Category: Blog

Installation and operation of 'Rudder'

Foreword Our 'friendship' began two years ago. I started a new job where the previous admin casually left me this software as an inheritance. I couldn't find anything online apart from the official documentation. Even now, if you Google 'rudder', in 99% of the cases, you will get results about ship steering wheels and drones. I managed to find an approach to it. Since the Community […]

Introduction to Debezium — CDC for Apache Kafka

In my work, I often encounter new technical solutions/software products for which there is very little information available in Russian online. This article aims to fill one such gap with an example from my recent practice when it was necessary to set up CDC event sending from two popular DBMS (PostgreSQL and MongoDB) to a Kafka cluster using Debezium. I hope this overview article, which has appeared due to […]

Provider, install my antivirus on VDI

Among our clients, there are companies that use Kaspersky solutions as their corporate standard and manage antivirus protection independently. It might seem that the virtual desktop service, where the provider monitors the antivirus, wouldn't fit them at all. Today, I'll show how clients can manage protection themselves without compromising the security of virtual desktops. In the last post, we already shared in […]

How we protect client virtual desktops from viruses, spyware, and attacks

This year, many companies rushed to transition to remote work. We helped some clients set up over a hundred remote workstations in one week. It was important to do this quickly but also safely. VDI technology came to the rescue: it allows for easy distribution of security policies across all workstations and helps protect against data leaks. In this article […]

We are checking the capabilities of the Intel Xeon Gold 6254 for working with 1C in the cloud based on the Gilev test.

Earlier this spring, we upgraded the infrastructure of the cloud mClouds.ru to the latest Xeon Gold 6254. It's too late for a detailed overview of the processor — over a year has passed since its release, and its specifications are well-known. However, one noteworthy feature is that the processor has a base frequency of 3.1 GHz and 18 cores, which can boost with turbo […]

Packet Tracer. Laboratory Work: Configuring Floating Static Routes

Network Topology Tasks Create a primary static default route Deploy a floating static route Verify failover to the floating static route when the primary route fails Overview To start, let's clarify what a static route, and even a floating route, is. Unlike dynamic routing, static routing requires building the route manually to a specific network. A floating […]

NEAR has launched! It's now easier to build an open and free internet

Hello everyone! Yesterday marked the launch of NEAR, a project my colleagues and I have been working on for the past two years. NEAR is a blockchain protocol and platform for decentralized applications, focusing on performance and ease of use. Today, I want to discuss the problems blockchain protocols solve in today's world, the issues they could address but haven't yet, and where […]

Is it necessary to install heatsinks on NVMe drives?

Over the past few years, the price of 2.5-inch solid-state drives has dropped to near that of hard drives. Now, NVMe drives, which operate on the PCI Express bus, are replacing SATA solutions. Between 2019 and 2020, we also observed a decline in the prices of these devices, making them only slightly more expensive than their SATA counterparts. Their main advantage is that such […]

FortiMail — configuration for quick deployment

Greetings! Today we will explain how to set up the FortiMail email gateway – a solution by Fortinet for email protection. In this article, we will examine the layout we will be working with, configure FortiMail to receive and verify emails, and also test its functionality. Based on our experience, we can confidently say that the process is very straightforward, and […]

The largest free electronic library is venturing into interplanetary space

Library Genesis is a true gem of the Internet. This online library, providing free access to over 2.7 million books, has taken a long-awaited step this week. One of the library's web mirrors now allows downloading files via IPFS—a distributed file system. So, the Library Genesis book collection is now uploaded to IPFS, pinned, and connected to search. This means that now […]

11 Tools That Make Kubernetes Better

Not all server platforms, even the most powerful and scalable ones, meet every need as is. While Kubernetes works great on its own, it may lack the necessary components for completeness. You will always find a use case that ignores your needs or where Kubernetes won't function with the default installation—such as database support […]

Browser Fingerprinting: What It Is, How It Works, Does It Violate The Law, and How To Protect Yourself. Part 2

From Selectel: This is the second part of the translation of an article about browser fingerprints (you can read the first part here). Today, we will discuss the legality of collecting browser fingerprints of different users by third-party services and websites and how to protect oneself from data collection. So, what about the legality of collecting browser fingerprints? We examined this topic in detail but could not find specific laws (the discussion […]

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