Blog posts written by Sarah Dickinson

Sarah Dickinson
2 December 2020

Forecasting the future of cloud with OpenStack experts

Ubuntu Article

OpenStack, the cloud computing platform, has proved to be a beacon of success for open source. It rounds off 10 years in existence this year, a period which has seen it reach nearly 200 countries, and we want to look ahead to what the future holds for the technology. We’ve spoken to a number of ...

Sarah Dickinson
13 November 2020

10 years and 10 million cores: charting OpenStack’s greatest achievements

Ubuntu Article

Technology anniversaries have become more commonplace in recent years. The iPhone at 10 years old, indeed Canonical itself turned 15 last year. Here though, we want to look at OpenStack reaching double figures this year. Starting off as a joint project between NASA and Rackspace in 2010, over 500 companies have now joined the OpenStack ...

Sarah Dickinson
7 April 2020

The Wellcome Sanger Institute: sharing genomic research worldwide securely with supported Ceph

Ubuntu Article

A world-leading genomic research centre, the Wellcome Sanger Institute uses advanced DNA sequencing technology for large-scale studies that surpass the capabilities of many other organisations. Among other works, the Institute is currently heading the UK-wide Darwin Tree of Life Project to map the genetic code of 60,000 complex species. I ...

Sarah Dickinson
10 December 2019

ObjectBox, database for IoT devices, adopts snaps for simplicity and ease of installation

Edgex Article

When designers put their heart and soul into making super-fast, easy-to-use software to help take Internet of Things (IoT) apps to the next level, installation of that software needs to meet the same high standards. ObjectBox is a database and synchronisation solution for rapid, efficient edge computing for mobile and IoT devices. Rather ...

Sarah Dickinson
28 October 2019

Standardising software to quickly deliver a smart city platform for millions

Internet of Things Article

New York has the highest population density of any city in the United States with over 27,000 people per square mile. The average New Yorker has a commute of 40 minutes, 14 more than the national average. There are over 200 languages spoken in the city. These statistics alone illustrate the challenge of communicating to ...

Sarah Dickinson
24 October 2019

FinTechs discuss security, regulation and innovation at New York City roundtable

Cloud and server Article

Earlier this month, Canonical, IBM and FinTech specialists Medici held a joint roundtable in New York for executives within the financial services sector to hear and discuss their pain points, the most prominent emerging technologies and what the future holds. Entitled ‘Graduating from FinTech to FinServ’, the roundtable was hosted by Ros ...

Sarah Dickinson
27 August 2019

Snaps help Xibo rekindle its relationship with Linux

Internet of Things Article

Sometimes, relationships just don’t work out. At first, it seemed that Xibo and Linux were made for each other. Xibo had a popular open source digital signage and player system, while Linux brought a community of enthusiastic users. Dan Garner of Xibo remembers why they broke up in 2015: “Releasing our player on Linux was ...

Sarah Dickinson
21 August 2019

Jupyter looks to distro-agnostic packaging for the democratisation of installation

Desktop Article

When users of your application range from high school students to expert data scientists, it’s often wise to avoid any assumptions about their system configurations. The Jupyter Notebook is popular with a diverse user base, enabling the creation and sharing of documents containing live code, visualisations, and narrative text. The app use ...

Sarah Dickinson
12 August 2019

Julia and Jeff discover the ease of snaps at the Snapcraft Summit

Desktop Desktop

Julia is an open source, high-level, general-purpose, dynamic programming language designed for numerical analysis and computational science, launched in 2012. It solves the “two language” problem: developers can use Julia for both computational and interactive work, instead of needing to work with two different languages which can often ...

Sarah Dickinson
29 July 2019

Manjaro, snaps and the spirit of collaboration

Desktop Desktop

Linux distributions are all about freedom of choice for the end-user. However, there is a natural element of competition too. So, why did Philip Müller, one of the founders of the Manjaro distribution, come to the 2019 Snapcraft Summit in Montreal? There are several good reasons, according to Philip. First, he says, “Manjaro and Ubuntu ...

Sarah Dickinson
23 July 2019

Community Snapcrafter on MicroK8s, summits and the evolving nature of snaps

Desktop Article

In January 2018, Dani Llewellyn joined her first Snapcraft Summit in Seattle in her role as a community Snapcrafter. At that event, we discussed her views on everything snap related from most requested snaps, new feature requests and popular discussion topics. Since then, snaps has grown across every metric and seen numerous new high prof ...

Sarah Dickinson
18 July 2019

CMake leverages the Snapcraft Summit with Travis CI to build snaps

Desktop Article

CMake is an open-source, cross-platform family of tools designed to build, test and package software. It is used to control the software compilation process and generate native makefiles and workspaces that can be used in any compiler environment. While some users of CMake want to stay up to date with the latest release, others want ...

Sarah Dickinson

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