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Ubuntu Core as an immutable Linux Desktop base

Canonical began the development of Ubuntu Core in 2014, to create a fully-containerised platform for IoT. In Ubuntu Core, we use the same kernel container technology that Docker and LXC are built on, to put every component of the system into a secure sandbox, with well-defined upgrade and rollback. We did this to enable autonomous connected Internet of Things devices to receive updates which they could apply without human intervention, to address security and business needs at the edge.

Webinar | What's new with Aiven platform

This is your chance to hear directly from Jonah Kowall, the VP of Product Management at Aiven, as he takes you on a journey through our dynamic platform and highlights the latest advancements we've made in the past six months. Not only will you get an exclusive look at all the exciting new features, but you'll also discover the contributions Aiven has made to open source communities like Kafka, OpenSearch, and PostgreSQL.

New Check Type this May: Page Speed Monitoring!

The Uptime.com Page Speed Check has arrived! 🚀 We’ve rebuilt our old Website Speed free test using the most up-to-date analytics, metrics, and auditing tools available to make sure that your websites are performing as expected, every single hour of every day. Keep reading to see exactly how our new Page Speed Check can take your website monitoring and observability to the next level.

Kubernetes Architecture Part 1: Reasons to Choose Kubernetes

This Kubernetes Architecture series covers the main components used in Kubernetes and provides an introduction to Kubernetes architecture. After reading these blogs, you’ll have a much deeper understanding of the main reasons for choosing Kubernetes as well as the main components that are involved when you start running applications on Kubernetes. This blog series covers the following topics.

Best Bee-haviors: Revamping Feature Flags with Nathan Lincoln

Nathan Lincoln, an SRE at Honeycomb, walks through the basics of feature flag best practices (using LaunchDarkly) to help you maintain a stable system. Feature flags are useful for reducing outages and downtime in our systems by allowing traffic segmentation, but they can create chaos without proper maintenance.

Unlocking the Co-Managed IT Services Opportunity

Earlier this month at N-able’s Empower partner event in Prague, I sat down with Head Nerd Stefanie Hammond, to discuss co-managed IT services and N-able’s recently released Co-managed Digital Playbook for MSPs. Whether you’re new to co-managed or looking build on existing offerings, the playbook provides guidance to MSPs on how to build, price, market, and sell co-managed IT services.

Use incident cycle time to optimize your incident response process

Although the causes and solutions for incidents vary widely, most incidents follow a similar timeline from declaration to resolution. We call the period of time it takes to move from one phase or milestone of an incident to the next cycle time.