Author: ProHoster

Launched into the stratosphere, a device with a Samsung Galaxy S10 Plus fell near a farm in Michigan

A Michigan woman discovered a device near her farmhouse that she mistook for a space satellite. It bore the names of Samsung and South Dakota-based balloon manufacturer Raven Industries, whose employees had come to pick up the crashed balloon. As it turned out, it was a device of the Samsung SpaceSelfie project, launched by a South Korean company with a balloon into the stratosphere in honor of its […]

How we made a tariff for Windows VPS for 120 rubles

If you are a VDS hosting customer, have you ever thought about what comes with the standard operating system image? We decided to share how we prepare standard client virtual machines and show, using the example of our new Ultralight tariff for 120 rubles, how we created a standard image of Windows Server 2019 Core, and also tell you what’s in it […]

Talisman for stable communication

Why do you need mobile Internet, for example, 4G? To travel and be connected all the time. Far from big cities, where there is no usual free Wi-Fi, and life goes on as usual. And it is also needed to have access to the Network, visiting remote objects where they did not conduct, connect, pay or did not want to make centralized access to […]

Free broadcast DevOops 2019 and C++ Russia 2019 Piter

On October 29-30, that is, tomorrow, the DevOops 2019 conference will take place. These are two days of reports about CloudNative, cloud technologies, observability and monitoring, configuration management and security, and so on. Immediately following it, on October 31 - November 1, the C++ Russia 2019 Piter conference will take place. This is another two days of hardcore technical talks dedicated to C++: concurrency, performance, architecture, […]

The decline of the era of Big Data

Many foreign authors agree that the era of Big Data has come to an end. And in this case, the term Big Data refers to technologies based on Hadoop. Many authors can even confidently name the date when Big Data left this world and this date is 05.06.2019/XNUMX/XNUMX. What happened on this significant day? On this day, […]

How we use Markov chains in evaluating solutions and finding bugs. With a Python script

It is important for us to understand what happens to our students during training and how these events affect the result, so we build a Customer Journey Map - a map of customer experience. After all, the learning process is not something continuous and integral, it is a chain of interconnected events and actions of the student, and these actions can vary greatly among different students. Here he is […]

Zabbix Interview: 12 Candid Answers

There is a superstition in IT: “If it works, don’t touch it.” This can be said about our monitoring system. At Southbridge we use Zabbix - when we chose it, it was very cool. And, in fact, he had no alternatives. Over time, our ecosystem has acquired instructions, additional bindings, and integration with redmine has appeared. Zabbix has a powerful competitor […]

Sawing an article on Habr

Among the main reasons why many advanced IT specialists are afraid to write on Habr is most often cited as impostor syndrome (they believe that they are not that cool). Plus they are simply afraid of being downvoted, and they complain about the lack of interesting topics. And taking into account the fact that we all once came here from the “sandbox”, I want to throw out a couple of good thoughts that will help you find the right […]

Informal relationships in a team: why and how to manage them

Many years ago, I joined a company as a developer and soon witnessed an unusual scene. The team leader of a neighboring department called his subordinate in the middle of the working day and quite loudly and cheekily told him: “Listen, here’s some money for you. Go to the store, buy whiskey and snacks.” I thought: “Come on! It’s all strange...” But the situation repeated itself [...]

How a smart electric bike was created

On Habré they often write about electric transport. And about bicycles. And also about AI. Cloud4Y decided to combine these three topics by talking about a “smart” electric bicycle that is always online. We will talk about the Greyp G6 model. To make it more interesting for you, we have divided the article into two parts. The first is devoted to the process of creating a device, platform and communication protocols. The second is technical […]

First hand learning experience. Yandex.Practice – Data Analyst

I share my experience of training in Yandex.Practicum for those who would like to obtain either a completely new specialty or move from related fields. I would call it the first step in the profession, in my subjective opinion. It’s difficult to know exactly, from scratch, what needs to be studied, because everyone has a certain amount of knowledge, and this course will teach you a lot, and everyone will understand […]

Fedora 31 release

Today, October 29, Fedora 31 was released. The release was delayed by one week due to problems with support for multiple ARM architectures in dnf, as well as due to conflicts when updating the libgit2 package. Installation options: Fedora Workstation for x86_64 in the form of DVD and netinstall images. Fedora Server for x86_64, AArch64, ppc64le and s390x. Fedora Silverblue, Fedora CoreOS and Fedora IoT […]