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Friends of GNOME | Ubuntu Summit 25.10 | Lightning talk

In this talk, Cassidy gives us a look into GNOME, the open source desktop environment project. Cassidy explains how GNOME has developed over time, the support provided by donations, and what could come next for the project. About Cassidy Cassiy James Blaede is a GNOME Foundation Director, Flathub Contributor, and Co-founder & CXO of Elementary. Ubuntu Summit 25.10 is a showcase for the innovative and the ambitious.

GUI testing using YARF | Ubuntu Summit 25.10 | Lightning talk

What do Ubuntu Engineers use to test things? In this talk, Tim Anderrson provides a closer look at YARF, a new internal tool used in Ubuntu Engineering for testing the desktop installer alongside other desktop applications. Tim shares a bit about how YARF works, what the Ubuntu Engineering team plan to use it for from an overarching perspective, and how they plan to integrate this tool with the community.

How Enterprises Modernize and Migrate to the Cloud Safely with Harness Automation

Cloud migration is a multi-layer transformation involving infrastructure, CI/CD, governance, security, and cost management—not just application movement. Enterprises face unique migration challenges due to complex systems, parallel cloud operations, compliance requirements, and tool sprawl. Automation and standardization are critical to reducing risk, manual effort, and operational inconsistency during cloud-to-cloud migrations.

Knowledge Graph + RAG: A Unified Approach to DevOps Intelligence

Knowledge graphs and RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) are complementary techniques for enhancing large language models with external knowledge, and each brings unique strengths for DevOps use cases. While they are often mentioned together, they are fundamentally different systems, and combining them delivers far better outcomes than relying on either approach alone.

The 2025 Year in Review (and what's coming soon)

Every year is a big year for Bitbucket, but in 2025, we delivered transformative changes that cap off years of work to make Bitbucket Cloud the secure, scalable, cloud-first standard for large engineering teams around the world. Today, 15M developers build on Bitbucket, including all of Atlassian’s 10,000-strong engineering organization, and Bitbucket Pipelines runs more than 1 billion build minutes per month.

A framework for measuring effective AI adoption in engineering

These days, engineering leaders find themselves caught between a rock and a hard place. On paper, AI adoption looks like an unqualified success. Developers are shipping more code faster than ever, pull request volumes are up, and teams report feeling more productive. Their leaders rush to LinkedIn to share their plans to scale adoption because their teams are just so much more efficient. But then, the incidents and bug reports start piling up.

From Downtime to Stability: The Role of Managed IT in Modern Operations

Operational downtime has become one of the most expensive risks modern organizations face. A single system failure can halt workflows, expose security gaps, and drain revenue within hours. And as businesses in Long Beach & beyond grow more dependent on digital systems, the margin for IT failure keeps shrinking. Yet many operations teams still rely on reactive IT models, fixing issues only after they cause disruption.

How to Protect a Server from DDoS Attacks: 10 Practical Ways That Actually Work

DDoS attacks are no longer exotic weapons used only against banks, governments, or global tech giants. Today, a small online store, a SaaS startup, or even a personal blog running on a VPS can become a target. The barrier to launching an attack has dropped dramatically, while the damage such attacks can cause has only grown. Any server connected to the internet is exposed by default - the only real question is how prepared it is.

Harness Database DevOps Now Supports Google AlloyDB

Harness Database DevOps now natively supports Google AlloyDB, enabling enterprises to manage PostgreSQL-compatible schema changes with CI/CD, GitOps, and policy-driven governance. Teams gain faster, safer, and fully auditable database delivery while reducing operational risk and manual overhead across environments. As organizations double down on cloud modernization, Google Cloud’s AlloyDB for PostgreSQL is quickly becoming the preferred engine for mission-critical applications.

Leading Open Source Teams w/ Daniel Roe

In this episode, Daniel Roe, Lead Maintainer of the Nuxt framework, discusses his journey from studying law and theology to leading a major open-source framework. He explains Nuxt's unique governance and how Nuxt manages contributions through volunteer-driven work, LLM-powered issue triage, and creating welcoming spaces for newcomers to open source. This week, our chat touches on a variety of topics including.