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Snap interview with Krita
by Michael Hall on 4 October 2016
This is the second in a series of interviews with Snap adopters, you can read the first interview here. If you have an interesting snap story to tell,...
Cloud and server
Snap interview with Rocket.Chat
by Michael Hall on 27 September 2016
Snap packaging has been gaining a lot of momentum recently, from desktop apps to cloud services, and everything in between. To learn more about the people and...
Cloud and server
Monitoring “big software” stacks with the Elastic Stack
by Charles Butler on 22 September 2016
Big Software is a new class of application. It’s composed of so many moving pieces that humans, by themselves, cannot...
Cloud and server
Apache Bigtop and Juju: a charming approach to big data
by Jorge O. Castro on 7 June 2016
Juju users have been enjoying our collection of Big Data charms for over two years. During this time, we’ve learned a lot about what our users want from this...
Cloud and server
The new simplicity to consume DPDK
by Christian Ehrhardt on 5 May 2016
DPDK is a fast moving project comprised of a set of libraries and drivers for fast packet processing. It utilizes polling threads, huge pages, numa locality...
Cloud and server
Flexwebhosting spins up services in record time with Canonical
by Alexia Emmanoulopoulou on 14 March 2016
Flexwebhosting is one of the largest web hosting providers in the Netherlands with over 60,000 customers and houses over 6,500 web servers in different data...
Cloud and server
MAAS 1.9: Taking bare-metal beyond “minimal provisioning”
by Christian Reis on 20 January 2016
Complex node configuration now fully supported, including NIC bonding, tagged VLANs, bcache, LVM, software RAID devices and more One of the (only somewhat...
Cloud and server
Diving into Juju
by Adam Israel on 24 November 2015
In my last post, I introduced you to Juju and talked about how it could help you. Now I’d like to walk you through some real world examples of Juju in action....
Ubuntu
Dell’s Ubuntu based Developer laptop just got better
by Canonical on 18 February 2013
Dell announced today an updated XPS 13, preloaded with Ubuntu, which has a full high-definition 1080p display. It will be available for sale in the USA and...
Ubuntu
Ubuntu User Surveys 2012 – Part 4 and Final
by Canonical on 29 March 2012
I wanted to know what the reasons were for people choosing Ubuntu. After all there are other better-known choices out there. For the respondents across all...
Ubuntu
Ubuntu User Surveys 2012 – Part 3
by Canonical on 27 March 2012
So as promised let’s take a look a the next set of results from the Ubuntu Survey. I am going to bundle together the broader world of Ubuntu looking at other...
Ubuntu
Ubuntu User Surveys 2012 – Part 2
by Canonical on 22 March 2012
Yesterday we looked at the demographics of the respondents to the survey and some observations about the validity of the date. I recommend you read that post...