Many of the first Internet providers, particularly AOL, were not ready to offer unlimited access in the mid-90s. This situation persisted until an unexpected rule breaker emerged: AT&T. Recently, discussions around the Internet have focused on its 'bottlenecks'. This is quite logical, considering that everyone is now at home trying to connect to Zoom using a 12-year-old cable modem. […]
Description of Sentry — an exception monitoring tool for errors in your applications. Key features: easily integrates into your project, catches errors both in the user's browser and on your server. Free to use, error lists update in real-time. If an error marked as resolved appears again, it is recreated and tracked in a separate stream. Errors are grouped […]
At the GitHub Satellite conference, which is being held virtually this time, several new services were introduced: Codespaces — a full-fledged integrated development environment that allows direct participation in code creation through GitHub. The environment is based on the open-source code editor Visual Studio Code (VSCode), which runs in the browser. In addition to writing code, it offers features such as building, testing, debugging, […]
The release of the Linux distribution Clonezilla Live 2.6.6 is now available, designed for fast disk cloning (only used blocks are copied). The tasks performed by the distribution are similar to those of the proprietary product Norton Ghost. The size of the ISO image of the distribution is 277 MB (i686, amd64). The distribution is based on Debian GNU/Linux and utilizes code from projects such as DRBL, Partition Image, ntfsclone, partclone, and udpcast. Booting is possible from […]
Hello, Habr! Do you enjoy flying on planes? I love it, but during self-isolation, I've also started analyzing data on airfares from a well-known resource — Aviasales. Today we will explore Amazon Kinesis, build a streaming system with real-time analytics, set up the NoSQL database Amazon DynamoDB as the main data warehouse, and configure alerts via SMS for interesting […]
Note: This is a translation of a public postmortem from the engineering blog of Preply. It describes an issue with conntrack in a Kubernetes cluster that led to partial downtime of certain production services. This article may be useful for those who want to learn a bit more about postmortems or prevent potential DNS issues in the future. This is not DNS It cannot be […]
Creative Assembly and SEGA have announced Total War: Elysium—a collectible card game that will be distributed under a freemium model. In the project, players will form decks from various historical figures and troops, with all events taking place in the fictional city of Elysium. According to the PCGamesN resource citing the official press release, the project resembles other representatives of the genre, and […]
As technology companies experiment with various ways to launch products during the era of social distancing, Google has announced that the first public beta of the Android 11 platform will be presented on June 3 during an online broadcast on YouTube. The company has released a promotional video for the online event The Beta Launch Show, scheduled for the mentioned date. It is expected that this event will […]
The release of the free distribution OpenIndiana 2020.04 has taken place, succeeding the binary distribution OpenSolaris, the development of which was discontinued by Oracle. OpenIndiana provides users with a working environment built on a fresh slice of the Illumos project codebase. The development of OpenSolaris technologies continues through the Illumos project, which is advancing the kernel, network stack, file systems, drivers, and the basic set of user system utilities […]
The release of the specialized distribution Tails 4.6 (The Amnesic Incognito Live System) has been formed, based on the Debian package base and designed to ensure anonymous internet access. Anonymous access in Tails is provided by the Tor system. All connections, except for traffic through the Tor network, are by default blocked by a packet filter. For storing user data in save mode between sessions, […]
Firefox 76 is available. Password Manager: It now warns you if your saved login and password for a site were compromised in a leak associated with that site, as well as if the saved password was found in a leak from another site (which is why it's advisable to use unique passwords). The leak check does not expose the user's logins and passwords to the remote server: the login and […]
Preface Just a week ago, I wrote a paper on the topic indicated in the title and found that, shall we say, there isn't much enlightening information available online. Mostly dry facts and setup instructions. Therefore, I decided to tweak the text a bit and post it as an article. What is FTP FTP (File Transfer Protocol) – […]