Unmasking the Resolute Raccoon
The mission is on! Watch closely. Resolute Raccoon makes its move for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS with clever precision and crafty resolve. Behold its pursuit. Ubuntu 26.04 LTS arrives on April 23, 2026.
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Canonical and Ubuntu RISC-V: a 2025 retro and looking forward to 2026
2025 was the year that RISC-V readiness gave way to RISC-V adoption. It’s been quite a journey. What began years ago as early architectural exploration and enablement has matured into real silicon, systems, and deployments. In particular, RVA23 provides a stable and predictable baseline we can align on with our wider ecosystem of partners. At Canonical, we’re committed to making RISC-V a viable option for anyone who wishes to adopt it.
Understanding L1, L2, L3 escalation policy
L1, L2, L3 is one of the most common ways to structure an escalation policy. The idea is simple: an incident triggers and lands with a first responder. If it needs more attention, it moves up the chain to someone with more expertise. This guide explains how each tier works, when this structure makes sense, and what to keep in mind when setting one up.
The Complexity Myth in Test Data Management
This is a guest post from James Hemson. For years, the test data management market has told smaller companies the same story. Test data is complex. You need consultants. Compliance is expensive. Expect a six-month implementation before you see any value. At Redgate we think that's wrong. And we think it's wrong by design. Complexity creates services revenue. It creates switching costs. Most vendors have built their businesses around this.
Feature Friday: New Bird's Eye Report
Stop squinting at data and start driving engineering excellence. In this week’s Feature Friday, Christine from the Cortex Product Team introduces the all-new Birdseye Report (now in private beta). See how to master your engineering standards at scale. We’ve redesigned Birdseye to give you a true "top-down" view of scorecard performance across your entire organization—from the CTO level down to a single service.
Escalation policies for critical incidents
When a critical incident triggers, there’s no time to figure out who to call. That decision needs to be made well before the incident arrives. A dedicated escalation policy for critical incidents gives your team a clear path to follow the moment things go wrong, rather than leaving it to whoever happens to be around. This guide covers the key decisions involved in building that policy.
Top 5 Kubernetes automation tools for streamlined management and efficiency
Looking to automate your Kubernetes environment in 2026? Discover the top automation tools, their weaknesses, and why scaling your infrastructure requires a unified management platform.
The benefits of leadership coaching in the tech industry - with Cindy Gross
Steve is joined by Cindy Gross to discuss leadership coaching in the technology industry – what it is, how it works, and the many benefits it brings. Recorded on-site at PASS Data Community Summit 2025 in Seattle. Cindy is an executive coach and Adaptive Leadership Expert with 25 years in the US tech industry. As a former SQL Server Master (MCM) and expert in cross-organizational navigation at Microsoft, she transformed her focus from complex technical systems to empowering leaders within systemic chaos.
[Webinar] Conquering the Complexity of Self-Hosted Apps with Agentic AI SRE
Most enterprise SaaS products, like Komodor’s Autonomous AI SRE Platform, require installing a remote agent on the customer’s infrastructure, which varies significantly from one organization to another, in terms of architecture, configurations, permissions, processes, and more. This “unmanaged” model creates major blind spots, making daily operations, observability, debugging, and incident response challenging. When failures occur, limited visibility and bespoke systems make root-cause analysis slow, incomplete, or impossible.
Ghosts of Servers Past: The Bare-Metal Comeback Story
Bare-metal. Just reading that word might trigger a physical reaction for some of us. Dusty closets, old server rooms, and loud rigs that never seemed to work quite right. Remember waiting days for IT to provision a server, only to realize your ticket got lost in the shuffle? Or the classic "well, it worked on my machine" excuse right before a production push? Ah, the good old days.