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Accessibility testing with Cypress

Effective user experience (UX) design is a key factor in creating compelling software products. UX considers the quality of interaction that users have with a product and takes the user’s point of view as the most sacred thing in software and product design. A great UX includes accessibility, which ensures that software is inclusive and usable by the widest possible audience.

Connect Over Coffee | Cross-Cloud with Megaport Cloud Router (MCR)

Misha Cetrone, VP of Strategic Partnerships at Megaport, shows us that connecting to and moving between multiple public clouds like AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and other leading cloud computing services using Megaport Cloud Router (MCR) is as quick and easy as having a cup of coffee.

Getting started with PromQL

This article will focus on the popular monitoring tool Prometheus, and how to use PromQL. Prometheus uses Golang and allows simultaneous monitoring of many services and systems. In order to enable better monitoring of these multi-component systems, Prometheus has strong built-in data storage and tagging functionalities. To use PromQL to query these metrics you need to understand the architecture of data storage in Prometheus, and how the metric naming and tagging works.

Top 5 Server Monitoring Tools

The need to monitor the health of servers and networks is unanimous. You don't want to be a blind pilot who is headed for an inevitable disaster. Fortunately, there are many open source and commercial tools to help you do the monitoring. As always, good and expensive are not as attractive as good and cheap. So, we've put together the most valuable cloud and windows monitoring tools to get you started.

Seven Models of Cloud Native Applications

In today's cloud-driven landscape, organizations are transitioning from legacy monolithic systems to agile, scalable, and secure cloud-native solutions. Some are even forging new cloud-native applications. However, the concept of cloud-native design remains subjective, lacking a universal blueprint. This blog aims to provide clarity and guidance for designing precise cloud-native applications and container deployment.

Monitoring Weather At The Edge With K3s and Raspberry Pi Devices - Civo Navigate NA 2023

Dive into the world of Edge Computing with Sergio Méndez as he showcases the power of Kubernetes using K3s on Raspberry Pi devices. Learn the distinctions between IoT and Edge Computing and witness a live demonstration of real-time weather monitoring. Perfect for those interested in distributed systems, IoT, and hands-on applications.

Ubuntu updates, releases and repositories explained

Since we launched Ubuntu Pro’s Expanded Security Maintenance for additional packages, and we now integrate more closely with public cloud update management tools, more people have been asking us about the Ubuntu archive and how this is divided and security patched. In this blog we will therefore explain Ubuntu releases, how the Ubuntu archive is divided into different sections and how we deliver Ubuntu updates.

Real-time Ubuntu is now available in AWS Marketplace

Austin, TX, 12 September 2023: Canonical is thrilled to announce the listing of Ubuntu Pro 22.04 LTS with real-time kernel in AWS Marketplace, a digital catalog with thousands of software listings from independent software vendors that make it easy to find, test, buy, and deploy software that runs on Amazon Web Services (AWS).