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How we improved testing Ubuntu on WSL - and how you can too!

As the popularity of Windows Subsystem for Linux increases, the Ubuntu development team is committed to delivering a first class experience for Linux developers on Windows. To achieve this we’ve made improvements to our automated testing workflows via the creation of WSL-specific GitHub actions. In this post, Ubuntu WSL engineer Eduard Gómez Escandell talks us through the motivation for this approach and how you can implement these actions for your own CI workflows.

Evolution at the edge: what matters when developing an edge strategy?

The evolution of information technology is governed by how businesses adapt to ever-increasing amounts of data. Those businesses most able to exploit more data, win. Terms such as ‘speed’ and ‘agility’ refer to how a business handles and uses this data. Given the 2.5 quintillion bytes created every day, there is a huge opportunity for businesses to create unassailable leadership.

3 Tips to Improve Your Dockerfile Build time

Building Docker images efficiently is crucial for developers and organizations seeking streamlined development and deployment processes, and it’s a real topic for the 50k developers on Qovery; a few weeks ago, a topic was even open on our forum about it. In this article, we will explore three valuable tips gathered along the way to improve the build time of your Dockerfiles, allowing you to optimize your workflow and save valuable time.

IPoDWDM: Simplify and Save!

IP over DWDM (IPoDWDM) can have a large impact on the total cost of ownership of a network. Disaggregating the transponder solution, and installing the Digital Coherent Optic (DCO) directly in the router can both simplify the design and provide significant cost savings. With the advent of ZR+ optics, and advances in silicon chip efficiency, IPoDWDM is poised to become the new standard.

Graphite for Node.js Monitoring

In this article, we will look at how to monitor Node.js applications using Graphite and StatsD and plot the visualizations on a Grafana dashboard. Node.js is a popular framework for creating microservices. Its asynchronous nature allows for high scalability and low latency, especially for I/O bound tasks. However, it is important to have a proper monitoring setup for any application which is running in a production environment.

Quickly create performance and regression tests from a Postman collection

Speedscale is a Y-Combinator backed startup that helps Kubernetes engineering teams build more resilient and performant containerized apps. Unlike other tools, we use agents/sidecars to record and playback sanitized traffic that you see in prod. With Speedscale, engineers can simulate production conditions, generate load, and mock third party backends modeled after real traffic patterns.

Understanding k3s: Architecture, setup, and uses

If you are looking into the cloud-native world, then the chances of coming across the term “Kubernetes” is high. Kubernetes, also known as K8s, is an open-source system that has the primary responsibility of being a container orchestrator. This has quickly become a lifeline for managing our containerized applications through creating automated deployments.