Author: ProHoster

December 11-13 online intensive SRE: One of the most demanded IT professions in the world

Just as recently there was a fashion and a high demand for DevOps engineers, now recruiters of the largest companies are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer. It is enough to go to the websites of the largest companies, leaders of the IT market, to be convinced of this. Apple, Google, Booking, Amazon. Site Reliability Engineering is the ticket to the open world of IT. Any country, any IT company. From Apple to Google For three […]

Building a network infrastructure based on Nebula. Part 1 - Challenges and Solutions

The article will discuss the problems of organizing network infrastructure in the traditional way and methods for solving the same issues using cloud technologies. For reference. Nebula is a SaaS cloud environment for remotely maintaining network infrastructure. All Nebula-enabled devices are managed from the cloud via a secure connection. You can manage a large distributed network infrastructure from a single center without […]

Creating a MySQL Backup Using the XtraBackup Utility

Percona XtraBackup is a hot backup utility for MySQL databases. When creating a data backup, no tables are locked, and your system continues to operate without any restrictions. XtraBackup 2.4 can back up InnoDB, XtraDB and MyISAM tables on MySQL 5.11, 5.5, 5.6 and 5.7 servers, as well as Percona server for MySQL with XtraDB. To work with MySQL 8.x, you must use XtraBackup 8.x. In this […]

The afterlife adventure puzzle I Am Dead will be released on October 8 - pre-orders have already started

Publisher Annapurna Interactive and developer Hollow Ponds have revealed the final release date for their puzzle adventure I Am Dead in a new trailer. Let us remember that until recently the release of I Am Dead was expected before the end of September, but the developers were slightly behind the announced deadlines. Now the game's premiere is scheduled for October 8 this year. On the appointed day I Am […]

The average price of smartphones jumped by 10% amid the pandemic

Counterpoint Technology Market Research analyzed the situation in the global smartphone market in the second quarter of this year. The industry is undergoing a transformation due to the pandemic and the development of fifth generation (5G) mobile communications. It is noted that last quarter the market showed the largest decline in history. Smartphone sales fell by almost a quarter - by 23%. This is due to self-isolation [...]

Apple releases Swift 5.3 programming language and open source code for Swift System library

Apple has announced the open source of the Swift System library, which provides an idiomatic set of programming interfaces to system calls and low-level data types. Swift System originally only supported system calls for Apple platforms, but has now been ported to Linux. The Swift System code is written in the Swift language and is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license. Swift System provides a single point […]

Wine 5.18 release

An experimental release of an open implementation of WinAPI - Wine 5.18 - took place. Since the release of version 5.17, 42 bug reports have been closed and 266 changes have been made. The most important changes: wined3d now supports compilation of shaders via the Vulkan API using the vkd3d-shader library supplied as part of the vkd3d package. The USER32B library has been converted to PE format. The console implementation is free of dependencies […]

PostgreSQL 13

On September 24, the development team announced the release of the next Postgresql release number 13. The new release focused, among other things, on improving performance, speeding up internal maintenance services and simplifying database monitoring, as well as more reliable system access control. Work continued on optimizing table indexing in terms of processing duplicates among indexed data in binary […]

Caliber 5.0

Calible 5.0, a cataloguer, viewer and editor for e-books, has been released. The key changes in the new version are the new ability to highlight, highlight and add annotations to fragments of text, as well as a complete transition to Python 3. In the new release, you can select the text you are interested in and apply color highlighting to it, as well as formatting styles (underlining, strikethrough …) And […]

How to Manage Cloud Infrastructure with Terraform

In this article, we will look at what Terraform consists of, and we will also gradually launch our own infrastructure in the cloud with VMware - we will prepare three VMs for different purposes: proxy, file storage, and CMS. About everything in detail and in three stages: Terraform - description, benefits and components Creation of infrastructure Initialization of infrastructure Terraform work with existing infrastructure 1. […]

Running Linux Apps on a Chromebook

The advent of the Chromebook was a big deal for American education systems, allowing them to buy low-cost laptops for students, teachers, and administrators. Although Chromebooks have always run a Linux-based operating system (Chrome OS), until recently, most Linux-based applications could not run on them. However, that all changed when Google released Crostini, a virtual machine that allows […]