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Bringing multiple windows to Flutter desktop apps

Over the past 5 years, Canonical has been contributing to Flutter, including building out Linux support for Flutter applications, publishing libraries to help integrate into the Linux desktop and building modern applications for Ubuntu, including our software store. Last year we announced at the Ubuntu Summit that we’ve been working on bringing support for multiple windows to Flutter desktop apps.

#034 - Infrastructure Automation & the Future of Ops with Cory O'Daniel (Massdriver)

This podcast features Cory O'Daniel, CEO of Massdriver, an infrastructure automation platform. O'Daniel discusses his extensive background in software engineering and cloud operations, highlighting his expertise in Erlang and Elixir programming languages and their applications within Kubernetes. He explains Massdriver's role in simplifying infrastructure management for both developers and operations engineers by visually representing infrastructure-as-code.

Intro to proxymock, a free traffic-based service mocking tool within VS Code.

Speedscale's proxymock is a free VS Code plugin that passively listens to transactions, so developers can replay past responses or inbound transactions like a time machine. Past transactions can serve as non-rate-limited service mocks, editable databases, or even regression/load/chaos tests. Building service mocks to serve as service virtualization/mocks can be time consuming and manual. Maintaining complex, shared environments for engineering incurs expensive cloud costs and aren't often accurate.

Failover cluster storage: A comprehensive guide

Availability is the most important driving factor that shapes every decision an organization makes. To ensure high availability, failover clustering is one of the most commonly used solutions in modern IT infrastructure. In this article, we'll learn what failover cluster storage, cluster shared storage, and cluster shared volumes are. Then, we will guide you on how to manage and monitor these crucial resources.

TOP 10 MySQL GUI Tools for Efficient Database Management on Windows [2025]

The ongoing debate between the users of GUI-powered tools and the devotees of command-line utilities is centered around the respective strengths of both approaches. The biggest strength of the former is, naturally, the smooth and easy experience of interaction with databases, which makes GUI tools so attractive to beginners and seasoned professionals alike. In this article, we’ll explore the most popular Windows-compatible GUI tools for MySQL.

Ultimate Guide to Creating a JSON Mock API for Testing

Using a JSON mock allows you to avoid using fake data or simulating interactions, resulting in better final output and stronger data flows. Today, we’re going to dive into the process of creating a mock API using JSON data and tools like JSON-server. This guide will help you understand the basics of this process and get started quickly with your own mock API, allowing you to speed up development and testing without relying on a live backend.

How Mattermost empowers defense teams to modernize critical operations

Modernizing critical defense operations is not just an advantage — it’s a necessity. As defense organizations face increasingly complex threats and operational environments, the need for efficient, secure, and agile collaboration tools has never been more vital. Mattermost provides collaborative workflow solutions that are purpose-built for tactical and operational environments.

New Relic Cost Optimization: 9 Surefire Ways To Cut Your Observability Costs

New Relic has established itself as a top observability platform with full-stack monitoring. Unifying all telemetry data — metrics, events, logs, and traces — into one platform delivers deep performance insights and enables faster troubleshooting without juggling multiple tools. Also, New Relic prioritizes developers with tools like CodeStream, integrating error details and telemetry directly into the IDE.

New Relic Cost Optimization: 9 Surefire Ways To Cut Your Observability Costs

New Relic has established itself as a top observability platform with full-stack monitoring. Unifying all telemetry data — metrics, events, logs, and traces — into one platform delivers deep performance insights and enables faster troubleshooting without juggling multiple tools. Also, New Relic prioritizes developers with tools like CodeStream, integrating error details and telemetry directly into the IDE.