Author: ProHoster

SimInTech - the first simulation environment in Russia, import substitution, competition with MATLAB

Engineers around the world develop in MATLAB, it is their favorite tool. Can the Russian IT industry offer a worthy alternative to expensive American software? With this question, I came to Vyacheslav Petukhov, the founder of the 3V Service company, which produces the domestic simulation and development environment SimInTech. After trying to sell his development in America, he returned to Russia […]

Building Optimized Docker Images for a Spring Boot Application

Containers have become the preferred means of packaging an application with all its software and operating system dependencies and then delivering them to different environments. This article covers different ways to containerize a Spring Boot application: building a Docker image using a Dockerfile, building an OCI image from source using Cloud-Native Buildpack, and optimizing the image at runtime by […]

Chrome starts activating IETF QUIC and HTTP/3

Google has announced that it has begun replacing its own version of the QUIC protocol with the version developed in the IETF specification. Google's version of QUIC used in Chrome differs in some details from the version in the IETF specifications. At the same time, Chrome supports both protocol options, but still used its QUIC option by default. Starting today, 25% of stable users […]

GitHub Docs Open Source

GitHub announced the open source of the docs.github.com service, and also published the documentation posted there in Markdown format. The code can be used to create interactive sections for viewing and navigating project documentation, originally written in Markdown format and translated into different languages. Users can also propose their edits and new documents. In addition to GitHub, the specified […]

Chrome Release 86

Google has unveiled the release of the Chrome 86 web browser. At the same time, a stable release of the free Chromium project, which serves as the basis of Chrome, is available. The Chrome browser is distinguished by the use of Google logos, the presence of a system for sending notifications in case of a crash, the ability to download a Flash module on request, modules for playing protected video content (DRM), a system for automatically installing updates, and transmitting RLZ parameters when searching. The next release of Chrome 87 […]

The first engineering sample of the Elbrus-16C microprocessor was received

The new processor based on the Elbrus architecture has the following characteristics: 16 cores 16 nm 2 GHz 8 memory channels DDR4-3200 ECC Ethernet 10 and 2.5 Gbps 32 PCIe 3.0 lanes 4 SATA 3.0 channels up to 4 processors in NUMA up to 16 TB in NUMA 12 billion. transistors The sample has already been able to run the Elbrus OS on the Linux kernel. […]

Microsoft porting Wayland to WSL2

Quite interesting news was published on ZDNet: Wayland has been ported to Windows Subsystem for Linux 2, which will allow you to run graphical applications from Linux on Windows 10. They worked before, but for this you had to install a third-party X server, and with the porting of Wayland everything will work right away same. In fact, the user will see an RDP client through which he will see the application. […]

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation is ready to purchase computers with pre-installed Astra Linux OS

The Ministry of Internal Affairs plans to purchase desktop computers pre-installed with Astra Linux OS for its units in 69 cities throughout Russia, with the exception of Crimea. The department plans to purchase 7 sets of a system unit, monitor, keyboard, mouse and webcam. The amount is 770 million rubles. set as the initial maximum contract price in the thematic tender of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. It was announced […]

Graceful shutdown of VMWare ESXi hypervisor at critical battery level of APC UPS

There are many articles out there about how to configure PowerChute Business Edition and how to connect to VMWare from PowerShell, but somehow I couldn’t find all this in one place, with a description of the subtle points. But they exist. 1. Introduction Despite the fact that we have some relation to energy, problems with electricity sometimes arise. This is where […]

GitOps: another buzzword or a breakthrough in automation?

Most of us, noticing another new term in the IT blogosphere or conference, sooner or later ask a similar question: “What is this? Just another buzzword, a “buzzword” or something truly worthy of close attention, study and promise of new horizons?” The same thing happened to me with the term GitOps some time ago. Armed with many existing articles, as well as knowledge […]

Welcome to the Live Webinar - Process Automation with GitLab CI/CD - Oct 29, 15:00 -16:00 (MST)

Expanding your knowledge and moving to the next level Are you just starting to learn the basic principles of Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery or have you already written dozens of pipelines? Regardless of your level of knowledge, join our webinar to understand in practice why thousands of organizations around the world choose GitLab as a key tool for automating IT processes. […]

Scientists have identified 24 planets with better conditions for life than on Earth

Just recently, it would have seemed surprising that astronomers could use telescopes to observe planets around stars hundreds of light years away from our system. But this is so, in which space telescopes launched into orbit greatly helped. In particular, the Kepler mission, which over a decade of work has collected a base of thousands of exoplanets. These archives still need to be studied and studied, and new approaches to [...]