Author: ProHoster

China's new commercial missiles to test fly in 2020 and 2021

China will test flight its next two Smart Dragon space rockets for commercial use in 2020 and 2021. The official Xinhua news agency reported this on Sunday. As the expected boom in satellite deployment gathers pace, the country is ramping up its efforts in this area. About this the company China Rocket (a division of the state corporation China Aerospace Science […]

Long-term data storage. (Article - discussion)

Good day everyone! I would like to create an article like this - a discussion. I don’t know whether it will fit the site’s format, but I think many will find it interesting and useful to find answers to many questions. I couldn’t find a reliable answer to the following question on the Internet (I probably didn’t search well). The question is: “Where to store archival data. What will last as long as possible [...]

China is in no hurry to approve NVIDIA's deal with Mellanox

Speaking at the quarterly reporting conference in May, NVIDIA CEO and founder Jen-Hsun Huang confidently said that the brewing contradictions between the US and China around Huawei at that time would not have an impact on the approval of the deal to purchase the Israeli company Mellanox Technologies . For NVIDIA, this deal should be the largest in history, it […]

How does kubectl exec work?

Note transl.: the author of the article, Erkan Erol, an engineer from SAP, shares his study of the mechanisms of functioning of the kubectl exec command, so familiar to everyone who works with Kubernetes. He accompanies the entire algorithm with listings of the Kubernetes source code (and related projects), which allow you to understand the topic as deeply as required. One Friday, […]

We close holes in the Kubernetes cluster. Report and transcript with DevOpsConf

Pavel Selivanov, Southbridge solutions architect and Slurm teacher, gave a presentation at DevOpsConf 2019. This talk is part of one of the topics of the in-depth course on Kubernetes “Slurm Mega”. Slurm Basic: Introduction to Kubernetes takes place in Moscow on November 18-20. Slurm Mega: looking under the hood of Kubernetes - Moscow, November 22-24. Slurm Online: both Kubernetes courses are always available. […]

Digital events in Moscow from 21 to 28 October

Selection of events for the week International Forum "Open Innovation" October 21 (Monday) - October 23 (Wednesday) Bolshoi Blvd. 42korp1 from 1 rub. The Open Innovations Forum, held annually since 500, is the largest congress and exhibition event in Russia and one of the largest in the world, demonstrating the main trends and key achievements in innovative sectors of the economy. Callday conference […]

How we went to the marketplace (and didn’t achieve anything special)

At Variti, we specialize in traffic filtering, that is, we develop protection against bots and DDoS attacks for online stores, banks, media and others. Some time ago, we started thinking about providing limited functionality of the service to users of various marketplaces. Such a solution should have been of interest to small companies whose work does not depend so much on the Internet, and which […]

Digital events in St. Petersburg from 21 to 28 October

Selection of events for the week Harsh St. Petersburg SMM October 19 (Saturday) - October 21 (Monday) Shipbuilders 14 from 6 rub. 900 streams are planned, 7 reports from more than 84 practicing speakers who will make the most informative reports with current promotion methods, cases and figures. At “Surovy”, all conditions will traditionally be created for networking, searching for employees, clients and contractors: special […]

Apache Ignite Zero Deployment: exactly Zero?

We are the technology development department of a retail network. One day, management set the task of speeding up large-scale calculations by using Apache Ignite in conjunction with MSSQL, and showed a website with beautiful illustrations and examples of Java code. I immediately liked Zero Deployment on the site, the description of which promises miracles: you don't have to manually deploy your Java or Scala code on each node […]

Firefox 70

Firefox 70 is available. Major changes: A new password manager has been introduced - Lockwise: 10 years ago, Justin Dolske reported on the weak security of the password manager. In 2018, Vladimir Palant (developer of Adblock Plus) raised this issue again after discovering that the password manager was still using one-shot SHA-1 hashing. This allows you to reset the password of the average user in a few minutes […]

Why we moved servers to Iceland

Translator's note. Simple Analytics is a privacy-focused website analytics service (somewhat the opposite of Google Analytics) As the founder of Simple Analytics, I have always been mindful of the importance of trust and transparency for our clients. We are responsible for them so that they can sleep peacefully. The choice should be optimal from the point of view of privacy of both visitors and clients. […]

Dacha in winter: to be or not to be?

There are often reports about the release of new IoT devices or smart home kits, but there are rarely reviews about the actual operation of such systems. And they gave me a problem that is quite common throughout Russia and neighboring countries: it was necessary to secure the dacha and ensure the possibility of operation in the autumn-winter period. Both security and the issue of heating automation were resolved literally [...]