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Web Engineering: Celebrating Our Third Annual Hack Week
By Anthony Dillon, 6 November 2025
The Web Engineering team is thrilled to announce the successful conclusion of our third annual Hack Week! Over the past three years, this initiative has...
Web Engineering: Hack Week 2024
By Anthony Dillon, 8 January 2025
At Canonical, the work of our teams is strongly embedded in the open source principles and philosophy. We believe open source software will become the most...
Two approaches to IoT prototyping
By Nathan Hart, 25 October 2022
Taking a new device from an idea to production readiness can be a challenge. Hacks or workarounds can help you deliver a proof of concept, but they can...
Data centre automation for HPC
By Eduardo Aguilar Pelaez, 29 June 2020
Friction points in HPC DevOps Many High Performance Computing (HPC) setups are still handcrafted configurations where tuning changes can take days or weeks....
You are invited to the virtual Ubuntu Masters event
By Canonical, 16 April 2020
The Ubuntu Masters Conference is a platform for IT practitioners to share how they are solving industry-wide challenges with the global engineering community....
Ubuntu Security Update on VENOM (CVE-2015-3456) [UPDATED]
By Robbie, 13 May 2015
A buffer overflow in the virtual floppy disk controller of QEMU has been discovered. An attacker could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash or execute...
An insight into supporting OpenStack
By Mark Baker, 27 March 2014
It is pretty well known that most of the OpenStack clouds running in production today are based on Ubuntu. Companies like Comcast, NTT, Deutsche Telekom,...
ARM Server Explained
By Victor Tuson Palau, 21 August 2012
You have probably started to notice a continuous buzz around ARM Servers for the last few months: Calxeda (an System on a Chip maker) presented their...
Ubuntu ARM Server AMI on Amazon EC2
By Victor Tuson Palau, 25 May 2012
Have you been wondering if your Web application will work with the new generation of Hyperdense ARM Servers? Now you can easily find out by using Ubuntu and...
A UDS restrospective
By Jane Silber, 18 May 2012
The Ubuntu Developer Summit last week was an incredible event. The energy, excitement and passion around Ubuntu was palpable in the sessions, hallways and...
Improving Hardware Support in Ubuntu
By Victor Tuson Palau, 7 March 2012
Anthony Wong, Project Technical Lead at Canonical, presented our process for improving hardware support in Ubuntu at our 2011 Hardware Summit. He did such a...