Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

The rapid growth in OpenStack installation and orchestration tools that we have seen in recent years has effectively established OpenStack as the world’s leading open source cloud platform. Projects like Sunbeam or Kolla Ansible, for example, are effectively transforming OpenStack into yet another user application.

In today’s hectic app development cycles, speed is key. But as teams scale and spread worldwide, and app complexity increases, traditional testing workflows become bottlenecks that can compromise security, increase operational costs, and delay product delivery. Simply sharing APKs or configuring physical test devices isn’t enough anymore – it’s time to rethink how we test and demo Android apps.

The world is changing every day. From geopolitical shifts to legislation like GDPR which requires localized processing – these all create a complex and uncertain landscape where data storage, processing, and cloud services could potentially come to a sudden halt or suffer heavy disruption overnight. As a result, organizations are increasingly interested in potential routes for shifting cloud services to safer alternatives closer to their country of operation.

If you’re a technology reseller in today’s uncertain software virtualization market, you and your customers are probably actively exploring options for virtualized environments. Of course, finding the perfect alternative is easier said than done: it needs to be scalable, easy to migrate to, cost efficient, and provide the same technical capabilities as preexisting virtualization solutions. That’s a seemingly tall order – but luckily, there are a range of options.

One of the most critical gaps in traditional Large Language Models (LLMs) is that they rely on static knowledge already contained within them. Basically, they might be very good at understanding and responding to prompts, but they often fall short in providing current or highly specific information. This is where RAG comes in; RAG addresses these critical gaps in traditional LLMs by incorporating current and new information that serves as a reliable source of truth for these models.

I’ve written about the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) on our Canonical blog a few times now, and I think now’s the perfect time to talk about the implications of this new regulation and what it means for IoT and device manufacturers on the practical level of how they design and build Products with Digital Elements (PDEs).