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Blog posts with topic "canonical-announcements"

Jorge O. Castro
11 August 2015

How Netflix tunes Ubuntu on EC2

Cloud and server Tutorials

One of the nice things about having Netflix running Ubuntu is that the community can take advantage of the lessons they learn about running services at scale. I had the pleasure of attending Brendan Gregg’s Linux Profiling at Netflix talk at SCALE13x and afterwards he gave me a list of things that Netflix did to Ubuntu ...

Canonical
10 August 2015

Ubuntu One file syncing code Open Sourced

Desktop Article

Today, we’re happy to be open sourcing the biggest piece of our Ubuntu One file syncing service. The code we’re releasing is the server side of what desktop clients connected to when syncing local or remote changes. This is code where most of the innovation and hard work went throughout the years, where we faced ...

Dustin Kirkland
10 August 2015

Golden Ratio calculated to 2 trillion digits, on Ubuntu, in the Cloud

Cloud and server Article

The Golden Ratio is one of the oldest and most visible irrational numbers known to humanity.  Pi is perhaps more famous, but the Golden Ratio is found in more of our art, architecture, and culture throughout human history.I think of the Golden Rat ...

Canonical
10 August 2015

BQ goes global with Ubuntu

Phone and tablet Article

The successful European launches of the BQ Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Edition and it’s slightly larger brother, the BQ Aquaris E5 HD Ubuntu Edition, have seen the appetite for Ubuntu phones grow the world over. ...

Amrisha Prashar
7 August 2015

Celebrate the new Film Scope with DJ Yoda

Phone and tablet Article

With the launch of the new Film Scope on the Ubuntu phone, users can now watch movie trailers, read reviews and discover film choices. We’ve managed to get Sci-Fi fan and famous DJ Yoda on-board to be part of a new competition we’re launching. We’re inviting the public to create their own Sci-Fi film GIFS ...

Robin Winslow
5 August 2015

Vanilla: Creating a modular Sass library

Ubuntu Notes

We recently introduced Vanilla framework, a light-weight styling framework which is intended to replace the old Guidelines framework as the basis for our Ubuntu and Canonical branded sites and others. One of the reasons we created Vanilla was because we ran into significant problems trying to use Guidelines across multiple different sites ...

Maarten Ectors
5 August 2015

The first app-enabled spider

Internet of Things Article

If you are into robot spiders then the erle-spider is something to look forward to. It will be the first app-enabled Snappy Ubuntu Core and ROS powered robot spider. Curious to see what people will do with it   ...

Randall Ross
4 August 2015

Juju: Re-Framing the Discussion

Cloud and server Article

A while back, just before Dockercon 2015, the friendly folks behind Ubuntu, Juju, LXD, and a whole bunch of other goodness hosted a special event that was all about service modelling, orchestration, and making all the container-y Docker-y stuff work we ...

Ryan Finnie
4 August 2015

Introducing Turku: Cloud-Friendly Backups for Your Infrastructure

Cloud and server Article

It’s a topic many people don’t like to think about: backups. In addition to making sure your cloud environments are correctly deployed, highly available, secured and monitored, you need to make sure they are backed up for disaster recovery purposes. (And no, replication is not the same as backups.) Canonical’s IS team is responsible for ...

James Donner
3 August 2015

NFV with Juniper OpenContrail and Ubuntu OpenStack: ODS Vancouver

Cloud and server Videos

 Arguably, the pressure on carriers to find new and innovative ways to develop and deliver new, sticky services has never been greater. Wannabe service providers such as Google, Amazon and Netflix, are finding ever more nimble ways to design and launch innovative new services. It’s their ability to deploy thousands of new machines with ...

Canonical
3 August 2015

Juju – It’s About Building Relationships!

Cloud and server Article

I admit it, I was excited about Juju before I even fully understood it. But isn’t that part of the magic of anything called Juju? I’m new to Canonical, I’m less than a month into my tenure here. But I’m already super excited to have joined. What has me so excited? The company‘s vision, and ...

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