We are excited to share the news that Contour is hosted in the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) project incubator. If you haven't heard of Contour, it's a simple and scalable open source ingress controller for routing traffic to applications running on Kubernetes. We will take a detailed look at how it works, show the development roadmap at upcoming Kubecon conferences […]
A distinctive feature of public goods is that a significant number of people benefit from their use, and limiting their use is impossible or inappropriate. Examples include public roads, security, research and open source software. The production of such goods, as a rule, is not profitable for individuals, which often leads to insufficient […]
According to statistics, only 1% of startups survive. We will not talk about the reasons for this level of mortality, this is not our business. Rather, we will tell you how to increase the likelihood of survival with the help of competent IT infrastructure management. In the article: typical mistakes of startups in IT; how a managed IT approach helps to avoid these mistakes; instructive examples from practice. What is wrong with IT at startups […]
Alibaba could be the next target for US sanctions as President Donald Trump confirmed his intention to begin putting pressure on other Chinese companies like the tech giant following the TikTok ban. When asked by a journalist at a press conference on Saturday whether there were other companies from China on the agenda that he was considering for […]
Working as the CEO of two large corporations - Twitter and Square - is a source of stress for anyone, but for Jack Dorsey (pictured) it was the catalyst for making major changes in his life. Dorsey says that after he became CEO of Twitter again in 2015, he instituted a tough […]
Publisher Deep Silver and German studio King Art presented a trailer for the dieselpunk RTS Iron Harvest in the alternative 1920s. Previously, videos were released dedicated to the factions Rusvet (reminiscent of a mixture of the Russian Empire and the USSR in an alternative past) and Saxony (reinterpreted Germany). Now a trailer has been released focusing on Polania (dieselpunk Poland). There is no gameplay here, but the entire video called “The Art of […]
The developers of the KDE project have published the release of the video editor Kdenlive 20.08, which is positioned for semi-professional use, supports working with video recordings in DV, HDV and AVCHD formats, and provides all the basic video editing operations, for example, allowing you to arbitrarily mix video, sound and images using the timeline, and also apply numerous effects. When running the program, external components such as [...]
The essence of what happened In May 2020, a group of exit nodes was discovered that interfered with outgoing connections. In particular, they left almost all connections intact, but intercepted connections to a small number of cryptocurrency exchanges. If users visited the HTTP version of the site (i.e., unencrypted and unauthenticated), malicious hosts were prevented from redirecting to the HTTPS version (i.e., encrypted and authenticated). If the user did not notice the substitution [...]
There is a lot of information on the web about SMART and attribute values. But I have not seen mention of several important points that I know about from people involved in the study of storage media. When I once again told a friend why SMART readings should not be unconditionally trusted and why it’s better not to use the classic “SMART monitors” all the time, I […]
In my work, I often experience obsessions about the lack of information about the infrastructure, and with an increase in the fleet of serviced servers, this turns into real torture. Even when I was an administrator in small organizations, I always wanted to know what was where, where it was plugged in, which of the people was responsible for which piece of hardware or service, and most importantly, to fix […]
Hi all! In this article, I want to share one of the ways to run JMeter performance tests in OpenShift using Jenkins as an automation. First, we will do all the necessary actions (creating ImageStreams, BuildConfig, Job, etc.) manually. After that, we will write the Jenkins Pipeline. As a starting point, we should have: a running OpenShift (v3.11) Jenkins cluster […]
The author of the IT blog @evleaks Evan Blass regularly reveals reliable information about new products from the world of smartphones. This time, he unveiled a poster that sheds light on some of the technical specifications of the mid-range Moto E7 Plus. The image indicates the presence of a Snapdragon 460 processor. This chip was announced back in January, but the first devices based on it will arrive […]
