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Canonical Data Platform 2021 winter roundup
By robgibbon, 6 December 2021
Canonical Data Platform: that was 2021 It’s that time of the year again: many folks are panic buying cans of windscreen de-icer spray and thermal underwear,...
Top 10 apps to boost your productivity
By Holly Hall, 19 November 2021
Winter is rolling in (for those in the Northern Hemisphere at least). Long summer evenings are on hold for now. In these colder months, it can be difficult to...
In defence of pet servers
By robgibbon, 26 October 2021
We all know the drill by now: modern compute infrastructure needs to be deterministic, disposable, commoditised and repeatable. We’re all farmers now, and our...
How to develop Linux applications for FIPS on Ubuntu
By Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos, 6 September 2021
This is the second article in our series regarding FIPS 140 and Ubuntu. The first part of this series, this article, covers running FIPS 140 applications on...
How to troubleshoot application issues and crashes with snapd gdbserver
By Igor Ljubuncic, 13 May 2021
Sometimes, applications may not run well, or they could even crash. When such issues occur, it is useful to have a consistent, reproducible method of...
The snap developer’s guide on how to migrate to new bases
By Igor Ljubuncic, 7 May 2021
A couple of weeks ago, we published an article about Ubuntu 16.04 entering Extended Security Maintenance (ESM), and the implications of this change for snap...
What is Elasticsearch and how are enterprises using it?
By Kris Sharma, 4 February 2021
What does Netflix, eBay and Walmart have in common? They all use Elasticsearch. What is Elasticsearch? Elasticsearch is a real-time open-source distributed...
Productivity corner: editors, editors, editors
By Igor Ljubuncic, 14 January 2021
Text editors are a curious product. On one hand, they are simple, no-nonsense digital pads for taking notes, without any embellishments or visual styling. On...
Less than 6 months to Ubuntu 16.04 ESM: 6 things to prepare
By Lech Sandecki, 11 November 2020
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Xenial Xerus will enter the extended security maintenance (ESM) period in April 2021. This article explains the ESM period and provides a...
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