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Today's post is dedicated to the profession of product manager. Many have heard about this role, but not everyone knows what this person actually does. Therefore, we've created a sort of introduction to the profession, explaining the necessary qualities and the tasks tackled by product managers. Becoming a professional in this field is not easy. A potential product manager must embody a variety of qualities, […]
The Russian cloud services market barely accounts for one percent of the total global cloud revenue in monetary terms. Nonetheless, international players occasionally emerge, claiming their intention to compete for a place under the Russian sun. What can we expect in 2019? Below is the opinion of Konstantin Anisimov, CEO of Rusonyx. In 2019, the Dutch company Leaseweb announced its desire to provide […]
Nintendo shared how the Nintendo Labo: VR Kit is used in the adventurous action game The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. The Nintendo Labo: VR Kit for Nintendo Switch is set to go on sale today, April 19. An update that supports virtual reality for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild will be released on April 26. The technical director […]
Variti develops bot protection and DDoS attack prevention, as well as conducts stress and load testing. At the HighLoad++ 2018 conference, we discussed how to secure resources against various types of attacks. To put it briefly: isolate parts of the system, use cloud services and CDN, and regularly update. However, without specialized security companies, you won't be able to manage on your own 🙂 Before reading […]
Four vulnerabilities have been identified in the drivers for Broadcom wireless chips. In the simplest case, these vulnerabilities could be exploited to remotely trigger a denial of service, but scenarios are not excluded in which exploits could be developed, allowing an unauthenticated attacker to execute their code with Linux kernel privileges by sending specially crafted packets. The issues were revealed during reverse engineering […]
Andrey Kopylov, our technical director, loves, actively uses, and advocates for Docker. In a new article, he explains how to create users in Docker. Proper management of users, why users should not be left with root privileges, and how to solve the issue of indicator mismatch in Dockerfile. All processes in the container will run as the root user unless specified otherwise. This may seem very convenient, as this user […]
The topic of fault tolerance in storage systems is always relevant, as in our age of widespread virtualization and resource consolidation, a storage system is the component whose failure will lead not just to a minor incident, but to prolonged service downtimes. Therefore, modern storage systems consist of many redundant components (including controllers). But is this protection sufficient? Absolutely all […]
Many Enterprise applications and virtualization systems have their own mechanisms for building fault-tolerant solutions. In particular, Oracle RAC (Oracle Real Application Cluster) represents a cluster of two or more Oracle database servers working together to balance the load and ensure fault tolerance at the server/application level. To operate in this mode, a shared storage is required, acting as […]
Many popular Android applications from the major Chinese developer DU Group, including a selfie app with 50 million downloads, are used for fraud, misuse of user permissions, intrusive advertising, and more. In particular, they send data to China. This was reported by BuzzFeed.News. The company has an audience of over a billion worldwide and claims to […]
Valve has released a build of the Proton project 4.2-3, which is based on the work of the Wine project and aims to enable the launch of Linux gaming applications created for Windows and listed in the Steam catalog. The project's developments are distributed under the BSD license. As new features are finalized in the original Wine and related projects, such as DXVK and vkd3d, the changes developed in Proton are transferred over. […]
Mozilla has unveiled the WebThings platform after two years of experimentation and development, which incorporates previously developed projects WebThings Framework and WebThings Gateway, providing components for accessing various categories of consumer devices and utilizing the universal Web Things API for interacting with them. The project's developments are released under the MPL 2.0 license. The WebThings Framework offers a set of interchangeable components for […]
Preface or how the idea of partitioning arose The story begins here: Do you remember how it all started? Everything was new and unprecedented. After nearly all resources for query optimization had been exhausted at that moment, the question arose—what next? Thus, the idea of partitioning emerged. A lyrical digression: It was 'at that moment', because […]