Author: ProHoster

cert-manager 1.0 released

If you ask an experienced, wise engineer what he thinks about cert-manager and why everyone uses it, the specialist will sigh, hug him confidentially and say wearily: “Everyone uses it, because there are no sane alternatives. Our mice cry, prick, but continue to live with this cactus. Why do we love? Because it works. Why don't we love? Because new versions are constantly coming out, [...]

How we built a backup power supply system at the Tushino data center: engineering and finance

The Tushino data center is a commercial retail half-megawatt data center for everyone and everything. The client can not only rent already installed equipment, but also place his own equipment there, including non-standard devices such as servers in conventional cases for desktop PCs, mining farms or artificial intelligence systems. Simply put, these are a variety of popular tasks most in demand by domestic businesses of varying degrees of magnitude. […]

Are intensives necessary for those who live beyond the Urals?

If you live + many hours from Moscow and study at the courses at night, pay attention. For three years, Slurm conducted face-to-face intensives in Moscow and St. Petersburg, and then the coronavirus came, and we moved to an online format. It turned out that the Irkutsk citizen, studying from home, starts his studies at 15:00 and ends at midnight. To make it even more fun, the bosses think that […]

Tesla's German facility to offer cutting-edge electric vehicle production methods

Elon Musk's visit to Germany was indeed not without loud statements on his part. He not only praised the qualifications of local engineers, but also promised that the most advanced technologies will be used at the Tesla plant under construction in the vicinity of Berlin, which will surpass existing production in the United States. Musk promised to reveal additional details at the Battery […]

The Razer Naga Pro adapts to any gaming genre

Razer has announced the Naga Pro computer mouse, which features the ability to adapt to games of different genres. In addition, the new product offers three ways to exchange data with a computer. The manipulator received three replaceable side panels. One of them contains 12 buttons, making it well suited for massively multiplayer online games (MMO) and real-time strategy (RTS). Second panel […]

Paradise Lost: the developers of the Mafia remake showed a new trailer and talked about collectibles

Developer studio Hangar 13 and publisher 2K have published a new trailer for Mafia: Definitive Edition and shared details about the collectibles system in the upcoming game. The video in question is less than a minute long and promises a "recreated from the ground up" Lost Haven with "colorful and distinct neighborhoods" as well as features authentic to the 1930s: endemic corruption and Prohibition. More details about [...]

Analysis of the activity of attackers associated with the selection of passwords via SSH

The results of an analysis of attacks related to the selection of passwords for servers via SSH have been published. During the experiment, several honeypots were launched, pretending to be an available OpenSSH server and hosted on various networks of cloud providers such as Google Cloud, DigitalOcean and NameCheap. Over three months, 929554 attempts to connect to the server were recorded. In 78% of cases, the selection was aimed at [...]

Acceleration Community Meetup 10/09

On September 10, we invite you to the online meetup of the Acceleration Community: let's go from Agile and DORA metrics to services that simplify the life of an engineer as much as possible; we will find out what customers really want when they talk about DevOps, and what is now relevant to study in the technology stack. Registration is free, join us! What we will talk about The evolution of IT transformation — from Agile and DORA metrics to […]

Advanced cycling or client-server application based on C# .Net framework

Introduction It all started when a colleague suggested that I create a small web service. It was supposed to be something like a tinder, but for an IT hangout. The functionality is utterly simple, you register, fill out a profile and move on to the main point, namely, finding an interlocutor and expanding your connections and making new acquaintances. Here I must take a digression and […]

Logging in Kubernetes: how to collect, store, parse and process logs

Let's take a look at the basics of logging in Docker and Kubernetes, and then look at two tools that can be safely used in production: Grafana Loki and the EFK stack (Elasticsearch + Fluent Bit + Kibana). The material of the article is a squeeze from an open lecture of the Slurm school. If there is a desire, and even more so if there is a production need, you can undergo full training - sign up for a […]

Crysis Remastered system requirements appeared in EGS - enough GTX 1050 Ti to run

The system requirements for Crysis Remastered have been published on the Epic Games Store. To run the re-release, you will need an Intel Core i5-3450 processor and a GTX 1050 Ti-level video card with 4 GB of memory. Minimum OS system requirements: Windows 10 (64 bit); processor: Intel Core i5-3450 or AMD Ryzen 3; RAM: 8 GB; video card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti or […]

MSI Unveils Thin and Light Summit Laptops with Intel Tiger Lake Processors

Micro-Star International held a virtual event to introduce a number of new products. Among them was a new series of compact Summit business laptops based on Intel 11th generation Tiger Lake-U mobile processors. MSI Summit laptops are represented by the Summit B14, Summit B15, Summit E14 and Summit E15 models. All new products feature an attractive minimalist design, a white backlit keyboard, and […]