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What is an Ubuntu LTS release?

Come April 23rd 2020, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS will be available. It will be the first LTS version of Ubuntu since the 18.04 release, and in this blog, I want to answer the common question, what is an LTS? For a deeper look at the benefits of using an Ubuntu LTS, there’s a whitepaper for that, for anything else, this post will answer your questions.

6 Common Mistakes in AWS EC2 and Azure Cloud VM Optimization

No matter what’s driving your move to an AWS or Azure cloud, two things are true. One, you don’t want to under-provision, which could create performance and availability issues. And two, you don’t want to overpay, because no one ever wants to do that. One of the key decisions you must make is which Amazon EC2 or Microsoft Azure virtual machine instance configuration you need. It’s a scoping exercise, but several factors make this easier said than done.

appfleet edge platform

A simple to use managed platform to deploy Docker containers to multiple locations at the same time and handle the complexity of syncing the config, deploying and routing the traffic. Just provide the docker image and regions you want to deploy. The system will create the cluster, setup monitoring, smart routing of your traffic and healthchecks to ensure uptime and 0-downtime deployments.