A selection of materials about clouds, data centers and the development of services

About cloud providers

Cloud computing is a fairly mature technology, but it is still surrounded by a halo of myths about management features, security, and business benefits. In this material, we discuss several of the most common misconceptions, using our own experience in developing a virtual infrastructure provider 1cloud.ru.

The second part of the myths, in which we continue to wade through a veil of delusions, using our own experience of developing a virtual infrastructure provider 1cloud.ru.

On the one hand, choosing a direction for further development means that the project is doing well - it has room to grow. On the other hand, the number of these very directions may be too large. In this article, we will talk about how to improve 1cloud, we chose, and how it can be useful for other projects.

This is a story about how the 1cloud service was created - how it was originally conceived and what it eventually became.

A list of questions to which reasoned answers should be obtained before signing an agreement with an IaaS provider. This list is designed to help you in separating the “chaff” seeds.

Network technologies

This paper discusses the basic aspects of the functioning of the DNS and the security of DNS servers.

This post is devoted to a brief comparative analysis of the most common to date software solutions for creating virtual private networks.

The second part of the review of software implementations VPN. This time we are talking about AnyConnect VPN, OpenConnect VPN, SoftEther VPN, Tinc.

Overview of Facebook's network infrastructure: physical device, applied technologies and operating principles.

What advantages can the duet of software-defined network and cloud technologies provide?

Workflows

Let us dwell on the issues of corporate culture in IT and analyze the characteristic features of how things are going with all this with the largest companies in the Internet industry.

As technology increasingly penetrates our daily lives, more and more “traditional” companies are beginning to look like technical ones. In this article we decided to raise the question of the need for (at least) basic knowledge and programming skills of those who run a modern company.

We discuss working moments in which developers themselves are sometimes mistaken.

We offer a list of phrases that - even when they sound polite and correct - should not be used in a conversation with developers and testers, if you are their colleague, customer, “owner” or project manager.

We are discussing how best to store your code: in one repository or in several.

miscellanea

What happens if you start to use the brain more than 10%? Is it worth "pumping" your mental body?

We are talking about database optimization. Several approaches that will reduce the load on the server.

This amazing computer marked a whole era. The whole history of computer science and computing was divided with its creation on before and after. Let's see at its heyday and what became of this amazing machine after it has served its own.

In this article, we are talking about data storage, in particular, about promising development - DNA-based repositories.

There is an opinion that a tandem of powerful modern technologies and “powerful” volumes of information available in the digital age promises to be a formidable tool for solving almost any problem. Is it so? Let's figure it out.