Heading: Administration

Internet providers ask the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications to let them into houses without a contract

Photo source: Evgeny Astashenkov / Interpress / TASS Several major federal Internet providers immediately turned to the head of the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications, Konstantin Noskov, with a request to support a project to liberalize access to apartment buildings by approving some amendments to the law “On Communications”. Among other applicants are MegaFon, MTS, VimpelCom, ER-Telecom Holding and the Rosteleset association, as reported by Kommersant. The project itself is about facilitating access […]

Enterprise IT infrastructure maturity levels

Annotation: Levels of maturity of the enterprise's IT infrastructure. Description of the advantages and disadvantages of each level separately. Analysts say that in a typical situation, more than 70% of the IT budget is spent on maintaining the infrastructure - servers, networks, operating systems and drives. Organizations, realizing how necessary it is to optimize the IT infrastructure and how important it is for it to be cost-effective, come to the conclusion that […]

NetBIOS in the hands of a hacker

This article will briefly talk about what such a familiar-looking thing as NetBIOS can tell us. What information can it provide for a potential attacker/pentester. The demonstrated scope of reconnaissance techniques relates to internal, that is, isolated and inaccessible networks. As a rule, any even the smallest company has such networks. Myself […]

Terraform provider Selectel

We have launched the official Terraform provider to work with Selectel. This product allows users to fully implement resource management through the Infrastructure-as-code methodology (infrastructure as code). Currently, the provider supports resource management of the Virtual Private Cloud (hereinafter referred to as VPC) service. In the future, we plan to add resource management of other services provided by Selectel to it. As you already know, the VPC service is built […]

How to move, upload and integrate very large data cheaply and quickly? What is pushdown optimization?

Any operation with big data requires large computing power. A typical move of data from a database to Hadoop can take weeks or cost as much as an airplane wing. Don't want to wait and spend? Balance the load across different platforms. One way is pushdown optimization. I asked Aleksey Ananiev, the leading Informatica product development and administration trainer in Russia, to […]

Kubernetes 1.14: Highlights of what's new

This night will be the next release of Kubernetes - 1.14. According to the tradition that has developed for our blog, we talk about the key changes in the new version of this wonderful Open Source product. The information used to prepare this material is taken from the Kubernetes enhancements tracking table, CHANGELOG-1.14 and related issues, pull requests, Kubernetes Enhancement Proposals (KEP). Let's start with an important introduction from SIG cluster-lifecycle: dynamic […]

Classification of handwritten drawings. Report in Yandex

A few months ago, our colleagues from Google held a competition on Kaggle to create a classifier for images obtained in the sensational game “Quick, Draw!”. The team, which included Yandex developer Roman Vlasov, took fourth place in the competition. At the January training session on machine learning, Roman shared the ideas of his team, the final implementation of the classifier, and interesting practices of his rivals. - Hi all! […]

The whole history of Linux. Part I: where it all began

The Linux kernel turns 27 this year. OS based on it is used by many corporations, government, research institutions and data centers around the world. For more than a quarter of a century, many articles have been published (including on Habré) that tell about different segments of the history of Linux. In this series of materials, we decided to highlight the most significant and interesting facts […]

The whole history of Linux. Part II: corporate twists and turns

We continue to recall the history of the development of one of the most significant products in the open source world. In the last article, we talked about the developments that preceded the advent of Linux, and told the story of the birth of the first version of the kernel. This time we will focus on the period of commercialization of this open OS, which began in the 90s. / Flickr / David Goehring / CC BY / Photo modified […]

What is generative music

This is a podcast with content creators. The guest of the issue is Alexey Kochetkov, CEO of Mubert, with a story about generative music and his vision of the future of audio content. listen in Telegram or in a web player subscribe to a podcast in iTunes or on Habré Alexey Kochetkov, CEO Mubert alinatestova: Since we are not only talking about text and conversational […]

You may not need Kubernetes

Girl on a scooter. Freepik illustration, Nomad logo by HashiCorp Kubernetes is a 300kg container orchestration gorilla. It works in some of the largest container systems in the world, but it comes at a cost. Especially expensive for small teams that have to spend a lot of time on support and a steep learning curve. For our team of four, that's too much overhead […]

Devops Revenge: 23 Remote AWS Instances

If you fire an employee, be extremely polite to him and make sure that all his requirements are met, give him recommendations and severance pay. Especially if this is a programmer, system administrator, or a person from the DevOps department. Incorrectness on the part of the employer can be costly. In the British city of Reading ended the trial of 36-year-old Stefan Needham (Steffan Needham, pictured). After […]