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Cloud Provider Checklist: Important Factors

21 March 2017 5 min read

The market today is flooded with offers from different cloud service providers. It’s not just a question of just choosing one service over another; clients firstly consider their business requirements and the relevant tasks.

In this post, we’ve compiled a list of the most important features individuals should look for when choosing their cloud service provider. If the best solution for your business is cloud-based, then please feel free to refer to this checklist before making your final decision.

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Containerization Mechanisms: Cgroups

16 March 2017 14 min read

Today we’ll be continuing our post series on containerization mechanisms. In our last article on containerization, we talked about isolating processes using the namespaces mechanism. For containerization though, isolating resources isn’t enough. If we launch an application in an isolated environment, we should be sure it has been allocated enough resources and not use an inordinate amount, interrupting the rest of the system. For this task, the Linux kernel has a special mechanism, cgroups (short for control groups), which we will talk about today.

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Data Centers: Standards and Certification

14 March 2017 10 min read

Any individual or company looking to utilize a data center’s services needs a guaranteed level of quality. There has to be some assurance that their equipment will not fail and that their data will always be available (or that in the worst case scenario, their project will quickly be restored).

When it comes to data centers, the most commonly recognized guarantee is certification. Certification asserts that the center complies with a predetermined list of standards. Although issues of standardization have gained particular interest over the past few years, the number of relevant publications on the topic remains low.

In this article, we’ll be looking at the primary regulatory documents for data center certification.

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Containerization Mechanisms: Namespaces

9 March 2017 13 min read

Linux container solutions have gained quite a bit of popularity over the last few years. A lot of people have written or spoken about how containers can be used and what for, but little attention has been paid to the mechanisms behind containerization.

All containerization tools, like Docker, LXC, or systemd-nspawn, are built on two Linux kernel subsystems: namespaces and cgroups. In this article, we’ll be taking an in-depth look at namespaces.

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YAWNDB – Time Series Databases

20 February 2017 8 min read

For many of our services, we have to provide clients with various statistics. Clients who rent dedicated servers need information on the traffic they’ve used, VPC users need stats on hardware and network resources, and Cloud Storage users need information on file transfers.

The simplest and most direct way to present statistics is in charts. There are many programs specifically designed for analyzing statistical data with subsequent visuals. We’ve looked for an appropriate tool with performance as our main criterion. As a result… well, let’s go through this step by step. We’ll start some theory.

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Guest Post: Managing the Virtual Private Cloud with Terraform

14 February 2017 14 min read

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Today we’re publishing a guest post written by our client Alexey Vakhov. Alexey is the CTO of Uchi.ru, a company that develops an educational platform under the same name and also hosts interactive competitions (olympiads) for schoolchildren. The entire Uchi.ru infrastructure is built on our Virtual Private Cloud.
Alexey Vakhov gives a detailed account of how he and his colleagues use the utility Terraform for automating the setup and support of a virtual infrastructure. We hope his experience will be interesting for our other VPC users.

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