Author: ProHoster

Medium Weekly Digest #3 (July 26 – Aug 2, 2019)

Those who are willing to give up their freedom to gain short-lived protection from danger deserve neither freedom nor safety. — Benjamin Franklin This digest is intended to increase the Community's interest in the issue of privacy, which in the light of recent events is becoming more relevant than ever before. On the agenda: The Medium Root CA certification authority introduces certificate verification using the OCSP protocol Features […]

Polycom Video Conference Solutions. Memories 6 years later… Stage 2 Part 1 RMX1500

Good afternoon, colleagues. Finally, the time has come to fulfill the promise and tell how it all continued and ended. I apologize for being so late. There will be 2 parts: RMX1500 CMA4000 The text below will contain many letters and may cause an incorrect assessment of my attitude to this decision. In conclusion, I will reveal that I have an even and good attitude towards Polycom, […]

Is Kafka on Kubernetes good?

Greetings, Habr! At one time, we were the first to introduce the Kafka topic to the Russian market and continue to monitor its development. In particular, we found the topic of interaction between Kafka and Kubernetes interesting. A review (and rather cautious) article on this topic was published on the Confluent blog back in October last year, authored by Gwen Shapira. Today we […]

Five students and three distributed key-value stores

Or how we wrote a client C++ library for ZooKeeper, etcd and Consul KV In the world of distributed systems, there are a number of typical tasks: storing information about the composition of the cluster, managing the configuration of nodes, detecting faulty nodes, choosing a leader, and others. To solve these problems, special distributed systems have been created - coordination services. Now we will be interested in three of them: ZooKeeper, […]

Excursion in light green tones

The most important transport problem in St. Petersburg is bridges. At night, because of them, you have to run away from the tavern without finishing your beer. Well, or pay twice as much for a taxi as usual. In the morning, carefully calculate the time so that as soon as the bridge is closed, you make it to the station like a nimble mongoose. We don’t […]

Start in Data Science course: the first step in working with data

We are launching a new course for beginners - “Start in Data Science”. For just 990 rubles, you will immerse yourself in Data Science: learn about specializations, choose a profession and improve your skills in working with data. Data Science is the science of data and its analysis. Many people think that entering the field is very difficult: it’s tedious, long, and requires a physics and mathematics education. But […]

Digital events in Moscow from 05 to 11 August

A selection of events for the week. ok.tech: Data Talk #2 August 07 (Wednesday) Leningradsky pr 39str79 free On August 7, ok.tech: Data Talk #2 will take place at the Moscow office of Odnoklassniki. This time the event will be dedicated to education in Data Science. Now there is such a hype around working with data that only the lazy have not thought about getting an education in the field of Data Science. […]

Ubisoft talks about a lot of optimizations for Ghost Recon Breakpoint for PC

In May, Ubisoft unveiled the next game in its third-person military shooter series, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Breakpoint. The project will be a development of the ideas of Ghost Recon Wildlands, but its action will be transferred to the near alternative future, to a mysterious and dangerous open world on the Auroa archipelago. And this time you will have to fight with other Ghosts - like [...]

Bypassing the LinkedIn search limit by playing with the API

Limit There is such a limitation on LinkedIn - Commercial Use Limit. It is extremely likely that you, like me until recently, have never encountered or heard of it. The essence of the limit is that if you use the search for people outside your contacts too often (there are no exact metrics, the algorithm decides, based on your actions, how often […]

How to stop doing the same thing

Do you like to repeat routine operations over and over again? So I don't. But every time in the SQL client when working with the Rostelecom storage, I had to register all the joins between the tables manually. And this despite the fact that in 90% of cases the fields and conditions for joining tables coincided from request to request! It would seem that any SQL client has autocomplete functions, but […]

Biostar X570GT motherboard allows you to create a compact PC

Biostar has announced the X570GT motherboard, designed for building computers based on AMD processors in the Socket AM4 version. The new product uses the AMD X570 system logic set. Processors with a maximum thermal dissipation value (TDP) of up to 105 W can be used. The use of DDR4-2933(OC)/3200(OC)/3600(OC)/4000+(OC) RAM is supported. The system can use up to 128 GB of RAM. To connect drives [...]

Technical support for one ... two ... three ...

Why do you need special software for technical support, especially if you already have a bug tracker, CRM and email? It’s unlikely that anyone has thought about this, because most likely companies with strong technical support have had a help desk system for a long time, and the rest deal with customer requests and requests “on the knee,” for example, using email. And this is fraught: [...]