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Build and deploy an ASP.NET Core application to Azure

Automating the deployment of a new web application and the release of feature updates goes a long way towards improving the productivity and efficiency of your development team. Another benefit of automation is that it minimizes or even eliminates repeated manual deployments. Manual deployments introduce the risk of human error during this critical part of the development process.

Breaking down complex projects into smaller, shippable increments

Building a complex new product can be scary. What if no-one gets value from it? What if it doesn't work? What if it's hard to change? One way to mitigate these risks is to break down the product into smaller shippable increments, allowing you to capture feedback early and confirming the most important assumptions before fully committing to a solution.

Gartner IT IOCS Highlights: How Accenture Powers Automation Through Observability and StackState's 4T Data Model

Accenture’s vision for value-led, business-aligned operations applies Machine Learning, Automation and Observability to help cloud-hosted and on-premise systems diagnose and heal themselves. The company’s ubiquitous myWizard® platform, used by 100,000+ practitioners at more than 3000 companies, applies StackState’s advanced 4T Observability data model to improve service to Accenture’s customers.

Canonical teams with Xilinx to accelerate the development of adaptive SoCs

December 14, 2021: Canonical and Xilinx Inc. announced today the publication of Ubuntu images optimised for Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ evaluation boards and the production-ready Kria System-on-Modules (SOM). The companies are collaborating to bring enterprise-grade Linux to the world of adaptive SoCs to accelerate the development of new software-defined devices across all IoT verticals.

Wind River Achieves Prestigious Service Capability & Performance Standards Certification

Wind River has earned certification under the prestigious Service Capability & Performance (SCP) Standards. This certification recognizes Wind River Customer Support, part of Wind River Studio, for delivering top-quality service and support by continually meeting a stringent set of performance factors that represent best practices in the industry.
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Follow the engineer: what DevOps teams can teach businesses about agility and efficiency

The pandemic threw out the rulebook on work. And we're still slowly writing a new one. Over the past year and a half, companies have been forced to rethink their processes to accommodate lockdown restrictions and the seismic shift in work they triggered. Remote working rendered old systems obsolete and companies are figuring out how to adapt them.

Cloudsmith By the Numbers 2021

Another amazing year in the books! And even though we’ve done the ‘By the Numbers’ series for a few years now, this year’s numbers are the best (and biggest) yet. But even better than that? The people behind the numbers. Carrying on the growth we saw in 2020, the most important number to highlight this year is the massive increase in awesome Cloudsmithers we added to the team!

Internet of Things and Ubuntu: 2021 highlights

With rising unit shipments and hardware spending, 2021 will go into the record books as a critical year in the ever-increasing adoption of connected devices. Ubuntu – the modern, open-source Linux operating system for the enterprise server, desktop, and cloud – is rapidly becoming the de-facto standard for Internet of Things ( IoT) devices.