Author: ProHoster

Network-as-a-Service for a large enterprise: a non-standard case

How to update network equipment in a large enterprise without stopping production? Linxdatacenter project management manager Oleg Fedorov talks about a large-scale project in “open heart surgery” mode. Over the past few years, we have noted increased customer demand for services related to the network component of the IT infrastructure. The need for connectivity of IT systems, services, applications, monitoring tasks and operational management of business […]

First look: how the new corporate mail system Mailion from MyOffice works

Almost four years ago, we started designing a brand new distributed mail system called Mailion, which is designed for corporate communications. Our solution is built on Cloud Native microservice architecture, capable of working with more than 1 users at the same time and will be ready to cover 000% of the needs of large corporations. During the work on Mailion, the team has grown several times, and […]

Why is my NVMe slower than an SSD?

In this article, we will look at some of the nuances of the I / O subsystem and their impact on performance. A couple of weeks ago I ran into a question why NVMe on one server is slower than SATA on another. I looked at the characteristics of the servers and realized that it was a trick question: NVMe was from the user segment, and SSD was from the server segment. It's obvious that […]

1. Training users in the basics of information security. Fight against phishing

Today, a network administrator or an information security engineer spends a lot of time and effort to protect the perimeter of an enterprise network from various threats, masters new systems for preventing and monitoring events, but even this does not guarantee him complete security. Social engineering is actively used by attackers and can have serious consequences. How often have you caught yourself […]

Moving to ClickHouse: 3 years later

Three years ago, Viktor Tarnavsky and Alexey Milovidov from Yandex on the HighLoad ++ stage told how good ClickHouse is and how it does not slow down. And on the next stage was Alexander Zaitsev with a report on moving to ClickHouse from another analytical DBMS and with the conclusion that ClickHouse, of course, is good, but not very convenient. When in 2016 the company […]

GIGABYTE equips new Brix Pro nettops with Intel Tiger Lake processors

GIGABYTE has announced Brix Pro small form factor desktops powered by 7th Gen Intel Core processors from the Tiger Lake hardware platform. The BSi1165-7G5, BSi1135-7G3 and BSi1115-4G7 models debuted, equipped with the Core i1165-7G5, Core i1135-7G3 and Core i1115-4GXNUMX chips, respectively. The integrated Intel Iris Xe accelerator is responsible for graphics processing in all cases. Nettops are contained in [...]

New article: JBL Boombox 2 speaker review: Powerful bass on land and in the water

Almost any HARMAN speaker system produced under the JBL brand is always distinguished by an incredibly attractive design, unusual features and, of course, high sound quality. The latter is aimed, as a rule, at a young audience who prefers music of electronic genres, pop music, rap, hip-hop and other areas where bass coloring is important. What can we hide here - many people love JBL precisely for its expressive bass, [...]

New article: Sony WH-1000XM4 review: Headphones that listen to you

Apple's refusal of the mini-jack in the iPhone 7 caused a real boom in wireless headphones - everyone is now making their own Bluetooth headsets, the variety is off the charts. For the most part, these are, however, ordinary small headphones that do not put much emphasis on sound quality and comfort. Which is logical - full-size wireless headphones have been around for quite some time, but for a long time music lovers […]

OpenCL 3.0 final specifications published

The Khronos concern, responsible for developing the OpenGL, Vulkan and OpenCL family specifications, announced the publication of the final OpenCL 3.0 specifications, which define APIs and extensions of the C language for organizing cross-platform parallel computing using multi-core CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, DSPs and other specialized chips. from those used in supercomputers and cloud servers, to chips found in […]

Release of nginx 1.19.3 and njs 0.4.4

The main branch of nginx 1.19.3 has been released, within which the development of new features continues (in the parallel supported stable branch 1.18, only changes related to the elimination of serious errors and vulnerabilities are made). Main changes: The ngx_stream_set_module module is included, which allows you to assign a value to the variable server { listen 12345; set $true 1; } Added proxy_cookie_flags directive to specify flags for […]

Pale Moon Browser 28.14 Release

The Pale Moon 28.14 web browser was released, branching from the Firefox code base to provide higher performance, preserve the classic interface, minimize memory consumption and provide additional customization options. Pale Moon builds are created for Windows and Linux (x86 and x86_64). The project code is distributed under the MPLv2 (Mozilla Public License). The project adheres to the classic interface organization, without […]

After a year of silence, a new version of the TEA editor (50.1.0)

Despite the addition of just a number to the version number, there are many changes in the popular text editor. Some are invisible - these are fixes for old and new Clangs, as well as the removal of a number of dependencies to the category of disabled by default (aspell, qml, libpoppler, djvuapi) when building with meson and cmake. Also, during the developer’s unsuccessful tinkering with the Voynich manuscript, TEA […]