Weather Deity by Remarin The Mail.ru Cloud Solutions team offers a translation of an article by engineer Rahul Bhatia from Clairvoyant about what file formats are in big data, what are the most common features of Hadoop formats, and what format is better to use. Why different file formats are needed A major performance bottleneck in HDFS-enabled applications such as MapReduce and […]
The beta version of the Xbox Store on PC has finally received an update that will allow players to officially access modifications for games. The Xbox app on PC will allow Xbox Game Pass subscribers to access their games on a personal computer, and also includes other games (some of which are not yet available on Steam). Beta users have long […]
Independent team GameTomo announced the development of a rather cute adventure game Sumire for Steam and Switch during the ongoing Japanese festival Indie Live Expo 2020. Sumire is a narrative game that all takes place over the course of one day in a mystical Japanese-style village. The main heroine Sumire is given a list of tasks that the mischievous spirit of the mountain must complete, and […]
Bungie Studios held the first in-game event in Destiny 2 in real time. On the evening of June 6, shooter users could watch the destruction of the Almighty ship by the military intelligence Rasputin. The Almighty is a giant ship that can destroy planets and stars. In Season 10, it was captured by the Red Legion, after which players had to prepare a defense against it. Attack […]
The idea of maintaining satellites in orbit is attractive due to its economic feasibility. It promises income for both service providers and cost savings for companies operating satellites, which is also a lot of money. Also, service satellites can clear orbits of space debris, and this also saves on launches. Today, the Japanese company Astroscale has decided to enter this new business, […]
The Center for Operation of Ground-Based Space Infrastructure Facilities (TSENKI) released a video dedicated to the construction of the Vostochny cosmodrome, located in the Far East in the Amur region. We are talking, in particular, about the creation of a second launch pad intended for launching heavy-class missiles of the Angara family. Construction of this complex began last year. Work is progressing at an increasing pace and should be completed in 2022. […]
HP has announced a new solid-state drive, the Portable SSD P500: a pocket-sized storage device capable of storing 1 TB of information. The product uses a USB 3.2 Gen1 interface based on a symmetrical USB Type-C connector to connect to a computer. The same port is used to supply power - no additional source is required. It is claimed that the new product provides information reading speeds of up to 420 [...]
Introduced the release of the free 3D modeling package Blender 2.83, which includes more than 1250 fixes and improvements in the three months since the release of Blender 2.82. The main attention in preparing the new version was focused on optimizing performance - the work of undo, sketch pencil and rendering preview has been accelerated. Support for adaptive sampling has been added to the Cycles engine. Added new sculpting tools […]
Oracle has published a corrective release of the VirtualBox 6.1.10 virtualization system, which contains 7 fixes. Major changes in release 6.1.10: In additions for guest systems and in the host environment, support for the Linux 5.7 kernel is provided; In the settings when creating new virtual machines, audio inputs and outputs are disabled by default; Guest Additions now handle resizing […]
Valve has published the release of the Proton 5.0-8 project, which is based on the developments of the Wine project and is aimed at enabling gaming applications created for Windows and presented in the Steam catalog to run on Linux. The developments of the project are distributed under the BSD license. Proton allows you to directly run Windows-only game applications on the Steam Linux client. The package includes a DirectX implementation […]
Transcription of the 2015 report by Alexey Lesovsky "Deep dive into PostgreSQL internal statistics" Disclaimer from the author of the report: I note that this report is dated November 2015 - more than 4 years have passed and a lot of time has passed. Version 9.4 discussed in the report is no longer supported. Over the past 4 years, 5 new releases have been released in which a lot of innovations, improvements […]
Six months ago, we introduced explain.tensor.ru, a public service for parsing and visualizing query plans for PostgreSQL. Over the past months, we made a report about it at PGConf.Russia 2020, prepared a general article on speeding up SQL queries based on the recommendations it gives... but most importantly, we collected your feedback and looked at real use cases. And now we're ready […]
