Author: ProHoster

Blue-Green Deployment at minimum wages

In this article, we use bash, ssh, docker, and nginx to seamlessly lay out a web application. Blue-green deployment is a technique that allows you to instantly update an application without rejecting a single request. It is one of the zero downtime deployment strategies and is best suited for applications with one instance, but the ability to load a second, ready-to-run instance nearby. […]

The legendary Windows 95 is 25 years old

The day of August 24, 1995 was marked by the official presentation of the legendary Windows 95, thanks to which operating systems with a graphical user shell went to the masses, and Microsoft gained wide popularity. 25 years later, let’s try to figure out why Windows won the hearts of billions of users around the world. One of the most important features of Windows 95 was that the operating system allowed […]

TikTok sues the US presidential administration

The Chinese company TikTok filed a lawsuit against the US presidential administration on Monday. It is noted that TikTok management tried to find contact with the American leadership, offered various options for resolving the issue, but the States ignored all legal procedures and tried to interfere in commercial negotiations. “The [President Trump] administration has ignored all of our active and good-faith attempts to resolve the issue. We regard the claim […]

EA releases trailer for NHL 21 starring Alexander Ovechkin - the game will be released on October 16

Electronic Arts has released another trailer for NHL 21. The main character of the video is Russian hockey player Alexander Ovechkin. The developers also announced the release date of the project - the simulator will be released on October 16. The video is a compilation of various moments from Ovechkin’s career: selected episodes are even reflected in the game. The developers probably recreated some of the athlete's movements in NHL 21. The visuals are accompanied by comments [...]

NetBSD Kernel Adds VPN WireGuard Support

The developers of the NetBSD project announced the inclusion of the wg driver with the implementation of the WireGuard protocol in the main NetBSD kernel. NetBSD became the third OS after Linux and OpenBSD with integrated support for WireGuard. Related commands for configuring VPN are also offered - wg-keygen and wgconfig. In the default kernel configuration (GENERIC), the driver is not yet activated and requires explicit […]

IceWM 1.8 window manager release

The lightweight window manager IceWM 1.8 is available. IceWM features include full control via keyboard shortcuts, the ability to use virtual desktops, the taskbar and menu applications. The window manager is configured through a fairly simple configuration file; themes can be used. Built-in applets are available for monitoring CPU, memory, and traffic. Separately, several third-party GUIs are being developed for configuration, implementation of working […]

FreeBSD codebase moved to use OpenZFS (ZFS on Linux)

The FreeBSD upstream (HEAD) implementation of the ZFS file system has been migrated to use OpenZFS code, developing the "ZFS on Linux" codebase as the ZFS reference variant. In the spring, FreeBSD support was moved to the main OpenZFS project, after which the development of all FreeBSD-related changes continued there, and FreeBSD developers were able to quickly transfer […]

Firefox 80

Firefox 80 is available. It is now possible to designate Firefox as the system PDF viewer. The loading and processing of the list of malicious and problematic add-ons has been significantly accelerated. This innovation will be ported to the ESR release, because it is expensive to maintain two different blacklist formats, and the developers did not have time to include the change in the 78th release (on which the current ESR branch is formed) due to a last-minute discovery [ …]

Nintendo Portable Consoles: From Game & Watch to Nintendo Switch

For the past 40 years, Nintendo has been actively experimenting in the field of mobile gaming, trying different concepts and creating new trends that other game console manufacturers have picked up after it. During this time, the company has created a lot of portable gaming systems, among which there were practically no frankly unsuccessful ones. The quintessence of years of research by Nintendo was supposed to be the Nintendo Switch, but something […]

Extending Spark with MLflow

Hello, Khabrovites. As we already wrote, this month OTUS launches two courses on machine learning at once, namely basic and advanced. In this regard, we continue to share useful material. The purpose of this article is to talk about our first experience with MLflow. We will start the MLflow review from its tracking server and prolog all iterations of the study. Then we will share […]

InterSystems IRIS is a universal real-time AI/ML platform

Author: Sergey Lukyanchikov, InterSystems Consulting Engineer Real-time AI/ML Computing Challenges Let's start with examples from InterSystems' Data Science practice: A "loaded" buyer portal is connected to an online recommender system. Restructuring of promotions on the scale of the retail network is coming (for example, instead of a “flat” line of promotions, the “segment-tactics” matrix will now be used). What happens to recommenders? What happens with the submission and updating of data [...]

Despite the release of the PlayStation 5, the most popular console in the Christmas sale will be Switch

Ahead of the launch of the PlayStation 5, a Japanese industry firm is predicting that the Nintendo Switch will triumph over Sony's anticipated console. The 2020 holiday season is just around the corner and many are eagerly awaiting the launch of the PS5. But according to analysts, the PlayStation 5 (and Xbox Series X) may not be able to outsell the tried-and-true variant in recent months […]