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Anthony Dillon
4 February 2019

Design and Web team summary – 04 February 2019

Cloud and server Design

Welcome to the latest work and updates from the design and web team. Web squad Three new homepage takeovers This iteration we designed three, built two and are showing one new homepage takeover. Branded snap appstores is live Broadsign and arrow webinar is build Financial services webinar is designed Built a new version of the ...


Igor Ljubuncic
31 January 2019

Where eagles snap – A closer look

Desktop Desktop

A couple of weeks ago, we talked about snap security, taking a journey through the eyes of a developer and handing over to a user who wants to install applications from the Snap Store. We discussed concepts like application confinement, interfaces, store review, and automatic updates. Today, we will look under the hood, and examine ...


Guest
28 January 2019

Taking Octavia for a ride with Kubernetes on OpenStack

Cloud and server Article

Want to enable your developers to deploy highly available web applications, web services or microservices? Do you also need to cater for existing and legacy workloads? Sounds like your requirements are in the sweet spot between what OpenStack and Kubernetes has to offer. OpenStack is as you may already know a mature, stable and flexible ...


Robin Winslow
26 January 2019

Our new team practices site, and the democratic repository behind it

Desktop Design

A month ago, we published our web and design team practices website, from the repository that we’ve been building up for nearly two years now. I’ll try to explain why I am so proud of it. Why practices? A strong team needs agreed standards and principles, to help anchor discussions and illuminate common goals. When ...


Alan Pope
24 January 2019

Zero to Snap – Rev up your packaging

Desktop Article

Software developers often have enough to worry about. Their focus is creating the best application they can, often without having to consider packaging. We recently discovered Akira, which illustrates this well. The small team of developers are hard at work on the application, so software packaging isn’t a high priority at the moment. Aki ...


Canonical
22 January 2019

Ubuntu Core 18 released for secure, reliable IoT devices

Internet of Things Canonical News

Canonical today published Ubuntu Core 18, bringing the popular Ubuntu 18.04 LTS to high-security embedded devices. “Dell has been working closely with Canonical over the past three years to certify Ubuntu Core on all our Edge Gateway platforms. Ubuntu Core enables our customers to build highly secure, stable IoT solutions that deliver the ...


Canonical
21 January 2019

What will be the biggest development trends in 2019?

Cloud and server Article

What’s the most popular programming language today among software developers? It’s still JavaScript, with over 10M users globally. Python has reached 7M active developers and is climbing up the ranks. How do we know that? Thanks to the Developer Economics survey. Every year it reaches over 40,000 developers in 167+ countries to discover w ...


Igor Ljubuncic
17 January 2019

Where eagles snap – snap security overview

Desktop Desktop

Quite often, security and functionality are two opposing forces. Vendors are trapped in a zero-sum game between providing their users as much freedom in the software they use and limiting said freedom to create tightly controlled and secure products. But this does not have be the case. For the last several years, Linux users have ...


Canonical
16 January 2019

MAAS 2.5 : Growing the ecosystem and support for KVM micro-clouds

Cloud and server Article

Our latest release makes for a very exciting point in the MAAS evolution. As datacenter (DC) infrastructure grows at unparalleled scale fueled by new applications and services such as connected autonomous cars, augmented/virtual reality (AR/VR) and IoT, the need for automated bare metal provisioning has never been more important. Multi-ac ...


Martin Wimpress
14 January 2019

Fresh Snaps from December 2018

Desktop Article

Another month passes and we’ve got a collection of applications which crossed our “desk” (Twitter feed) during December 2018. Take a look down the list, and discover something new today. 1. travis Travis CI Developers! Get the snap of the ubiquitous Travis CI command line client for Linux that works with any Travis CI setup ...


Igor Ljubuncic
10 January 2019

Snap up your development – Tools for making the snap trek easier

Desktop Desktop

Software development is what happens in between users and bug reports. Niccolo Machiavelli In an ideal world, developers would be able to create new applications without any errors, and live happily ever after. Unfortunately, errors, warnings and bugs are an inseparable part of the process. Sometimes, these problems are caused or magnifie ...