Almost every successful business application eventually reaches a stage where horizontal scaling is necessary. In many cases, you can simply launch a new instance and reduce the average load. However, there are less trivial situations where we must ensure that different nodes are aware of each other and carefully distribute the workload. Fortunately, it turns out that Erlang, which we […]
Opera 58 for Android is now available, bringing users several new features designed to enhance performance and usability. The company stated that the update contains fewer new functions than usual; however, all the new capabilities should significantly improve the browsing experience. Today's update greatly enhances the visual aspect of the Speed Dial feature and simplifies the editing and deletion of pinned items. […]
The release of CoreBoot 4.12 has been announced, which develops a free alternative to proprietary firmware and BIOS. 190 developers participated in the creation of the new version, preparing 2,692 changes. Key innovations: Support for 49 motherboards has been added, most of which are used in devices with Chrome OS. Support for 51 motherboards has been removed. The removal mainly concerns the discontinuation of support for outdated […]
A new version of the notcurses library v1.4.x has been released, "the saga continues! wu-tang! wu-tang!" Notcurses is a TUI library for modern terminal emulators. Literally translated – not curses. It is written in C, using C++-safe headers. Wrappers for Rust, C++, and Python are available. What it is: a library that simplifies complex TUI on modern terminal emulators, fully supporting vibrant […]
The Zabbix team is pleased to announce the release of the new version Zabbix 5.0 LTS, which focuses on security and scalability. The new version is even more user-friendly, secure, and accessible. The main strategy followed by the Zabbix team is to make Zabbix as widely available as possible. It is a free open-source solution, and now Zabbix can be deployed both locally and […]
In the current COVID-19 pandemic, many challenges have arisen that hackers have eagerly taken advantage of. From face shields printed on 3D printers and homemade medical masks to the replacement of full mechanical ventilators – this flow of ideas has inspired and delighted the soul. At the same time, there have been attempts to advance in another area: in research aimed at […]
The release of Proxmox Virtual Environment 6.2 has taken place, a specialized Linux distribution based on Debian GNU/Linux, aimed at deploying and managing virtual servers using LXC and KVM, and capable of replacing products such as VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Citrix Hypervisor. The size of the installation ISO image is 900 MB. Proxmox VE provides tools for deploying a fully ready virtual system […]
The release of the free antivirus package ClamAV 0.102.3 has been announced, which addresses two vulnerabilities (CVE-2020-3327, CVE-2020-3341) that could lead to crashes when parsing specifically crafted ARJ archives and PDF documents due to out-of-bounds read conditions. The new release also fixes several memory leaks. The libclamunrar library has been updated to UnRAR 5.9.2. Source: opennet.ru
The release of the open-source monitoring system Zabbix 5.0 LTS has occurred. Zabbix is a versatile system for monitoring the performance and availability of servers, engineering and networking equipment, applications, databases, virtualization systems, containers, IT services, web services, and cloud infrastructure. The system implements a complete cycle from data collection, processing and transformation, analysis of the received data, to data storage, […]
What principles underpin the ideal Data Warehouse? A focus on business value and analytics without boilerplate code. Managing a DWH like a codebase: versioning, reviews, automated testing, and CI. Modularity, extensibility, open source, and community. Friendly user documentation and visualization of dependencies (Data Lineage). More on all this and the role of DBT in the Big Data ecosystem […]
Hello, Habr users! Welcome to our corporate blog at Snom on Habr, where we plan to publish a series of reviews of our products and services in the near future. The blog will be managed by our team responsible for business in the CIS markets. We will gladly answer your questions and provide any consultation or assistance. We hope to […]
Recently, devices supporting Wi-Fi 6 (IEEE 802.11ax) have entered the market, which has been widely discussed. However, few people know that the development of the next generation of Wi-Fi technology — Wi-Fi 7 (IEEE 802.11be) — is already underway. This article discusses what Wi-Fi 7 will entail. Background In September 2020, we will celebrate the 30th anniversary of the IEEE project […]