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On September 19, the first themed meetup HUG (Highload++ User Group) dedicated to microservices took place in Moscow. The report titled 'Operating Microservices: Size Matters, Even If You Have Kubernetes' shared extensive experience from the company Flant in managing projects with microservice architecture. It will primarily benefit all developers considering […]
According to forecasts by analysts from iKS-Consulting, by 2021, the number of server racks among the largest data center service providers in Russia will reach 49 thousand. Meanwhile, globally, according to Gartner, the number has long exceeded 2.5 million. For modern enterprises, data centers are invaluable assets. The demand for resources for data storage and processing is continually growing, and along with […]
Oracle has released a scheduled update plan for its products (Critical Patch Update), aimed at addressing critical issues and vulnerabilities. The April update resolved a total of 297 vulnerabilities. In the releases of Java SE 12.0.1, 11.0.3, and 8u212, 5 security issues were fixed. All vulnerabilities can be exploited remotely without authentication. One vulnerability specific to the Windows platform has been assigned […]
Ubuntu is an amazing operating system; I hadn't worked with Ubuntu server for a long time, and it didn't make sense to update my Desktop from the stable version. Recently, I encountered the fresh release of Ubuntu server 18.04, and I was astonished to realize how far behind I had fallen and that I couldn't configure the network because the good old system […]
Funcom continues to develop the survival simulator Conan Exiles. The developers have introduced a new seasonal subscription: Conan Exiles – Year 2 Season Pass. This includes four downloadable expansions: 'Treasures of Turan', 'Horsemen of Hyboria', 'Blood and Sand', and 'Secrets of Acheron', with the first one already available. The subscription costs 899 rubles on Steam. 'By purchasing the season pass, you save 25% […]
Good day, dear reader. I will share my nightmare that I experienced while migrating CA from Windows 2008R2 to Windows 2012 R2. There are many articles about this online, and there should have been no issues. Unfortunately — I am not much of a Windows Admin; I am more of a *nix admin, but I was tasked with the migration […]
A comparison of two approaches to structuring the Activity diagram (inspired by 'The Squirrel'). In the first part of the article 'From Process Modeling to the Design of Automated Systems', we modeled processes from a 'fairy tale' subject area — lines about the squirrel from A.S. Pushkin's 'The Tale of Tsar Saltan, His Glorious and Mighty Son Prince Guidon Saltanovich and the Beautiful Swan Princess'. And we began with […]
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is developing its own secure communication platform. The project is called RACE and aims to create a distributed anonymous system for communication. RACE is based on requirements for network resilience and the privacy of all its participants. Thus, DARPA places security at the forefront. Although technical […]
Google has finally implemented the tab scrolling feature, which has long been present in Firefox. It allows for not 'packing' dozens of tabs across the width of the screen, but only showing part of them. This feature can be disabled. Currently, it is only available in the test version of the Chrome Canary program. To enable it, you need to go to the flags section and activate it — chrome://flags/#scrollable-tabstrip. […]
The release of the main branch nginx 1.15.12 is available, which continues to develop new features (the parallel stable branch 1.14 only receives changes related to fixing serious bugs and vulnerabilities). In version 1.15.12, a crash (segmentation fault) of the worker process has been fixed that could occur if variables were used in the ssl_certificate or ssl_certificate_key directives and the OCSP stapling mechanism was enabled, […]
Hello, Habr! Recently I watched a downloaded version of the programming stream 'How to Create Your Web Application on Flask'. I decided to solidify my knowledge with some project. I wasn't sure what to write for a long time, and then the idea struck me: 'Why not create a mini backdoor on Flask?'. The first implementation options and possibilities for the backdoor immediately came to mind. But I decided […]
On April 13, the American daily newspaper The New York Times published an article on its website discussing how the U.S. police turn to Google for assistance in investigating crimes when no other means are available to search for witnesses and suspects. The article tells the story of Jorge Molina — a simple warehouseman accused of murder committed in December […]