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Pulse-check your engineering team performance

If you're being asked to do more with less on your software engineering team, you need to be able to see at a glance how your team is doing. Are you deploying at a consistent rate? What's your lead time for changes? Where are your bottlenecks? Our CTO, Don Brown, shows how we take a pulse of our performance at Sleuth using DORA metrics.

Securing Azure Blob Storage

Azure Blob Storage is a versatile, scalable, and cost-effective cloud storage service provided by Microsoft. It is designed to store a wide range of data types, including unstructured data such as images, videos, audio files, and documents. As businesses increasingly rely on cloud storage for critical data, ensuring the security of Azure Blob Storage becomes a top priority.

Building Bitbucket Cloud for enhanced security, compliance, and scale

With support for Bitbucket Server ending in February 2024, we're seeing more and more of our enterprise customers moving their code to the cloud. To enable a smooth migration to cloud for our Bitbucket Server and Data Center customers and to enable our existing cloud customers to scale, we are continuing to build features around security, compliance, and scale in Bitbucket Cloud.

Ubuntu compliance monitoring with Microsoft Intune

In recent years, data science, AI and software development have become a key focus area for organisations operating in every sector of the economy. This creates a pressing need to adopt Linux desktops in the enterprise, as research clearly shows a growing number of data scientists and developers prefer operating systems like Ubuntu.

Tutorial | Microsoft Intune for Ubuntu

Microsoft has recently released Intune for Linux with Ubuntu as the first target platform. As a mobile device management (MDM) software, Intune on Ubuntu monitors the endpoint compliance status and uses this information to make access decisions for resources protected by Azure Active Directory. In this video, Canonical Product Manager Massimiliano Gori gives us a brief introduction and walks us through Microsoft Intune on Ubuntu.

Azure Unmanaged Disks Soon Deprecated

Microsoft announced in September 2022 that they will be deprecating Azure Unmanaged Disks on September 30, 2025. This means that customers will no longer be able to create or use unmanaged disks after this date. Unmanaged disks are a type of storage that is not managed by Microsoft. This means that customers are responsible for managing all aspects of the disk, including provisioning, backups, and security. Managed disks, on the other hand, are a type of storage that is managed by Microsoft.