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Ubuntu Desktop on Raspberry Pi

Ubuntu Desktop 20.10 sees much-anticipated support for the Raspberry Pi 🍓 Download an optimised image that transforms a Raspberry Pi 4 (with 4GB or 8GB of RAM) into a complete Ubuntu workstation. This wouldn’t have been possible without the Ubuntu community, the Raspberry Pi Foundations support and their incredible hardware, and you, the users. Finally, show us that you’re using the Ubuntu Desktop on your Raspberry Pi, or what you’re using it for for a chance to win some free Groovy Gorilla 🦍goodies.

The Holy Grail of Cherwell Service Request Automation

Companies are facing major difficulties as a result of the challenges posed by COVID-19, and many professionals cite automation as a key solution to business survival. However, when considering using automation to transform your service management, you need to consider how you leverage Cherwell Service Requests in partnership with automation to achieve the “holy grail” of service request automation.

Introduction To Artifactory On The Jfrog Platform

Everything you need to know about JFrog Artifactory: The how, the what, the where, and when to use Artifactory as part of your application delivery. At the heart of the JFrog DevOps Platform, Artifactory provides universal management for all binary artifacts, container images and Helm charts used throughout your SDLC. Learn how to use Artifactory, tips and tricks for improving your developer productivity and best practices for using Artifactory as part of your CI/CD pipelines to accelerate your releases.

How The JFrog Platform Drives DevSecOps At Scale

With the JFrog Platform at the core of your DevSecOps tool chain, you will over achieve your deployment frequency and change lead time metrics. By integrating JFrog into your existing CI environment current skills (people) and processes are maximized, while aggregating all the commercial and open source software artifacts, dependencies and documentation for re-use across all of your development projects to drive consistency and quality of the build.

Monitoring MongoDB Performance

In this article, you’ll learn the basics of MongoDB. We’ll cover its performance metrics, built-in monitoring commands, utilities and tools, and common monitoring strategies. You will also be introduced to a monitoring tool called MetricFire and provided with some examples of how it can be used in production systems together with setup instructions.

What is Prometheus?

In recent times, Prometheus has become the standard for application monitoring in the tech space. But what exactly is Prometheus? Over the course of this article, we’ll touch on various subtopics to help answer this question, ranging from where it all started, to its architecture and how exactly it does monitoring. We'll address the various possible integrations/tools that can be used alongside Prometheus, and why Prometheus is a great tool for monitoring these platforms and applications.

Going Serverless: Best Practices

Making the move to serverless architecture? By accelerating app development time, serverless isn’t just a boon for business, it’s also a win for engineering teams. Gartner explains: “Serverless architectures enable developers to focus on what they should be doing — writing code and optimizing application design — making way for business agility and digital experimentation.”

Build a Raspberry Pi Desktop with an Ubuntu heart

On the 22nd October 2020, Canonical released an Ubuntu Desktop image optimised for the Raspberry Pi. The Raspberry Pi Foundation’s 4GB and 8GB boards work out of the box with everything users expect from an Ubuntu Desktop. It is our honour to contribute an optimised Ubuntu Desktop image to the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s mission to put the power of computing into people’s hands all over the world.