An extremely unpleasant story happened to one of my acquaintances. However, as unpleasant as it was for Mikhail, it was equally entertaining for me. I must say, my friend is quite a UNIX user: he can install the system himself, set up MySQL, PHP, and make basic Nginx configurations. He has about a dozen or so websites dedicated to construction tools. One of those sites focuses on chainsaws tightly […]
On September 17, the Raiffeisen Bank Acceleration Team invites you to its first open Meetup, which will take place at the office in Nagatino. Trends in DevOps, building pipelines, managing product releases, and much more about DevOps! That evening, experiences and knowledge will be shared by: Mikhail Bijan, Raiffeisen Bank. TRENDS AND TENDENCIES IN THE DEVOPS INDUSTRY RIGHT NOW. Following the event that took place in June in London […]
Hello, Community! My name is Mikhail Podivilov. I am the founder of the public organization 'Medium'. I have been repeatedly asked to write a brief but comprehensive guide on how to connect to the decentralized Internet service provider 'Medium' in overlay mode, that is, without directly connecting to the operator's router 'Medium', but by using the Internet and Yggdrasil as transport. In […]
Google has released the open mobile platform Android 10. The source code related to this release is available in the Git repository of the project (branch android-10.0.0_r1). Firmware updates have already been prepared for 8 Pixel series devices, including the original Pixel model. Universal GSI (Generic System Images) builds suitable for various devices based on ARM64 and x86_64 architectures have also been created. […]
The release of the web browser Firefox 69 has taken place, along with the mobile version Firefox 68.1 for the Android platform. Additionally, long-term support updates for versions 60.9.0 and 68.1.0 have been formed (the ESR branch 60.x will no longer be updated, and transitioning to branch 68.x is recommended). The Firefox 70 branch will enter beta testing shortly, with a release scheduled for October 22. Key innovations include: […]
Michael Stapelberg, the author of the i3wm tiling window manager and a former active Debian developer (maintainer of around 170 packages), is developing an experimental distribution called distri and the namesake package manager. The project is positioned as an exploration of potential ways to increase the performance of package management systems and embodies some new ideas for building distributions. The package manager's code is written in the Go language and is distributed under […]
The Go programming language 1.13 has been released, featuring major updates: The Go language now supports a more unified and modernized set of numeric literal prefixes, including for binary, octal, hexadecimal, and imaginary literals. Compatibility with Android 10 has been improved. TLS 1.3 support is enabled by default in the crypto/tls package. Error wrapping support for Unicode 11.0 is now available from the Go Unicode package. This is the last […]
Firefox 69 has been released. Key changes include: By default, blocking scripts that perform cryptocurrency mining is enabled. The setting 'Do not allow websites to play sound' allows blocking not only sound playback without explicit user interaction but also video playback. Behavior can be set globally or specifically for individual sites. An about:protections page has been added with statistics on tracking protection performance. The manager […]
On September 3, the Android mobile operating system development team published the source code of version 10. New features in this release include: Support for resizing the output image in applications for devices with foldable displays when opening or closing. 5G network support and an expanded corresponding API. The Live Caption feature, which converts speech to text in any application. Especially […]
In the previous article, we discussed attempts to use Watcher and presented a test report. We periodically conduct such tests for load balancing and other critical functions of a large enterprise or operator cloud. The high complexity of the task may require several articles to describe our project. Today, we are publishing the second article in the series, focusing on load balancing virtual machines in the cloud. A bit of terminology […]
In large cloud systems, the issue of automatic load balancing or resource allocation becomes particularly pressing. This concern has been addressed by Tionix (a developer and operator of cloud services, part of the Rostelecom group). Since our main development platform is OpenStack, and we, like everyone else, are a bit lazy, we decided to select a ready-made module that […]
Introduction Hello, friends! I was surprised to notice that there aren't many articles on Habr dedicated to products from the vendor [Extreme Networks](https://tssolution.ru/katalog/extreme). To address this and familiarize you more with the Extreme product line, I plan to write a small series of articles, starting with switches for enterprises. The series will include the following articles: Overview […]