Author: ProHoster

Hacks when working with a large number of small files

The idea for the article was born spontaneously from a discussion in the comments to the article “Something about inode”. The fact is that the internal specificity of our services is the storage of a huge number of small files. At the moment we have about hundreds of terabytes of such data. And we came across some obvious and not so obvious rakes and successfully navigated them. That's why I'm sharing [...]

Ways of integration with 1C

What are the most important requirements for business applications? Some of the most important tasks are the following: Ease of changing/adapting the application logic to changing business tasks. Easy integration with other applications. How the first task is solved in 1C was briefly described in the “Customization and Support” section of this article; We will return to this interesting topic in a future article. […]

Something about inode

Periodically, in order to move to the Central Distribution Center, I interview at various large companies, mainly in St. Petersburg and Moscow, for a DevOps position. I noticed that many companies (many good companies, for example Yandex) ask two similar questions: what is inode; For what reasons can you get a disk write error (or for example: why you might run out of space on […]

RAVIS and DAB at a low start. DRM is offended. The strange future of RF digital radio

On July 25, 2019, without warning, the State Commission on Radio Frequencies (SCRF) gave the domestic RAVIS standard the ranges 65,8–74 MHz and 87,5–108 MHz for organizing digital radio broadcasting. Now a third has been added to the choice of two not very good standards. In the Russian Federation there is a special body responsible for distributing the available radio spectrum among those wishing to use it. His decisions largely [...]

We raise the 1c server with the publication of the database and web services on Linux

Today I would like to tell you how to set up a 1c server on Linux Debian 9 with the publication of web services. What are 1C web services? Web services are one of the platform mechanisms used for integration with other information systems. It is a means of supporting SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture), a service-oriented architecture that is a modern standard for integrating applications and information systems. In fact […]

How to tame a junior?

How to get into a big company if you are a junior? How to hire a decent junior if you are a large company? Below the cut, I’ll tell you our story of hiring beginners on the front end: how we worked through test tasks, prepared to conduct interviews and built a mentoring program for the development and onboarding of newcomers, and also why standard interview questions don’t work. […]

Test infrastructure as code with Pulumi. Part 1

Good afternoon friends. On the eve of the start of a new stream of the “DevOps practices and tools” course, we are sharing with you a new translation. Go. Using Pulumi and general-purpose programming languages ​​for infrastructure code (Infrastructure as Code) provides many advantages: the availability of skills and knowledge, elimination of boilerplate in the code through abstraction, tools familiar to your team, such as IDEs and linters. […]

Live and learn. Part 3. Additional education or the age of the eternal student

So, you graduated from university. Yesterday or 15 years ago, it doesn’t matter. You can exhale, work, stay awake, shy away from solving specific problems and narrow your specialization as much as possible in order to become an expensive professional. Well, or vice versa - choose what you like, delve into various fields and technologies, look for yourself in a profession. I’m done with my studies, finally [...]

Big data big billing: about BigData in telecom

In 2008, BigData was a new term and fashionable trend. In 2019, BigData is an object of sale, a source of profit and a reason for new bills. Last fall, the Russian government initiated a bill to regulate big data. Individuals may not be identified from information, but may do so at the request of federal authorities. Processing BigData for third parties – only after […]

What is the impact of internet outages?

On August 3 in Moscow, between 12:00 and 14:30, the Rostelecom AS12389 network experienced a small but noticeable subsidence. NetBlocks considers what happened to be the first “state shutdown” in the history of Moscow. This term refers to the shutdown or restriction of access to the Internet by authorities. What happened in Moscow for the first time has been a global trend for several years now. Over the past three years, 377 targeted […]

How powerful earthquakes in Bolivia opened mountains 660 kilometers underground

All schoolchildren know that planet Earth is divided into three (or four) large layers: the crust, the mantle and the core. This is generally true, although this generalization does not take into account several additional layers identified by scientists, one of which, for example, is the transition layer within the mantle. In a study published on February 15, 2019, geophysicist Jessica Irving and master's student Wenbo Wu […]

In which countries is it profitable to register IT companies in 2019

IT business remains a high-margin area, far ahead of manufacturing and some other types of services. By creating an application, game or service, you can work not only in local but also in international markets, offering services to millions of potential customers. However, when it comes to running an international business, any IT specialist understands: a company in Russia and the CIS loses in many ways […]