Annotation The whole world is talking about Artificial Intelligence, but here lies the paradox! — there is still no common, understandable, logically structured, and profound definition of 'intelligence' (not even artificial intelligence) available! Why not take the courage to attempt to find and propose such a definition? After all, a definition — […]
In this blog, there have been quite a few programmer anecdotes. I enjoy reminiscing about my old foolishness. Well, here’s another such story. I first became interested in computers, particularly programming, when I was about 11 years old. At the beginning of middle school, I spent most of my free time tinkering with my C64 and coding in BASIC, and then I would cut out the bad […]
Hello, Habr! After the New Year holidays, we have relaunched the disaster recovery cloud based on two sites. Today, we will explain how it works and show what happens to client virtual machines when certain cluster elements fail and an entire site goes down (spoiler – they are all fine). The storage system of the disaster recovery cloud at the OST site. What’s inside Under the hood of the cluster are Cisco servers […]
Russian publishing houses are suffering losses of 55 billion rubles a year due to piracy, reports Vedomosti. The total volume of the book market is 92 billion. The main culprit is said to be the blocked (but not banned) messenger Telegram in Russia. According to Maxim Ryabiko, the General Director of the Association for the Protection of Rights on the Internet (AZAPI), around 200 channels are distributing […]
WAL-G is a simple and effective tool for backing up PostgreSQL to the cloud. In terms of its core functionality, it is a successor to the popular WAL-E tool, but rewritten in Go. However, WAL-G has one important new feature — delta backups. WAL-G delta backups store the file pages that have changed since the previous backup version. WAL-G implements a lot of technologies for parallel processing […]
Welcome to our next mini-course. This time we will talk about our new service — CheckFlow. What is it? Essentially, it is just a marketing name for a free audit of network traffic (both internal and external). The audit is conducted using the wonderful tool Flowmon, which any company can use for free, for […]
Although serverless technologies have rapidly gained popularity in recent years, there are still many misconceptions and concerns associated with them. Vendor lock-in, toolsets, cost management, cold start, monitoring, and development lifecycle — all these topics are actively discussed when it comes to serverless technologies. In this article, we will look at some of the mentioned topics and also share […]
At RIT 2019, our colleague Alexander Korotkov delivered a presentation on automating development at CIAN: to simplify life and work, we use our own platform Integro. It tracks the lifecycle of tasks, removes routine operations from developers, and significantly reduces the number of bugs in production. In this post, we will supplement Alexander's presentation and describe how we went from simple […]
No, launching a decentralized application (dapp) on blockchain will not guarantee business success. In fact, most users don't even consider whether the application runs on blockchain—they simply choose the product that is cheaper, faster, and easier. Unfortunately, even if blockchain has its unique features and advantages, most applications that run on it are much more expensive, […]
In the whirlwind of holidays and the various events following the break, it could be easy to overlook that the long-awaited release of Veeam Availability Suite version 10.0 will be available very soon—in February. There has been a lot of material released about the new features, including presentations at online and offline conferences, blog posts, and discussions in various communities in different languages. For those, […]
The upcoming Windows 10 20H1 build, also known as version 2004, will feature many new capabilities upon release. One of the innovations will be the optional status of Paint and WordPad. These two programs are among the oldest, and it seems they will be installable or removable independently, just like any other applications. Testing in build 19041, which was conducted […]
Hello everyone. With the upcoming launch of a new group for the 'Linux Administrator' course, we are publishing useful material written by our student and course mentor, technical support specialist for corporate products at REG.RU — Roman Travin. This article will cover two cases of replacing disks and transferring data to new, larger disks with subsequent array and file system expansion. The first […]