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Last summer, we announced in the Optane blog the Optane DC Persistent Memory — Optane memory based on 3D XPoint modules in DIMM format. As stated then, the delivery of Optane modules began in the second quarter of 2019, and by that time, enough information had accumulated that was missing during the announcement. So, beneath the cut […]
Before we drink from the cup of fate, dear, let us drink from another cup, together. Perhaps a sip before death will not be denied us by heaven in its madness. Omar Khayyam. Spiritual prisons. The meal was very delicious. It must be admitted that the cooking here was excellent. At exactly half-past two, as I had arranged with Nastya, I awaited her in the alley from which […]
Mozilla has introduced the first trial release of the Firefox Preview browser, developed under the codename Fenix and aimed at initial testing by interested enthusiasts. The release is distributed through the Google Play catalog, and the code is available on GitHub. After stabilizing the project and implementing all intended features, the browser will replace the current version of Firefox for Android, with new releases of which being discontinued starting […]
Hello, Habr! At Badoo, we are actively working on PHP performance, as we have a large system built on this language and performance is a matter of cost savings. Over ten years ago, we created PHP-FPM, which initially started as a set of patches for PHP but later became part of the official distribution. In recent years, PHP has significantly […]
Developing high-load projects in any language requires a special approach and the use of specific tools, but when it comes to PHP applications, the situation can escalate to the point where one has to develop, for example, a custom application server. This note will address the familiar pain of distributed session storage and data caching in memcached, and how […]
Everything in a person should be excellent, and everything in a modern data center should operate like a Swiss watch. No component of the complex architecture of a data center's engineering systems should be left unattended by the operations team. These considerations guided us at the Linxdatacenter facility in St. Petersburg as we prepared for Uptime Management & Operations certification in 2018, ensuring all systems […]
I would like to present an excerpt from this recently released book: Ontological Modeling of an Enterprise: Methods and Technologies [Text]: monograph / [S. V. Gorshkov, S. S. Kralin, O. I. Mushtak, et al.; Editor S. V. Gorshkov]. — Yekaterinburg: Publishing House of Ural Federal University, 2019. — 234 p.: ill., tables; 20 cm. — Authors are listed on the back of the title page. — Bibliography in […]
I have no doubt that noble lords — Linux administrators — strive to minimize the number of packages installed on the server. This is more cost-effective, safer, and instills a sense of complete control and understanding of the processes at hand for the administrator. Therefore, the typical scenario for the initial installation of the operating system involves choosing a minimal variant, which is then filled with necessary packages. However, the minimal option proposed by the CentOS installer […]
A second release candidate of the installer for the next major release of Debian 10 "Buster" is now available. There are currently 75 critical bugs blocking the release (down from 98 two weeks ago and 132 one and a half months ago). The Testing branch has been put into a state of full freeze regarding changes (with exceptions only for emergency interventions). The final release of Debian 10 is expected on July 6. Compared to […]
In short, In 2017, an article appeared on Habr titled "A draft national standard NB-FI for the Internet of Things was submitted to Rosstandart." In 2018, the technical committee on "Cyber-Physical Systems" worked on three IoT projects: GOST R "Information Technologies. Internet of Things. Terms and Definitions," GOST R "Information Technologies. Internet of Things. Reference Architecture of the Internet of Things and Industrial Internet of Things," […]
Hello everyone! I want to share quite an unusual experience and add to the wonderful article by bvitaliyg about how to reach the sky and become a pilot. I'll talk about how I moved to a New Zealand village near Hobbiton to take the controls and learn to fly. How it all began I am 25, and I have been working in the IT industry my entire conscious life and not […]
Riseup has launched a new and easy-to-use VPN service — no configuration required, no registration, and no SMS. Riseup is one of the oldest non-profit organizations developing and offering users services for safe and private work on the internet. The service is based on Bitmask, which was previously created as part of the LEAP encryption access project. The goal of creating Bitmask is […]