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25 posts from January 2020
Design and Web team summary – 17 January 2020
By Robin Winslow, 17 January 2020
The second iteration of this year is the last one before our mid-cycle sprint next week. Here’s a short summary of the work the squads in the Web & Design...
5 key steps to take your IoT device to market
By cmoullec, 17 January 2020
IoT businesses are notoriously difficult to get off the ground. No matter how good your product is or how good your team is, some of the biggest problems you...
New Ubuntu Theme in Development for 20.04
By Martin Wimpress, 14 January 2020
Yaru is the user interface theme that has been used in Ubuntu since 18.10. The theme is what determines the colours, borders, shadows, size, and shape of...
Kubernetes: a secure, flexible and automated edge for IoT developers
By cmoullec, 14 January 2020
Cloud native software such as containers and Kubernetes and IoT/edge are playing a prominent role in the digital transformation of enterprise organisations....
Why you should upgrade Windows 7 to Ubuntu
By Rhys Davies, 14 January 2020
Windows 7 has reached the end of its life. It will no longer receive security updates and Microsoft’s technical support will stop. Running an out-of-date OS...
How to launch IoT devices – Part 1: Why it takes so long
By nilayshrugged, 14 January 2020
(This blog post is part of a 5 part series, titled “How to launch IoT devices”. It will cover the key choices and concerns when turning bright IoT ideas into...
The State of Robotics – Robotics Over the Holidays
By Rhys Davies, 10 January 2020
Canonical closes for the holidays, but robots just get more festive. Roboticists seem to feel the festive spirit, and it turns their projects into festive...
Infrastructure-as-Code mistakes and how to avoid them
By Tim McNamara, 10 January 2020
Two industry trends point to a gap in DevOps tooling chosen by many. Operations teams need more than an Infrastructure-as-Code approach, but a complete...
MAAS readying enhanced network testing and link checking
By Bill Wear, 9 January 2020
Enhanced MAAS Network Testing and Link Checking With the upcoming release of MAAS 2.7, Metal-as-a-Service has gained new network testing and link-checking...
Data Ops at petabyte scale
By Tim McNamara, 8 January 2020
Should you deploy Apache Spark to Kubernetes? Learn how model-driven operations have enabled one data engineering team to evaluate several options and come to...
Keep enterprise ROS robots up-to-date with snaps
By Rhys Davies, 7 January 2020
When a robot is not up-to-date, it becomes about as useful as an expensive paperweight, or companies have to burn money to get them back online. Yet when...
Discover cool apps with snap find
By Igor Ljubuncic, 3 January 2020
Software discovery and installation broadly comes in two flavors – via graphical user interface or on the command line. If you’re using a Linux distribution...