the minimum option offered by the CentOS installer […]