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Enable Sticky Sessions in HAProxy

HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP), the protocol that defines the language browsers use to communicate with web servers, is stateless, meaning that after you make a web request and a server sends back a response, no memory of that interaction remains. To make anything more sophisticated than a static web page work, websites need other ways to remember previous interactions with users.

Kria KR260 - a scalable robotics platform powered with Ubuntu

Today, robotics developers have something to look forward to with the release of AMD Kria™ KR260 Robotics Starter Kit. Robotics is a challenging endeavour. By reducing the barriers to entry on embedding design, AMD aims to accelerate robotics innovations in every industry. The latest addition to the Kria portfolio of adaptive system-on-modules (SOMs) showcases this work.

Announcing support for Windows runners in Bitbucket Pipelines

We are happy to announce that Bitbucket Pipelines now supports self-hosted runners on Windows. You can create a self-hosted runner and run it on your Windows infrastructure to run builds with the.Net framework. Since you're using your own runner, you won’t be charged for any Bitbucket Pipelines build minutes. This self-hosted runner will be non-containerized, allowing your CI/CD step to access the host’s hardware, such as the graphics card or any connected external devices.

Announcing our new Webex Meetings integration

Previously, FireHydrant supported video collaboration tool integrations for Zoom and Google Meet. In response to customer asks, today we are pleased to introduce our new Cisco Webex Meetings integration for all paid plans. With the new integration, teams can automate Webex bridge creation as part of incident response.

GitKraken Client v8.5 Release: Azure DevOps Workspace Support

Working as a team is critical to any mission, whether you’re taking on a galactic empire or pushing your code through your DevOps pipelines. Helping more teams, of all shapes and sizes, work effectively is why we have added support for Azure DevOps repositories in GitKraken Workspaces. We think you will agree, the force is strong with GitKraken Client v8.5 and Azure DevOps Workspaces!

How to monitor your Microsoft Azure data via MetricFire

In this article, we will explain what Microsoft Azure is and how you can monitor its data. We will also learn how to integrate Microsoft Azure with MetricFire. Last, we will look at the benefits of using MetricFire’s monitoring solution with Azure metrics. Try the free trial version of MetricFire and enjoy all the benefits of using our system. Book a demo with our team and discuss in detail the process of integrating Microsoft Azure and MetricFire.

Podcast: Break Things on Purpose | Dan Isla: Astronomical Reliability

It’s time to shoot for the stars with Dan Isla, VP of Product at itopia, to talk about everything from astronomical importance of reliability to time zones on Mars. Dan’s trajectory has been a propulsion of jobs bordering on the science fiction, with a history at NASA, modernizing cloud computing for them, and loads more. Dan discusses the finite room for risk and failure in space travel with an anecdote from his work on Curiosity.

What's New in Rancher 2.6.5?

With KubeCon underway, many of us in the cloud native community are looking forward to learning about the newest innovations from the companies we follow. At SUSE, we’ve been working hard to deliver some new enhancements to Rancher with our 2.6.5 version. I want to briefly take you through the highlights of this release and why we’re excited about these new additions.