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The Slurm-3 intensive on Kubernetes ended on Sunday. We set a personal record: 132 participants, 65 online and 67 in-person. The first Slurm had 50 people, the second 87. We are gradually growing. 126 people created a cluster (the first day's task), and 115 completed the practical work. 6 people completely ignored the practice. We'll assume they only needed […]
From May 27-29, we are hosting the fourth Slyurm: an intensive course on Kubernetes. Bonus: online courses on Docker, Ansible, and Ceph. We have derived topics from Slyurm that are important for working with Kubernetes but are not directly related to k8s. How, why, and what we achieved — read on. All participants of Slyurm-4 will receive access to these courses. Full money-back guarantee on the first day in St. Petersburg […]
The system will cut energy costs in half. / photo Andy Melton CC BY-SA Why is a new architecture needed? According to Data Centre Dynamics, by 2030, electronic devices will consume 40% of all energy produced on the planet. Approximately 20% of this will be attributed to the IT sector and data centers. According to European analysts, data centers already "take" 1.4% of all […]
Last week I attended the IT conference DUMP (https://dump-ekb.ru/) in Yekaterinburg and want to share what was discussed in the Backend and DevOps sections, and whether regional IT conferences are worth attending. Nikolai Sverchkov from Evil Martians on Serverless What was it all about? The conference had a total of 8 sections: Backend, Frontend, Mobile, Testing and QA, DevOps, […]
Microsoft's tech support warns that there may be issues when installing the large May update — Windows 10 May 2019 Update. The reason is the blocking of the system update on devices with an external hard drive or flash drive connected via USB, as well as with a memory card inserted in a card reader, if present on the PC or laptop. If an update is initiated on a computer with connected external drives, […]
In addition to the Coffee Lake-H Refresh mobile processors, Intel has today officially introduced new 9th generation Core desktop processors that also belong to the Coffee Lake Refresh family. A total of 25 new models were introduced, most of which are Core processors with a locked multiplier, meaning they are not overclockable. The most advanced new entry in the Core family is the Core […]
Three and a half years ago, the "most legal company in Silicon Valley," as Rambus is quietly called, decided to work on a new image. Around that time, the company underwent a change in leadership, with a new director promising to transform Rambus into a fabless developer of various interesting solutions. The company's first product was buffers for DDR4 server memory and regular memory. The company does not disclose details, but only […]
Researchers from NCC Group revealed details of a vulnerability (CVE-2018-11976) in Qualcomm chips, allowing the extraction of closed encryption keys located in the isolated Qualcomm QSEE enclave (Qualcomm Secure Execution Environment), based on ARM TrustZone technology. The issue manifests in most Snapdragon SoCs found in Android platform smartphones. Fixes addressing the problem have already been included in the April update […]
BioWare announced that it is postponing major updates for Anthem that were previously scheduled for this month. The developers acknowledged that it is much more important to focus on the project's quality. "We are paying more attention to things like bug fixes, stability, and gameplay flow than to new first act features," wrote BioWare's lead producer Ben Irving and the head of […]
Previously, we discussed Continuous Integration (CI). Let's continue with Continuous Delivery. This is a set of software development methods. It helps ensure that the code is ready for deployment. / Pixabay / bluebudgie / PL History The phrase continuous delivery was mentioned in the Agile Manifesto from 2001 at the start of the list of core principles: "Priority is given to solving customer problems with […]
Microsoft SQL Server 2017 has been available for full use on RHEL 7 since October 2017, and in working on RHEL 8 Beta, Red Hat closely collaborated with Microsoft to enhance performance and provide support for a wider array of programming languages and application frameworks, offering developers a broader selection of available tools for their next application. […]
To ensure high effectiveness of information security measures, the communication between its components plays a significant role. It allows for closing off not only external but also internal threats. When designing network infrastructure, every protection measure is crucial, whether it's antivirus software or a firewall, to ensure they function not only within their class (Endpoint security or NGFW) but also have the capability to […]