Author: ProHoster

Why AIOps and umbrella monitoring for a bank, or what relationships with a client are built on

In publications on Habré, I have already written about my experience of building partnerships with my team (here we talk about how to draw up a partnership agreement when starting a new business so that the business does not fall apart). And now I would like to talk about how to build partnerships with clients, because without them there will be nothing to fall apart. I hope […]

Partnership agreement or how not to ruin a business at the start

Imagine that you, together with your colleague, the lead programmer with whom you have worked for the last 4 years in the bank, come up with something unimaginable that the market needs so much. You have chosen a good business model and strong guys have joined you in the team. Your idea has acquired quite tangible features and the business has practically begun to bring money. If you do not follow the rules of hygiene at all, be toxic, […]

“You can die very quickly”: Sucker Punch talked about the principles of Ghost of Tsushima game design

Ghost of Tsushima director Nate Fox and art director Jason Connell shared new details about the samurai action game in a recent episode of the official PlayStation podcast. The idea of ​​using nature (wind, animals) as a guide for gamers came to the developers from films about samurai. The authors want to encourage users to "look at the game world, not the interface." […]

Is it possible to become a programmer from scratch

Modern technologies make it possible to master almost any new profession without experience and at any age, even if it is related to such a popular IT area as software development. And specialized courses are best suited for this. For example, the GeekBrains portal. More than 4 million people already use it, and this is what they value most in learning. Popular […]

Mozilla will completely get rid of Flash in December with the release of Firefox 84

Adobe Systems is going to stop supporting the once popular Flash technology once and for all at the end of this year, and browser developers have been preparing for this historical moment for several years by gradually winding down support for the standard. Mozilla recently announced when it will take the final step in eliminating Flash from Firefox in an effort to improve security. Flash technology support will be fully [...]

The Free Call service to 8-800 numbers in Russia is gaining popularity

The TMT Consulting company has studied the Russian market for the “Free Call” service: the demand for corresponding services in our country is growing. We are talking about numbers 8-800, calls to which are free for subscribers. As a rule, customers of the Free Call service are large companies operating at the federal level. But interest in these services is also growing in the segment of small and medium-sized businesses. […]

“Denuvo is a cancerous tumor”: players bombarded DOOM Eternal with negative reviews due to anti-cheat

Last week, id Software added the Denuvo anti-cheat to DOOM Eternal shooter to rid the Battlemode multiplayer mode of cheaters using banned software. After that, the players began to massively complain about crashes and the lack of the opportunity to quietly have fun in the single player campaign. And now dissatisfied buyers have moved to more active actions - they have bombarded DOOM Eternal on Steam with […]

NVIDIA Orin processors will get Ampere generation integrated graphics

The automotive electronics segment is characterized by a very long product development cycle, so NVIDIA is forced to introduce new products in it several years before they appear in mass-produced vehicles. This month it's time to announce that future Orin processors will have Ampere architecture integrated graphics. NVIDIA already talked about Orin generation Tegra processors in December […]

NVIDIA EGX A100: Ampere-Based Edge Computing Platform

Today's NVIDIA event clearly prioritized the expansion of Ampere architecture GPUs. They will first appear in the server segment, and the peripheral computing sector is no exception. By the end of the year, NVIDIA EGX A100 accelerators with an integrated Mellanox controller will be offered for it. Even the coronavirus pandemic cannot completely stop the expansion of 5G communication networks. […]

psi-notify 1.0.0 resource shortage notifier released

A release of the psi-notify 1.0 program has been published that can warn when there is contention for resources (cpu, memory, I/O) in the system in order to take action before the system slows down. The code is open source under the MIT license. The application runs at the level of an unprivileged user, and uses the PSI (Pressure Stall Information) kernel subsystem, which […]

A wave of supercomputer hacks for cryptocurrency mining

In several large computing clusters located in supercomputer centers in the UK, Germany, Switzerland and Spain, traces of hacking of the infrastructure and installation of malware for the hidden mining of the Monero cryptocurrency (XMR) were detected. A detailed analysis of the incidents is not yet available, but according to preliminary data, the systems were compromised as a result of the theft of credentials from the systems of researchers who had access to run tasks in […]