Author: ProHoster

How we built monitoring on Prometheus, Clickhouse and ELK

My name is Anton Baderin. I work at the Center for High Technologies and do system administration. A month ago, our corporate conference ended, where we shared our experience with the IT community of our city. I talked about monitoring web applications. The material was intended for the junior or middle level, which did not build this process from scratch. The cornerstone that underlies any system […]

Sony priced 98-inch 8K TV at $70

Sony Electronics Corporation has announced prices and dates for the start of sales of smart TVs for the 2019 model range. The flagship Master Series Z9G 8K HDR TV panels will reportedly become available in June. This family includes two models - with a diagonal of 85 inches and 98 inches: the cost will be $13 and $000, respectively. The TVs have a resolution of 70 × 000 pixels, support a number of […]

SLR camera Nikon D6 is credited with the presence of built-in stabilization

At the disposal of network sources was preliminary information about the characteristics of the D6 SLR camera, which is being prepared for release by Nikon. According to the available data, the camera will be equipped with a sensor with 24 million pixels. We are talking about the possibility of recording video in 4K format (3840 × 2160 pixels) at up to 60 frames per second. A feature of the novelty will supposedly be a built-in image stabilization system. […]

Tesla promises a million robotic taxis on the roads in 2020

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has announced that the company intends to launch a self-driving taxi service in the United States as early as next year. It is assumed that the owners of Tesla electric cars will be able to provide their cars to transport other people in autopilot mode. This will allow owners of electric vehicles to receive additional income. Through the companion application, it will be possible to determine […]

Apple loses 'One More Thing' rights to Swatch in Australia

Apple for the second time in a month was defeated in court by watchmaker Swatch. She failed to convince the Australian Trademark Office that Swatch should be denied the “One More Thing” slogan, synonymous with Apple events and made famous by co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs, who […] ]

Samsung recalls all Galaxy Fold samples sent to experts

Samsung Electronics has taken back all Galaxy Fold samples sent to reviewers, a day after it announced it was delaying the release of the foldable smartphone. This was reported by Reuters sources. The company explained the decision to postpone the launch of the flagship device by the need to conduct additional tests in order to determine measures to improve the reliability of the device design. According to Samsung's initial plans, the Galaxy Fold […]

Flexiant Cloud Orchestrator: what it is eaten with

To provide the IaaS (Virtual Data Center) service, we at Rusonyx use the commercial Flexiant Cloud Orchestrator (FCO). This solution has a rather unique architecture, which distinguishes it from the well-known Openstack and CloudStack. KVM, VmWare, Xen, Virtuozzo6/7, as well as containers from the same Virtuozzo are supported as compute node hypervisors. Supported storages are local, NFS, […]

Fallout 76 began selling non-cosmetic items for real money. Bethesda commented

Before the release of Fallout 76, Bethesda Softworks promised that only cosmetic items that could not provide a gameplay advantage could be purchased for real money in the game. However, in early April, the developers alarmed gamers with the news that they were planning to add paid repair kits. They actually arrived this week with the release of the newest update, Wild Appalachia 8.5, […]

Import substitution in practice. Part 3. Operating systems

We continue our series of articles about import substitution. In previous publications, options for replacing deployed systems with "domestic" ones, and specifically "domestic-made" hypervisors, were considered. Now it's the turn to talk about the "domestic" operating systems included in the register of the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications at the moment. 0. Starting point I caught myself thinking that I don't know how to compare LINUX distributions. Climb […]

Introduction to Elasticsearch step by step

Hello! Today we will talk about the full-text search engine Elasticsearch (hereinafter referred to as ES), with which the Docsvision 5.5 platform works. 1. Installation You can download the latest version from the link: www.elastic.co/downloads/elasticsearch The installer screenshot is below: 2. Checking if the installation is complete, go to http://localhost:9200/ You should see the ES status page, example below : If the page does not open, make sure the Elasticsearch service […]

Cable TV networks for the little ones. Part 1: General architecture of a CATV network

No matter how the enlightened community scolds television for its negative impact on consciousness, nevertheless, the television signal is present in almost all residential (and in many non-residential) premises. In big cities, this is almost always cable television, even if everyone around it habitually calls it “antenna”. And if the system for receiving terrestrial television is quite obvious (although it can also […]

WebRTC and video surveillance: how we beat camera video latency

From the first days of working on a cloud video surveillance system, we faced a problem, without solving which it was possible to put an end to Ivideon - it was our Everest, climbing which took a lot of strength, but now we have finally stuck an ice ax into the top of the cross-platform rebus. The system for transmitting audio and video over the Internet should not depend on equipment, Web clients […]