Author: Yuri Gagarin

2. Elastic stack: analyzing security logs. Logstash

In the previous article, we introduced the ELK stack and its components. The first task an engineer faces when working with the ELK stack is sending logs for storage in Elasticsearch for subsequent analysis. However, this is easier said than done; Elasticsearch stores logs as documents with specific fields and values, meaning […]

Release of Easy Buster 2.2 distribution developed by the author of Puppy Linux

Barry Kauler, the founder of the Puppy Linux project, presented the experimental Easy Buster 2.2 distribution, which attempts to use container isolation along with Puppy Linux technologies. The distribution offers the Easy Containers mechanism for running applications or the entire desktop in an isolated container. The release of Easy Buster is based on Debian 10 package base. The distribution is managed through developed […]

Available web browser Min 1.12

The release of the Min 1.12 web browser has been published, offering a minimalist interface focused on addressing the address bar. The browser is created using the Electron platform, enabling the development of standalone applications based on the Chromium engine and Node.js platform. The Min interface is written in JavaScript, CSS, and HTML. The code is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. Builds are available for Linux, macOS, and Windows. Min supports navigation […]

Release of phpMyAdmin 5.0, the web interface for administering MySQL databases

After six years since the branch 4.0 was formed, phpMyAdmin 5.0 has been released, a web interface for managing MySQL and MariaDB databases. The application allows for managing databases, tables, columns, relationships within databases, indexes, users, permissions, executing SQL queries, importing and exporting data, visually viewing the structure, performing global searches across the database, and transforming stored data (for example, for viewing saved images) […]

Zulip 2.1

The release of Zulip 2.1 has been introduced, a server platform for deploying corporate messengers suitable for facilitating communication among employees and development teams. The project was originally developed by Zulip and was made open-source after its acquisition by Dropbox under the Apache 2.0 license. The server-side code is written in Python using the Django framework. The client software is available for Linux, Windows, macOS, Android, and […]

23 minutes. Justification of the slow thinkers

I always thought I was slow-witted. More precisely, I thought I was a dimwit. This manifested simply: during meetings and discussions, I couldn't quickly come up with solutions. Everyone else was talking about something, sometimes insightful, while I sat there in silence. It was even a bit uncomfortable. Everyone else also thought I was slow-witted. As a result, I stopped being invited to meetings. They invited […]

What to read during the holidays

Long holidays are ahead, which means it’s time to revisit your Read later bookmarks or reread important articles from the past year. In this post, we have compiled and prepared a list of the most interesting materials from our blog for 2019 and hope you find them useful. The past year has been interesting and […]

When VACUUM stumbles — clean the table manually

VACUUM can only 'clear' from a table in PostgreSQL what nobody can see — that is, there are no active queries that started before those records were changed. But what if there's an unpleasant type (a prolonged OLAP load on an OLTP database)? How can one clean an actively changing table in an environment with long-running queries without stumbling over the rake? […]

More than 200 new features have appeared in MyOffice.

Hello Habr, this is MyOffice. The year 2019 was significant for us. More and more users trust us. The number of licenses sold is measured in hundreds of thousands, and over 1 million free licenses have been provided to the education system. The rapid growth in the number of clients prevents us from resting on our laurels. We are constantly improving the product, including working on unique features that […]

Meet: the new solution Veeam Backup for AWS

At the beginning of December, Veeam Backup for AWS was released, providing a solution for backing up and recovering Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) cloud infrastructures. With it, you can create backups of EC2 instances and store them in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) cloud storage, as well as create EC2 snapshot chains in native format. For […]

The nDPI 3.0 deep packet inspection system is available.

The ntop project, which develops tools for traffic capture and analysis, has released the nDPI 3.0 package inspection toolkit, continuing the development of the OpenDPI library. The nDPI project was founded after an unsuccessful attempt to contribute changes to the OpenDPI repository, which is no longer maintained. The nDPI code is written in C and is distributed under the LGPLv3 license. The project allows for identifying the protocols used in the traffic […]

Release of the open billing system ABillS 0.82

The release of the open billing system ABillS 0.82 is now available, with components provided under the GPLv2 license. New features include: An Android application ABillS Lite has been created. Internet+ module. An option has been added that allows for duplicating CPE MAC. The linkupdown script has been updated to handle Service ID. The linkupdown script has been updated to work with subscribers' multi-services. Manual activation for negative sessions. Creation of pools for quick authorization […]

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