While searching for your next GNU/Linux enabled computer, you may have found that some vendors such as Dell, HP and Lenovo sell a selection of desktops and laptops with Ubuntu pre-installed. In fact, Ubuntu is certified on an ever-growing list of hardware. But what does it mean exactly for such a device to be “Ubuntu certified”, and how does this happen? Let’s find out.

Logs provide a wealth of information that is invaluable for use cases like root cause analysis and audits. However, you typically don’t need to view the granular details of every log, particularly in dynamic environments that generate large volumes of them. Instead, it’s generally more useful to perform analytics on your logs in aggregate.

Here at Blameless, every aspect of our product has SLOs (Service Level Objects) and error budgets in order to help us understand and improve customer experience. Sometimes, these error budgets are at risk, triggering an incident. While incidents are often painful, we treat them as unplanned investments, striving to learn as much as we can from them. We empower all of our engineers to handle an on-call rotation, no matter how difficult the issue.

Ocean by Spot enables a serverless container infrastructure experience. Today, we are excited to deliver a configurable health check period for auto scaling nodes in order to increase the flexibility of Ocean to meet all of our customer’s needs.

Cloud native and open source technologies have modernized how we develop software, and although they have led to unprecedented developer productivity and flexibility, they were not built with enterprise needs in mind. A primary challenge is bridging the gap between cloud native and enterprise reality. Enterprises need a centralized Kubernetes management control plane with logging and monitoring that supports security and governance requirements extended through essential Kubernetes frameworks.

We are proud to announce the general availability of DC/OS 2.1, which includes new enterprise-grade capabilities across the following key areas. These new capabilities further enhance the standing of DC/OS as the most robust, scalable cloud native platform for enterprises.

We’re delighted to announce that Cloudsmith now supports Conan! As most of your know, Cloudsmith is universal. It is our aim to support all the languages and package formats our customers and prospective customers use. We think any organization benefits from being able to store, secure, manage and distribute ALL of their software assets in a single consistent manner.

Every evolution in technology starts with the people behind it. So understanding the context, roles, and objectives that gave rise to DevOps — and now DevSecOps — isn’t just an exploration of timing and technology; it’s central to how we define organizational success. In this post, I’ll recap a conversation I had with Gareth Rushgrove, Director of Product Management at Snyk, a cybersecurity platform that helps developers identify vulnerabilities in their applications.