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Restricted unprivileged user namespaces are coming to Ubuntu 23.10

Ubuntu Desktop firmly places security at the forefront, and adheres to the principles of security by default. This approach caters to both everyday users and organisations with specific compliance requirements. As such, Ubuntu ensures that its recommended security configurations are equally robust, easy to understand and readily accessible as part of the default user experience.

Use Grafana to Monitor Flask Apps With Graphite

Monitoring the performance and health of web applications is paramount for ensuring a seamless user experience. Flask offers developers the flexibility to build dynamic applications. However, as applications grow in complexity, so does the need for efficient monitoring solutions. This is where Grafana and Graphite come into play.

OpenShift monitoring: Five crucial elements to look out for

Most IT firms build their empire on Kubernetes, for its amazing flexibility and super scalability. RedHat OpenShift Container Platform (formerly OpenShift Enterprise) is a hybrid cloud application platform powered by Kubernetes, which initially only operated on-premise, and has been open to service for more than nine years.

Office 365 Services Overview

Microsoft Office 365, often simply referred to as Office 365, represents a significant shift in the way we approach work in a digital environment. It’s a subscription service that ensures you always have the most up-to-date modern productivity tools from Microsoft. This suite of services and applications goes beyond the traditional software suite to offer a wide range of tools and solutions to modern-day challenges faced by organizations and individuals alike.

What is a smartNIC and how is the technology shaping modern data centres?

Data centres are going through a transformation. Gradually, we will see a new type of equipment attached to servers in almost every data centre: smartNICs are here. They will be the enablers of converged data centres where common infrastructure tasks are offloaded from a host server to attached network interface cards (NIC).

The Top Cloud Cost News From September 2023

When it comes to September’s cloud cost news, cloud-based organizations will have to take a little bit of sour news along with the sweet: Cloud costs continue to rise with inflation, and IBM cloud service users will soon see price hikes, but AWS and Azure have both recently released updates that may help you keep your costs under control. Read on to see how these changes may affect your company in the coming months.

How to reduce Azure costs? | The ultimate tool for Azure cost optimization

Are you struggling to manage and understand your Azure spending? Many businesses face the same struggle in reducing and optimizing their Azure spending. This video discusses the challenges associated with Azure cost optimization and shows how Serverless360 can help you save money on your Azure bill. With Serverless360, you can.

Simplifying Azure for business and support users

Due to Azure's technical complexity, support and business users often face challenges in using the Azure portal. Serverless360 steps in to mitigate these challenges by providing a user-friendly experience for both IT operations and support users, bridging the common challenges in managing Azure-based solutions. In this video by Michael Stephenson, he contrasts the operational and business process views offered by Serverless360 with Azure Portal's deployment-focused perspective.

Atlassian Intelligence features for Bitbucket Cloud are now in beta!

We're excited to announce that Atlassian Intelligence features are now in beta and are available to all workspace admins to activate in their workspace settings. Generative AI in the editor lets you generate, transform, and summarize content while you're writing Pull Request descriptions or comments in the Bitbucket Cloud code review experience.

Tutorial: Monitoring MySQL Server Performance with Prometheus and sql_exporter

Databases in one form or another are almost an inseparable part of modern applications. A popular one among them is MySQL on which this article will focus. But how to monitor MySQL? This article will give an introduction to this topic.