Design archives

6 posts from November 2019

Design and Web team summary – 22 November 2019

By Robin Winslow, 26 November 2019

This was a fairly busy two weeks for the Web & design team at Canonical.  Here are some of the highlights of our completed work. Web squad Web is the squad...

The lifecycle of a component

By Karl Waghorn-Moyce, 21 November 2019

Vanilla Framework is a living design system for our products that will grow along with our organisation. Vanilla’s component library is used by many internal...

Avoiding dropped connections in nginx containers with “STOPSIGNAL SIGQUIT”

By Robin Winslow, 19 November 2019

(Also published on my blog at robinwinslow.uk) Update: The default used in the official nginx docker image was changed from SIGTERM to SIGQUIT in November...

We reduced our Docker images by 60% with –no-install-recommends

By Francisco Jiménez Cabrera, 15 November 2019

Here at Canonical, we use Dockerfiles on a daily basis for all our web projects. Something that caught our attention recently was the amount of space that we...

Design and Web team summary – 8 November 2019

By Peter Mahnke, 13 November 2019

This was the final iteration before our roadmap sprint where we plan our 20.04 work.  Here are some of the highlights of our completed work. Web squad Web is...

Design and Web team summary – 25 October 2019

By Peter Mahnke, 1 November 2019

Here are some of the highlights of our completed work. Web squad Web is the squad that develop and maintain most of the brochure websites across the...