Understand why tracking cumulative resource consumption is crucial for accurate process monitoring.

When it comes to monitoring system performance on Linux, the load average is one of the most referenced metrics. Displayed prominently in tools like top, uptime, and htop, it’s often used as a quick gauge of system load and capacity. But how reliable is it? For complex, multi-threaded applications, load average can paint a misleading picture of actual system performance.

Kubeflow is an open source MLOps platform that is designed to enable organizations to scale their ML initiatives and automate their workloads. It is a cloud-native solution that helps developers run the entire machine learning lifecycle within a single solution on Kubernetes. It can be used to develop, optimize and deploy models. This blog will walk you through the benefits of using an official distribution of the Kubeflow project.

From cloud to edge, hardware-agnostic AI/ML In January Canonical will reconfirm its presence at CES 2025; here we will be showing a cutting-edge AI/ML demo that showcases how AI models can be trained, deployed, and updated seamlessly across various hardware platforms.

October 2024 marks the 20th anniversary of Ubuntu. The cybersecurity landscape has significantly shifted since 2004. If you have been following the Ubuntu Security Team’s special three-part series podcast that we put out to mark Cybersecurity Awareness Month, you will have listened to us talk about significant moments that have shaped the industry, as well as what our recommendations to stay safe are.

For years, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) has helped power the most complex IT environments—and the technology is still relevant today. After all, VDI allows employees to access their work applications and data across any device, anywhere. And the growth of 5G networked edge computing means that VDI workloads can soon be optimised for even greater flexibility, security and cost savings. But what’s the right way to deploy VDI in the cloud era?

Azure linux is a Linux distribution built for Microsoft’s cloud infrastructure. It can be used as a base OS when creating node pools in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters. Using Azure linux as a base OS for AKS node pools has several benefits, such as lower resources footprint, faster boot times, and better security.

The launch of Ubuntu in 2004 was a step-change for everyday users and developers everywhere. Nicknamed “Ubuntu Linux” in its early days, to differentiate it from its various cousins in the Linux world, it has since lost the need for its surname and grown to become a powerful force. Besides being used by millions of home users, Ubuntu is widely used in the development and business world. As developers have become a driving force of innovation, so has Ubuntu.