Author: ProHoster

How we built a company in Silicon Valley

View of San Francisco from the east side of the bay Hello Habr, In this post I will talk about how we built a company in silicon valley. In four years, we've gone from a two-person start-up in the basement of a building in San Francisco to a large, recognizable company with over $30M in investments from reputable funds, including […]

Unboxing Huawei CloudEngine 6865 is our choice for moving to 25Gbps

With the growth of the mClouds.ru cloud infrastructure, we needed to put into operation new 25 Gbps switches at the server access level. We will tell you how we chose Huawei 6865, unpack the equipment and tell you our first impressions of operation. Shaping requirements Historically, we have had positive experiences with both Cisco and Huawei. We use Cisco for routing, and Huawei for […]

Easy work with complex alerts. Or the history of Balerter

Everyone loves alerts. Of course, it's much better to be notified when something happened (or fixed) than to sit back and look at charts and look for anomalies. And there are many tools for this. Alertmanager from the Prometheus ecosystem and vmalert from the VictoriaMetrics product group. zabbix notifications and alerts in Grafana. Self-written scripts on bash and Telegram bots that periodically pull some […]

Video: the new season of "Resistance" has begun in For Honor

In the medieval multiplayer action game For Honor, the 17rd season of Resistance began on September 3 as part of the 4th year of support for the game. Previously, we saw a story trailer dedicated to the new season, and now Ubisoft has presented videos telling the actual events of the game. The season brought new armor, weapons, events, a battle pass and much more. The dark Order of Gorkos appeared in the world of the game, [...]

$7200 Corsair Vengeance i2800 Gaming Desktop Features 10-Core Intel Comet Lake Chip

Corsair has unveiled a new gaming-grade desktop computer, the Vengeance i7200, powered by the Intel Comet Lake hardware platform and the Windows 10 Home operating system. The desktop is built on a Core i9-10850K processor. This chip contains ten computing cores with the ability to simultaneously process up to 20 instruction threads. The nominal clock frequency is 3,6 GHz, the maximum is 5,2 GHz. Volume […]

Rumors: the remaster of the first Onimusha failed in sales and blocked the way for re-releases of the following parts

Trusted insider AestheticGamer (aka Dusk Golem) commented on the successes of the Onimusha: Warlords remaster and possible re-releases of the next parts of Capcom's samurai action games on his microblog. According to AestheticGamer, Capcom released the updated Onimusha: Warlords as a test for consumer interest in the franchise. As it turns out, the public is not interested in Onimusha at all: “[Re-release] […]

Red Hat Develops New NVFS, Efficient for NVM Memory

Mikuláš Patočka, one of the developers of LVM and the author of a number of inventions related to optimizing the operation of storage systems, working at Red Hat, presented a new NVFS file system on the Linux kernel developer mailing list, aimed at creating a compact and fast file system for chips non-volatile memory (NVM, non-volatile memory, such as NVDIMM), combining the performance of RAM with the ability […]

Compiler release for the Vala programming language 0.50.0

A new version of the compiler for the Vala programming language 0.50.0 has been released. Vala code is translated into a C program, which in turn is compiled into a binary file and executed at the speed of the application compiled into object code on the target platform. Vala is the most used language in GNOME after C (C, Vala, Python, C++), and is also the main language in […]

Mozilla is shutting down Firefox Send and Firefox Notes services

Mozilla has decided to close the Firefox Send and Firefox Notes services. Firefox Send has officially stopped working as of today (in fact, access was stopped back in July), and Firefox Notes will be decommissioned on November 1st. The freed up resources are planned to be used to develop the Mozilla VPN, Firefox Monitor and Firefox Private Network services. The service works [...]

Gentoo announced a binary build of gentoo-kernel-bin

The Gentoo Distribution Kernel project has published new Linux kernel packages. Kernel with genpatches applied, built using a package manager, with default settings or custom configuration sys-kernel / gentoo-kernel Pre-built (binary) version of gentoo-kernel sys-kernel / gentoo-kernel-bin Unmodified vanilla kernel sys -kernel / vanilla-kernel The main difference between using Distribution Kernels is the ability to update to new versions during the general update […]

Free webinar "Kubespray Features Overview"

Why Kubespray? We encountered Kubernetes just over two years ago - before that we had experience with Apache Mesos and we successfully abandoned docker swarm. Therefore, the development of k8s immediately followed the Brazilian system. No minicubes or management solutions from Google. Kubeadm did not know how to assemble an etcd cluster at that moment, but […]

Zabbix online meetup and Q&A session with Alexey Vladyshev

On September 29, we will hold the fourth online meetup in Russian. The opening speech, as well as the Q&A session, will be hosted by the creator and CEO of Zabbix Alexey Vladyshev. We invite you to listen to interesting and useful reports and do not miss the opportunity to ask questions directly to the creator of our monitoring solution. Registration for the event is already open. Program: 10:00 […]